News tagged with alarm signal

Alcohol dulls brain 'alarm' that monitors mistakes, study finds

Most people have witnessed otherwise intelligent people doing embarrassing or stupid things when they are intoxicated, but what specifically happens in the brain to cause such drunken actions? A new study testing alcohol's ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Vigilant windows

Is someone sneaking around in front of the window trying to break in? Windows and doors are now being sensitized to suspicious movements: they can detect whether and how quickly something is moving. If it ...

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Scientists sound alarm over threat of untreatable gonorrhea in United States

(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers are continuing to sound the alarm on the growing threat of multi-drug resistant gonorrhea in the United States, according to a perspective  in the Feb. 9 issue of the New En ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Tiny primate 'talks' in ultrasound

One of the world's smallest primates, the Philippine tarsier, communicates in a range of ultrasound inaudible to predator and prey alike, according to a study published on Wednesday.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

An electronic green thumb

If sensors are supposed to communicate with each other to compare the measured data and to secure them, then, in the future, a network of distributed sensor nodes will aid in that: the network ensures a problem-free communication ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Gatekeeper signal controls skin inflammation

A new study unravels key signals that regulate protective and sometimes pathological inflammation of the skin. The research, published online on January 26th in the journal Immunity by Cell Press, identifies a "gatekeeper" that, ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Headphone-distracted pedestrians face death, serious injury: study

Listen up, pedestrians wearing headphones. Can you hear the trains or cars around you? Many probably can't, especially young adult males. Serious injuries to pedestrians listening to headphones have more than tripled in six ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

FDA: J&J delayed reporting insulin pump problems

(AP) -- Federal regulators have warned Johnson & Johnson that it could face fines and other sanctions for selling faulty insulin pumps and delaying disclosures of serious injuries to diabetics who were using its OneTouch ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Controversial research on bird flu

In a top-security lab in the Netherlands, scientists guard specimens of a super-killer influenza that slays half of those it infects and spreads easily from victim to victim.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 28, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 13

US Internet users not as scam-savvy as they think

US Internet users are continuing to fall for online scams, especially if the promised prize is a chance at a hip new gadget such as a tablet computer, according to a new study.

Technology / Internet

created Dec 23, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 4

Oracle misfires in fiscal 2Q, raising tech worries

Oracle's quarterly earnings missed analyst estimates as the business software maker struggled to close deals, signaling possible trouble ahead for the technology sector.

Technology / Business

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Expanding dead zones shrinking tropical blue marlin habitat

The science behind counting fish in the ocean to measure their abundance has never been simple. A new scientific paper authored by NOAA Fisheries biologist Eric Prince, Ph.D., and eight other scientists shows ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast


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