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. It's rare when real-world events perfectly mirror experiments that scientists are conducting. That's why neuroscientists at the University of Washington were delighted at the reactions of former President George W. Bush and Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki when an Iraqi reporter flung his shoes toward the two men during a Baghdad news conference. http://www.physorg.com/news163942230.html Biology Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:30:50 EST news163942230 Science has proven what baseball players have known for more than a hundred years, the curve ball is more powerful than the brain. http://www.physorg.com/news162571770.html Medicine & Health Tue, 26 May 2009 15:49:59 EST news162571770 The visual system has limited capacity and cannot process everything that falls onto the retina. Instead, the brain relies on attention to bring salient details into focus and filter out background clutter. Two recent studies by researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, one study employing computational modeling techniques and the other experimental techniques, have helped to unravel the mechanisms underlying attention. http://www.physorg.com/news157210633.html Medicine & Health Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:37:44 EST news157210633 Dollar signs for eyes - cartoonists have been drawing them for years, and the artists, while whimsical, may have been onto something. According to new research from UC San Diego, areas of the brain responsible for vision respond more strongly to objects of value. http://www.physorg.com/news149344893.html Medicine & Health Wed, 24 Dec 2008 12:41:33 EST news149344893 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 as color and the direction the handle is pointing. As the information about an object is sent further along the various brain pathways, more and more details are noticed -- in that way, a simple door handle turns into a silver-plated-antique-style-door-handle-facing-right. Information about the handle also reaches the part of your brain responsible for planning movements (known as the pre-motor area), and it comes up with a set of motions, allowing you to turn the handle with your right hand and open the door. http://www.physorg.com/news148828835.html Medicine & Health Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:20:35 EST news148828835 Computational neuroscientists at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a computational model that provides insight into the function of the brain's visual cortex and the information processing that enables people to perceive contours and surfaces, and understand what they see in the world around them. http://www.physorg.com/news146321002.html Medicine & Health Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:43:22 EST news146321002 Famous works of abstract art achieve popularity by using shapes that resonate with the neural mechanisms in the brain linked to visual information, a psychologist at the University of Liverpool has discovered. http://www.physorg.com/news146139025.html Medicine & Health Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:10:25 EST news146139025 A universal bias in the way people perceive moving objects means that tennis referees are more likely to make mistakes when they call balls "out" than when they call them "in," according to a new report in the October 28th issue of Current Biology, a Cell Press publication. Because recent rule changes allow professional tennis players to challenge the refs' calls, athletes could exploit the new findings to their advantage, according to researchers at the University of California, Davis. http://www.physorg.com/news144328896.html Biology Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:21:36 EST news144328896 An international research collaboration including research teams from the Children's Hospital in Boston (USA), King's College London and the Peninsula Medical School, has identified a gene that, when mutated, causes Duane syndrome. The research is published in the latest edition of Science. http://www.physorg.com/news136127562.html Medicine & Health Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:12:42 EST news136127562 Since the idea of using DNA to create faster, smaller, and more powerful computers originated in 1994, scientists have been scrambling to develop successful ways to use genetic code for computation. Now, new research from a professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute suggests that if we want to carry out artificial computations, all we have to do is literally look around. http://www.physorg.com/news136036573.html Technology Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:56:13 EST news136036573