Medical myths for the holiday season: True, false or unproven?
Dec 18, 2008 |
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Does sugar make kids hyperactive? Do we lose most of our body heat through our head? Will eating at night make you fat? Do suicides increase over the holidays? Are poinsettias toxic? Hangovers cures, do they ...
Humans and chimps register faces by using similar brain regions
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Chimpanzees recognize their pals by using some of the same brain regions that switch on when humans register a familiar face, according to a report published online on December 18th in Current Biology, a Cell ...
Study indicates how we make proper movements
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 18, 2008 |
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When you first notice a door handle, your brain has already been hard at work. Your visual system first sees the handle, then it sends information to various parts of the brain, which go on to decipher out the details, such ...
When scientists take on science education
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A greater commitment by science faculty to focus on science education could drive education reform at universities and K-12 schools, according to a new report by a team of five researchers from the California State University ...
Life on Mars? Researchers say elusive mineral bolsters chances
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 18, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Over the last several years, scientists have built a very convincing case that Mars hosted water, at least early in its history. Recent observations from the Mars Phoenix lander and other ...
New label-free method tracks molecules and drugs in live cells
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Dec 18, 2008 |
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A new type of highly sensitive microscopy developed by researchers at Harvard University could greatly expand the limits of modern biomedical imaging, allowing scientists to track the location of minuscule ...
Staying warm in winter is more challenging for the elderly
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1980, when America was still dealing with the oil crisis from the previous decade, Ann Kolanowski, Elouise Ross Eberly Professor of Nursing at Penn State and director of the John A. Harford Foundation ...
BaBar Collaboration Completes Data Reprocessing
Dec 18, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- One might think that processing the records of 22 billion electron and positron collisions once would be enough. But not so for the BaBar collaboration, which this week announced the completion ...
MRI brain scans accurate in early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease
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MRI scans that detect shrinkage in specific regions of the mid-brain attacked by Alzheimer's disease accurately diagnose the neurodegenerative disease, even before symptoms interfere with daily function, a ...
Researchers Track How Biology's Army Is Mobilized
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Like a well-trained army, the fundamental biological processes of organisms are coordinated through a hierarchy of finely tuned molecular commands. In a new paper published online Dec. 18 in the journal Genes an ...
Calit2's Reefbot Designed to Autonomously Monitor Ocean's Disappearing Coral Reefs
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 18, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The world's coral reefs are vanishing at an alarming rate, but the oceanographers who study the underlying causes of reef destruction are often hindered by slow, tedious and sometimes dangerous ...
It's a shocker for rockers
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Head banging increases the risk of head and neck injury, but the effects may be lessened with reduced head and neck motion, head banging to lower tempo songs or to every second beat, and using protective equipment such as ...
Better patient outcomes with drug eluting stents
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Patients receiving drug eluting stents (DES) — stents coated with medication to prevent narrowing of the artery — as part of an angioplasty had better outcomes one year later than patients with bare metal stents, according ...
People more likely to attend cancer screening close to Christmas and birthdays
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Cancer screening programmes could increase attendance by inviting people for screening close to birthdays or other annual milestones such as Christmas and the New Year, finds a study in the Christmas issue published on bmj.com ...
First experimental evidence for speedy adaptation to pesticides by worm species
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Scientists at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia (IGC) and the Faculty of Science of the University of Lisbon, in Portugal, have shown that populations of the worm Caenhorabditis elegans become resistance to pesticides in 20 ...
