http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (PhysOrg.com) -- Similarities between webs of terrorists and networks of rescue personnel may seem unlikely. To an eclectic collaboration of engineers and social scientists, the connections are not only possible, but a potential source of deep insights. http://www.physorg.com/news180371964.html Other Sciences Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:30:02 EST news180371964 (PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to the workings of the Web, the brain, or a social network, physics finds universal truths. http://www.physorg.com/news179766565.html Physics Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:10:09 EST news179766565 (PhysOrg.com) -- Thanks to the Internet and online social networks (OSNs) news and gossip now spread literally like wildfire -- uncontrollably and seemingly without any order. But according to one Ryerson researcher, there is method to the madness. With the right mathematical model, you could spot when and where a story starts, then watch as it skips across the Internet. One day, similar models could even detect and track terrorist cells within OSNs. http://www.physorg.com/news179607879.html Other Sciences Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:20:01 EST news179607879 Scientists from the University of Zurich have discovered the physiological mechanisms in the brain that underlie broken promises. Patterns of brain activity even enable predicting whether someone will break a promise. The results of the study conducted by Dr. Thomas Baumgartner and Professor Ernst Fehr, both of the University of Zurich, and Professor Urs Fischbacher of the University of Konstanz, will be published in the journal Neuron on December 10, 2009. http://www.physorg.com/news179585680.html Medicine & Health Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:20:01 EST news179585680 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, are challenging long-held beliefs that human beings are wired to be selfish. In a wide range of studies, social scientists are amassing a growing body of evidence to show we are evolving to become more compassionate and collaborative in our quest to survive and thrive. http://www.physorg.com/news179512429.html Other Sciences Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:34:54 EST news179512429 "Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile?" wrote author Lynn Hecht Schafran. The answer, according to an article in the Journal of Vision, may lie in our interpretation of facial expressions. http://www.physorg.com/news179170846.html Medicine & Health Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:42:02 EST news179170846 A novel early intervention program for very young children with autism - some as young as 18 months - is effective for improving IQ, language ability, and social interaction, a comprehensive new study has found. http://www.physorg.com/news178781035.html Medicine & Health Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:40:02 EST news178781035 A high-fat, high-sugar diet could have the same effect on brain chemistry as mood-altering drugs, giving scientific support to the craving for "comfort food", Australian researchers said Tuesday. http://www.physorg.com/news178270511.html Medicine & Health Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:20:02 EST news178270511 (PhysOrg.com) -- Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are neurodevelopmental disorders marked by impaired social interactions, restricted interests, repetitive behaviors, and communication impairment, which persist throughout a person's lifetime. The ASD prevalence rate--the number of individuals diagnosed with autism--has been steadily increasing over time. http://www.physorg.com/news176582022.html Medicine & Health Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:10:01 EST news176582022 (PhysOrg.com) -- If your best friend is a guy from "The Office" or a young doctor on "Grey's Anatomy," you may be relying too much on TV shows to fill a social void in your life. http://www.physorg.com/news175970817.html Other Sciences Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:48:06 EST news175970817 (PhysOrg.com) -- Psychology researchers have found the sound of the human voice can be recognised by the brain in less than one fifth of a second. http://www.physorg.com/news175969377.html Medicine & Health Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:40:01 EST news175969377 Positive social interactions exist within Drosophila: when in a group, Drosophila flies have better memory than when they are isolated. Thomas Preat's team at the Laboratoire de Neurobiologie (CNRS, France) has recently highlighted this phenomenon through olfactory memory tests. http://www.physorg.com/news175279636.html Biology Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:00:01 EST news175279636 Music serves as a natural and non-invasive intervention for patients with severe neurological disorders to promote long-term memory, social interaction and communication. However, there is currently no plausible explanation of its neural basis for why and how music affects physical and psychosocial responses. http://www.physorg.com/news175257288.html Medicine & Health Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:00:01 EST news175257288 Standing out in a crowd is better than blending in, at least if you're a paper wasp in a colony where fights between nest-mates determine social status. http://www.physorg.com/news174827689.html Biology Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:15:46 EST news174827689 Seismic surveys used for oil and gas prospecting on the sea floor are a disturbance for blue whales, the world's biggest animal and one of its rarest species, biologists reported on Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news172909374.html Biology Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:50:04 EST news172909374 (PhysOrg.com) -- According to recent studies, young children learn best through social interaction. Andrew Meltzoff and his colleagues at the University of Washington are studying an emerging field called the "Science of Learning," which re-evaluates how children learn in formal and informal settings. http://www.physorg.com/news171869508.html Other Sciences Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:32:24 EST news171869508 (PhysOrg.com) -- Every movement and every thought requires the passing of specific information between networks of nerve cells. To improve a skill or to learn something new entails more efficient or a greater number of cell contacts. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Martinsried could now show, together with an international team of researchers, that certain cells in the brain, the astrocytes, actively influence this information exchange. http://www.physorg.com/news171547807.html Medicine & Health Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:10:53 EST news171547807 (PhysOrg.com) -- Folk wisdom usually has it that "seeing is believing," but new research suggests that "believing is seeing," too - at least when it comes to perceiving other people's emotions. http://www.physorg.com/news171125758.html Medicine & Health Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:57:06 EST news171125758 In a finding that sheds new light on the neural mechanisms involved in social behavior, neuroscientists at the California Institute of Technology have pinpointed the brain structure responsible for our sense of personal space. http://www.physorg.com/news170862623.html Medicine & Health Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:51:08 EST news170862623 A preliminary study suggests that a negative, inhibited personality type (type D personality) appears to predict an increased risk of death over four years among patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD), according to a report in the August issue of Archives of Surgery. http://www.physorg.com/news169750550.html Medicine & Health Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:56:36 EST news169750550 The way people with autism see and process the body language of others could be preventing them from gauging people's feelings, according to new research. http://www.physorg.com/news168675525.html Medicine & Health Wed, 05 Aug 2009 07:22:37 EST news168675525 To understand how climate change may affect species survival, we need to understand how climate influences their time-keeping. http://www.physorg.com/news168352942.html Biology Sat, 01 Aug 2009 13:43:06 EST news168352942 (PhysOrg.com) -- Education is on the cusp of a transformation because of recent scientific findings in neuroscience, psychology, and machine learning that are converging to create foundations for a new science of learning. http://www.physorg.com/news166972974.html Medicine & Health Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:23:16 EST news166972974 What is going on in teenagers' brains as their drive for peer approval begins to eclipse their family affiliations? Brain scans of teens sizing each other up reveal an emotion circuit activating more in girls as they grow older, but not in boys. The study by Daniel Pine, M.D., of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), part of National Institutes of Health, and colleagues, shows how emotion circuitry diverges in the male and female brain during a developmental stage in which girls are at increased risk for developing mood and anxiety disorders. http://www.physorg.com/news166866979.html Medicine & Health Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:56:40 EST news166866979 Researchers at North Carolina State University and the Georgia Institute of Technology have received a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study whether and how video games can boost memory and thinking skills in the elderly - and then to use their findings to develop a prototype video game to do just that. http://www.physorg.com/news165564750.html Medicine & Health Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:12:58 EST news165564750 Mice who inherit a particular chromosomal duplication from their fathers show many behaviors associated with human autism, researchers report in the June 26th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press Publication. The duplicated chromosomal region in mice is the equivalent of human chromosome 15q11-13, the most frequent cytogenetic abnormality observed in autism, accounting for some five percent of all cases. http://www.physorg.com/news165152905.html Biology Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:49:09 EST news165152905 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists trying to understand how the brains of animals evolve have found that evolutionary changes in brain structure reflect the types of social interactions and environmental stimuli different species face. http://www.physorg.com/news164993468.html Biology Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:32:01 EST news164993468 (PhysOrg.com) -- Social problems like bullying and stereotyping involve thoughts, feelings and reactions that resist change. New research shows that when students play active roles in virtual dramas their attitudes and behaviour can change. http://www.physorg.com/news164897370.html Technology Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:50:08 EST news164897370 Baboons whose mothers have strong relationships with other females are much more likely to survive to adulthood than baboons reared by less social mothers, according to a new study by researchers at UCLA, the University of Pennsylvania and other institutions. http://www.physorg.com/news163844908.html Biology Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:29:02 EST news163844908 Over thousands of years, humans have evolved to naturally understand things like facial expressions and social interactions. But a University of Missouri researcher has found there is an ever-widening gap between what humans can naturally learn and what they need to learn to be successful adults in today's modern society. Schools have traditionally helped bridge the gap between evolution and new knowledge, but in the U.S. more may need to be done. http://www.physorg.com/news163682285.html Medicine & Health Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:18:42 EST news163682285