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A research project led by Dr Joydeep Bhattacharya at Goldsmiths, University of London has shown that it is possible to influence emotional evaluation of visual stimuli by listening to musical excerpts before the evaluation. http://www.physorg.com/news160850020.html Medicine & Health Wed, 06 May 2009 17:34:36 EST news160850020 (PhysOrg.com) -- Research by a theoretical physicist at Indiana University shows that the crusts of neutron stars are 10 billion times stronger than steel or any other of the earth's strongest metal alloys. http://www.physorg.com/news160827120.html Space & Earth Wed, 06 May 2009 11:12:28 EST news160827120 (PhysOrg.com) -- The pulsing of a single neuron can switch a brain`s waves from the equivalent of a big ocean swell to ripples on a pond, according to new research from Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Yang Dan of the University of California, Berkeley. http://www.physorg.com/news160407260.html Medicine & Health Fri, 01 May 2009 14:34:46 EST news160407260 A persistent school of thought in recent years has held that so-called "chevrons," large U- or V-shaped formations found in some of the world's coastal areas, are evidence of megatsunamis caused by asteroids or comets slamming into the ocean. http://www.physorg.com/news160212894.html Space & Earth Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:35:13 EST news160212894 It is said that each of us marches to the beat of a different drum, but new Stanford University research suggests that brain cells need to follow specific rhythms that must be kept for proper brain functioning. These rhythms don't appear to be working correctly in such diseases as schizophrenia and autism, and now two papers due to be published online this week by the journals Nature and Science demonstrate that precisely tuning the oscillation frequencies of certain neurons can affect how the brain processes information and implements feelings of reward. http://www.physorg.com/news159973996.html Medicine & Health Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:13:41 EST news159973996 Scientists have studied high-frequency brain waves, known as gamma oscillations, for more than 50 years, believing them crucial to consciousness, attention, learning and memory. Now, for the first time, MIT researchers and colleagues have found a way to induce these waves by shining laser light directly onto the brains of mice. http://www.physorg.com/news159973187.html Medicine & Health Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:00:19 EST news159973187 Up to 30,000 residents and tourists could be under threat from a newly discovered tsunami risk in the Caribbean, according to experts in disaster risk management. http://www.physorg.com/news159690411.html Space & Earth Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:27:16 EST news159690411 (PhysOrg.com) -- A survey by the Chandra X-ray observatory has revealed in detail, for the first time, the effects of a shock wave blasted through a galaxy by powerful jets of plasma emanating from a supermassive black hole at the galactic core. The observations of Centaurus A, the nearest galaxy that contains these jets, have enabled astronomers to revise dramatically their picture of how jets affect the galaxies in which they live. The results will be presented on Wednesday 22nd April at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science in Hatfield by Dr Judith Croston of the University of Hertfordshire. http://www.physorg.com/news159636527.html Space & Earth Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:29:53 EST news159636527 (AP) -- The last time Congress passed major environmental laws, acid rain was destroying lakes and forests, polluted rivers were on fire and smog was choking people in some cities. http://www.physorg.com/news159344981.html Space & Earth Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:30:03 EST news159344981 Today, humans perform visual inspections every two years of most of the nation's older bridges. But with a scarcity of inspectors and tens of thousands of bridges, that process can be long and laborious. http://www.physorg.com/news159116064.html Technology Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:55:04 EST news159116064 (Santa Barbara, Calif.) -- In the quest for quantum information processing, diamonds may be a physicist's best friend. http://www.physorg.com/news159024814.html Physics Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:37:09 EST news159024814 Propagation of earthquake waves within the Earth is not uniform. Experiments indicate that the velocity of shear waves (s-waves) in Earth`s lower mantle between 660 and 2900 km depth is strongly dependent on the orientation of ferropericlase. In the latest issue of Science (Vol. 325, 10.04.2009), researchers from the German Research Center for Geosciences GFZ, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, the University of Bayreuth, and Arizona State University report unexpected properties of ferropericlase, which is presumably the second most abundant mineral of the lower mantle. http://www.physorg.com/news158840427.html Space & Earth Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:21:05 EST news158840427 (PhysOrg.com) -- A groundbreaking new loudspeaker, less than 0.25mm thick, has been developed by University of Warwick engineers, it's flat, flexible, could be hung on a wall like a picture, and its particular method of sound generation could make public announcements in places like passenger terminals clearer, crisper, and easier to hear. http://www.physorg.com/news157823827.html Technology Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:57:30 EST news157823827 A new mathematical formula that could be used to give advance warning of where a tsunami is likely to hit and how destructive it will be has been worked out by scientists at Newcastle University. http://www.physorg.com/news157785128.html Other Sciences Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:13:06 EST news157785128 (PhysOrg.com) -- `The concept of matter waves is at the heart of quantum mechanics,` Oliver Morsch tells PhysOrg.com. `At the beginning of the last century, scientists discovered that solid particles could exhibit properties of waves, such as interference and diffraction. Until then, it was assumed that only light behaved as a wave. But in the quantum world everything is basically a wave.` http://www.physorg.com/news157375449.html Physics Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:25:06 EST news157375449 (PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time ever, a modern dance company has performed to music generated from seismic data, recorded from four volcanoes across three continents. This unique event was facilitated by DANTE, the provider of high speed research and education networks, the two distributed computing projects, Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) and E-science grid facility for Europe and Latin America (EELA), as well as CityDance Ensemble, a prestigious company based in Washington, DC. http://www.physorg.com/news157308512.html Other Sciences Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:49:14 EST news157308512 Duke University chemists are using modified magnetic resonance imaging to see molecular changes inside people's bodies that could signal health problems such as cancer. http://www.physorg.com/news157297184.html Chemistry Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:40:18 EST news157297184 Einstein@Home, based at the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee (UWM) and the Albert Einstein Institute (AEI) in Germany, is one of the world's largest public volunteer distributed computing projects. More than 200,000 people have signed up for the project and donated time on their computers to search gravitational wave data for signals from unknown pulsars. http://www.physorg.com/news157113935.html Space & Earth Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:45:58 EST news157113935 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have, for the first time, detected giant twisting waves in the lower atmosphere of the Sun, shedding light on the mystery of the Sun's corona (the region around the Sun, extending more than one million kilometres from its surface) having a vastly higher temperature than its surface. The findings of this investigation, which will help us understand more about the turbulent solar weather and its affect on our planet, are published today in Science. http://www.physorg.com/news156707105.html Space & Earth Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:45:39 EST news156707105 When musicians play along together it isn't just their instruments that are in time - their brain waves are too. Research published in the online open access journal BMC Neuroscience shows how EEG readouts from pairs of guitarists become more synchronized, a finding with wider potential implications for how our brains interact when we do. http://www.physorg.com/news156518053.html Medicine & Health Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:14:39 EST news156518053 By reversing a process that converts electrical signals into sounds heard out of a cell phone, researchers may have a new tool to enhance the way computer chips, LEDs and transistors are built. http://www.physorg.com/news156432003.html Physics Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:20:28 EST news156432003 (PhysOrg.com) -- Shock waves are a well tested phenomenon on a large scale, but scientists at the Argonne National Laboratory and their collaborators from Wayne State University and Cornell University have made a breakthrough that reveals the interaction between shockwaves created by high-pressure supersonic fuel jets. http://www.physorg.com/news156088475.html Physics Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:55:12 EST news156088475 (PhysOrg.com) -- Tiny, ubiquitous particles in the atmosphere may play a profound role in regulating global climate. But the scientists who study these particles -- called aerosols -- have long struggled to accurately measure their composition, size, and global distribution. A new detection technique and a new satellite instrument developed by NASA scientists, the Aerosol Polarimetry Sensor (APS), should help ease the struggle. http://www.physorg.com/news156086477.html Space & Earth Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:22:26 EST news156086477 (PhysOrg.com) -- Recent research by scientists in Italy and France shows that that single molecules have the ability to store information via their magnetic state. Their work is a first step toward a new generation of ultra-compact data storage technologies based on individual molecules. http://www.physorg.com/news155820171.html Physics Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:23:28 EST news155820171 A freak wave at sea is a terrifying sight. Seven stories tall, wildly unpredictable, and incredibly destructive, such waves have been known to emerge from calm waters and swallow ships whole. But rogue waves of light -- rare and explosive flare-ups that are mathematically similar to their oceanic counterparts -- have recently been tamed by a group of researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). http://www.physorg.com/news155478110.html Physics Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:22:15 EST news155478110 J.K. Rowling may not have realized just how close Harry Potter's invisibility cloak was to becoming a reality when she introduced it in the first book of her best-selling fictional series in 1998. Scientists, however, have made huge strides in the past few years in the rapidly developing field of cloaking. Ranked the number five breakthrough of the year by Science magazine in 2006, cloaking involves making an object invisible or undetectable to electromagnetic waves. http://www.physorg.com/news155477880.html Other Sciences Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:18:28 EST news155477880 (PhysOrg.com) -- Whether slalom or alpine skiing, competitive skiing is all about thousandths of a second. Hence, professional athletes must constantly refine their technique. Small radio transmitters will make it possible to analyze pros` habits more closely. http://www.physorg.com/news155326298.html Technology Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:12:27 EST news155326298 (PhysOrg.com) -- Lip reading is a critical means of communication for many deaf people, but it has a drawback: Certain consonants (for example, p and b) can be nearly impossible to distinguish by sight alone. http://www.physorg.com/news154884567.html Technology Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:30:28 EST news154884567 (PhysOrg.com) -- First responders could boost their radio communications quickly at a disaster site by setting out just four extra transmitters in a random arrangement to significantly increase the signal power at the receiver, according to theoretical analyses, simulations and proof-of-concept experiments performed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. http://www.physorg.com/news154769323.html Physics Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:29:31 EST news154769323 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Aberdeen have unlocked the details of a communication process that helps to generate the brainwaves that allow us to think and learn. http://www.physorg.com/news154621190.html Medicine & Health Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:20:22 EST news154621190