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A direct gaze enhances face perception

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 13, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Gaze direction is significant for the processing of visual information from the human face. Researchers in an Academy of Finland funded research project have discovered that the visual system of the brain processes another ...


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Birds can tell if you are watching them -- because they are watching you

Biology /

created Apr 30, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (29) | comments 1

In humans, the eyes are said to be the ‘window to the soul’, conveying much about a person’s emotions and intentions. New research demonstrates for the first time that birds also respond to a human’s gaze.


Why does the world appear stable while our eyes move?

Biology /

created Feb 15, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (22) | comments 1

Whenever we shift our gaze, attention is directed to a new target. This shift in attention causes a brief compression of visual space, according to a study published February 15 in the open-access journal PLoS Computational Bi ...


A frown or a smile? Children with autism can't discern

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created May 05, 2007 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 0

When we have a conversation with someone, we not only hear what they say, we see what they say. Eyes can smolder or twinkle. Gazes can be direct or shifty. “Reading” these facial expressions gives context and meaning to the ...


Direct gaze makes you more attractive

Direct gaze makes you more attractive

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 07, 2007 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (32) | comments 1

Looking directly at someone makes you more attractive to them according to research published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, today (Wednesday 7 November, 2007).


It takes nerves for flies to keep a level head

It takes nerves for flies to keep a level head

Biology /

created Jul 22, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 0

The nerve connections that keep a fly's gaze stable during complex aerial manoeuvres, enabling it to respond quickly to obstacles in its flight path, are revealed in new detail in research published today ...


Babies see it coming

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Do infants only start to crawl once they are physically able to see danger coming? Or is it that because they are more mobile, they develop the ability to sense looming danger? According to Ruud van der Weel and Audrey van ...


Sound adds speed to visual perception

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 12, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

The traditional view of individual brain areas involved in perception of different sensory stimuli—i.e., one brain region involved in hearing and another involved in seeing—has been thrown into doubt in recent years. A new ...


Researcher finds that women are speaking up

Other Sciences / Other

created Aug 01, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- There's a whole industry of books and seminars that hinge on the premise that women somehow need to be "fixed" when it comes to communication and must change the way they talk and behave to advance their ...


Brain’s 'fear center' may underlie autistic behaviors

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 13, 2006 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The brain's emotional center is unusually small in autistic males with the most severe behavioral impairments, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers reported this month.


Is hepatic differentiation of embryonic stem cells induced by valproic acid and cytokines?

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Embryonic stem (ES) cells, known for their capacity to proliferate indefinitely and differentiate into almost all types of cells including hepatocytes, have raised the hope of cellular replacement therapy for liver failure. ...


Bioengineers succeed in producing plastic without the use of fossil fuels

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (17) | comments 0

A team of pioneering South Korean scientists have succeeded in producing the polymers used for everyday plastics through bioengineering, rather than through the use of fossil fuel based chemicals. This groundbreaking research, ...


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YouTube tries to help media find more free video

Technology / Internet

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- YouTube is trying to help shrinking newsrooms expand their video coverage without increasing their payrolls.


Nanoparticles go platinum: NCEM instruments provide key images

Nanoparticles go platinum: NCEM instruments provide key images

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

At Berkeley Lab's National Center for Electron Microscopy it was revealed that single-stranded DNA can disperse bundles of single-walled carbon nanotubes into individual tubes and serve as guideposts for synthesizing ...


Free e-samples of prescription drugs: At what cost?

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Search the Internet to learn about your asthma, high cholesterol or other common disorder, and odds are you'll be directed to a pharmaceutical company-sponsored Web homepage. There you'll often find an offer for a free sample ...