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Girl's progress after pioneering brain surgery gives hope to other parents

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Lexi Haas is awakening into a world of new possibilities. Miracle by tiny miracle, she is making her body do what she wants -- instead of her body always controlling her. She looked up at her mother a few weeks ago, pursed ...


Gullies and Flow Features on Crater Wall

Gullies and Flow Features on Crater Wall

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- This image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a sample of the variety and complexity of processes that may occur ...


Waseda Flutist Robot

Musical robots perform duets (w/ Video)

Electronics / Robotics

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A flute playing robot unveiled by Waseda University last year has been joined by a robot saxophonist in a Classical music duet. The aim of the project was to design robots that could respond ...


Angraecum sesquipedale ('Comet Orchid')

The evolution of orchids

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Charles Darwin and many other scientists have long been puzzled by the evolution of orchids, the largest and most diverse family of flowering plants on Earth. Now genetic sequencing is giving ...


CU-Boulder map of human bacterial diversity shows wide interpersonal differences

Map of Human Bacterial Diversity Shows Wide Interpersonal Differences

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Colorado at Boulder team has developed the first atlas of bacterial diversity across the human body, charting wide variations in microbe populations that live in different ...


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Babies' language learning starts from the womb

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- From their very first days, newborns' cries already bear the mark of the language their parents speak, reveals a new study published online on November 5th in Current Biology, a Cell Press ...


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Nothing But Net: The Physics of Free-Throw Shooting

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Pay attention, Shaq: Two North Carolina State University engineers have figured out the best way to shoot a free throw - a frequently underappreciated skill that gets more important as the ...


What is unique in the brain of an Arabic speaker?

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 1

Literary Arabic is expressed in the brain of an Arabic speaker as a second language and not as a native language. This has been shown in a new study by Dr. Raphiq Ibrahim of the Edmond J. Safra Brain Research Center for the ...


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Babble Of Baby Reveals Language Skills

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Children have a remarkable ability to learn new languages. As little as five hours of exposure to a second language is enough to help infants incorporate characteristics of that language into their babbling ...


Scholar helps classify clicks in African languages

Scholar helps classify clicks in African languages

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Linguistics scholar Amanda Miller is doing research with high-speed ultrasound technology to help her and fellow researchers successfully record and classify clicks in an endangered African ...


Heads or tails? It all depends on some key variables

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (17) | comments 8

Everyone knows the flip of a coin is a 50-50 proposition. Only it's not. You can beat the odds. So says a three-person team of Stanford and UC-Santa Cruz researchers. They produced a provocative study that turns conventional ...


Research Shows Overweight Patients More Challenging to Sedate

Research Shows Overweight Patients More Challenging to Sedate

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Patients with higher body mass indexes are more challenging to sedate, according to results found by a University of Cincinnati (UC) researcher studying data from common oral surgeries.


Scientists discover protein receptor for carbonation taste

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1767, chemist Joseph Priestley stood in his laboratory one day with an idea to help English mariners stay healthy on long ocean voyages. He infused water with carbon dioxide to create an effervescent ...


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Colombian guerrillas help scientists locate literacy in the brain

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0

A unique study of former guerrillas in Colombia has helped scientists redefine their understanding of the key regions of the brain involved in literacy. The study, funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Spanish ...


KEAP1 Keeps major cancer-promoting protein at bay

KEAP1 Keeps major cancer-promoting protein at bay

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A tumor-suppressing protein snatches up an important cancer-promoting enzyme and tags it with molecules that condemn it to destruction, a research team led by scientists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson ...