Ultrasound shown to exert remote control of brain circuits
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In a twist on nontraditional uses of ultrasound, a group of neuroscientists at Arizona State University has developed pulsed ultrasound techniques that can remotely stimulate brain circuit activity. Their findings, published ...
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Locksmiths, Computer Scientists Say
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 29, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- UC San Diego computer scientists have built a software program that can perform key duplication without having the key. Instead, the computer scientists only need a photograph of the key.
Turbocharged Nanomotors
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Nanorobots that are introduced into the body to eradicate tumor cells or clean out clogged arteries are not just science fiction; they are a realistic vision of the technological possibilities of the not-so-distant ...
Conscientious People Live Longer
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 29, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Conscientious people live longer, according to a study by University of California, Riverside researchers that appears in the latest issue of Health Psychology (vol. 27, 2008), the journal of the American ...
Methane gas levels begin to increase again
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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The amount of methane in Earth's atmosphere shot up in 2007, bringing to an end a period of about a decade in which atmospheric levels of the potent greenhouse gas were essentially stable, according to a team led by MIT researchers.
Scientists find evidence of tsunamis on Indian Ocean shores long before 2004
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 29, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A quarter-million people were killed when a tsunami inundated Indian Ocean coastlines the day after Christmas in 2004. Now scientists have found evidence that the event was not a first-time ...
Breakthrough may ease electronics assembly
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Northeastern have demonstrated a way to use single-walled carbon nanotubes, at left, to ease large-scale manufacture of flat-panel displays and electronic memory devices.
Grapes may aid a bunch of heart risk factors, animal study finds
Biology /
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Could eating grapes help fight high blood pressure related to a salty diet? And could grapes calm other factors that are also related to heart diseases such as heart failure? A new University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center ...
Nanoscale Dimensioning Is Fast, Cheap with New Optical Technique
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A novel technique under development at the National Institute of Standards and Technology uses a relatively inexpensive optical microscope to quickly and cheaply analyze nanoscale dimensions ...
T.rex 'followed its nose' while hunting
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Although we know quite a bit about the lifestyle of dinosaur; where they lived, what they ate, how they walked, not much was known about their sense of smell, until now.
Brain's 'hate circuit' identified
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People who view pictures of someone they hate display activity in distinct areas of the brain that, together, may be thought of as a 'hate circuit', according to new research by scientists at UCL (University College London).
Sniffing Out a Better Chemical Sensor
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Marrying a sensitive detector technology capable of distinguishing hundreds of different chemical compounds with a pattern-recognition module that mimics the way animals recognize odors, researchers ...
Researcher uncovers treatment for E.coli
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It couldn't be more ironic. Just as the number of people in North Bay, Ont., made ill by a recent E.coli outbreak, topped 200, a University of Alberta professor has announced a breakthrough in development ...
Researchers find new chemical key that could unlock hundreds of new antibiotics
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Chemistry researchers at The University of Warwick and the John Innes Centre, have found a novel signalling molecule that could be a key that will open up hundreds of new antibiotics unlocking them from the ...
'Security-on-a-Stick' to protect consumers and banks from the most sophisticated hacker attacks
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Resembling a memory stick with an integrated display, a prototype USB device developed at IBM's Zurich Research Lab brings a new level of security to online banking for consumers. Pilot devices ...
