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Study Shows How We Evolved Different Personalities

Study Shows How We Evolved Different Personalities

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 13, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (46) | comments 13

(PhysOrg.com) -- Although members of the same species share more than 99 percent of their genetic makeup, individuals often have small differences, such as in their appearance, susceptibility to disease, and ...


Scientists find that individuals in vegetative states can learn

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 20, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 3

Scientists have found that some individuals in the vegetative and minimally conscious states, despite lacking the means of reporting awareness themselves, can learn and thereby demonstrate at least a partial consciousness. ...


People with higher IQs make wiser economic choices, study finds

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (11) | comments 12

People with higher measures of cognitive ability are more likely to make good choices in several different types of economic decisions, according to a new study with researchers from the University of Minnesota's Twin Cities ...


Researchers develop 'brain-reading' methods

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jul 27, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 1

It is widely known that the brain perceives information before it reaches a person's awareness. But until now, there was little way to determine what specific mental tasks were taking place prior to the point of conscious ...


Seeing color in 'blindsight'

Biology /

created Oct 27, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

By manipulating the brain noninvasively in a new way with magnetic stimulation, researchers have shown that they can restore some experience of color where before there was no visual awareness whatsoever. They report their ...


Can we 'learn to see?': Study shows perception of invisible stimuli improves with training

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Although we assume we can see everything in our field of vision, the brain actually picks and chooses the stimuli that come into our consciousness. A new study in the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology's ...


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Raytheon turns iPhones into battlefield tools

Technology / Software

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

US defense contractor Raytheon on Wednesday unveiled the first of what it said will be a series of software applications to make iPhones or iPod touch devices into battlefield tools.


'End of Bling is Nigh' warns new study

Other Sciences / Other

created Jun 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 2

New research at the University of Leicester reveals that the recession will bring with it a new ‘economic ethic’ which will curtail the display of ostentation and conspicuous consumption.


Playing games shows how personalities evolved

Playing games shows how personalities evolved

Biology /

created Oct 29, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Why do some people co-operate while others are very selfish? Research by the universities of Bristol and Exeter offers a new explanation as to why such a wide range of personality traits has ...


Peer Review Survey 2009: Preliminary findings

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Should peer review detect fraud and misconduct? What does it do for science and what does the scientific community want it to do? Will it illuminate good ideas or shut them down? Should reviewers remain anonymous?


Listening to pleasant music could help restore vision in stroke patients, suggests study

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Patients who have lost part of their visual awareness following a stroke can show an improved ability to see when they are listening to music they like, according to a new study published today in the journal Proceedings of ...


Certain skills are predictors of reading ability in young children

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 20, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new study in the journal Learning Disabilities Research & Practice reveals that differences found between pre-kindergarten reading-disabled children and their typically reading peers diminish in various measures by pre-first ...


Tweeting, more than just self expression: study

Technology / Internet

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- From CNN to Ashton Kutcher everyone is tweeting. In ads, many companies now display the logo of an animated blue bird holding a sign that says "follow me."


Off-the-wall workout: Modified yoga poses help with stretching, balancing

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Many yoga classes use a wall as an occasional prop. But in Nancy McCaochan's classes, the wall is the star.


Health risk behaviors associated with lower prostate specific antigen awareness

Medicine & Health / Other

created Aug 27, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

According to a study conducted at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, health risk behaviors such as smoking and obesity are associated with lower awareness of the Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA), which could ...