News tagged with biological motion
Walk this way? Masculine motion seems to come at you, while females walk away
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Sep 08, 2008 |
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You can tell a lot about people from the way they move alone: their gender, age, and even their mood, earlier studies have shown. Now, researchers reporting in the September 9th issue of Current Biology, a Cell Press public ...
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Study questions assumptions about human sensitivity to biological motion
Oct 17, 2007 |
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Humans may not be any more sensitive in detecting biological motion compared with nonbiological motion, concludes a study recently published in Journal of Vision, an online, free-access publication of the Association for ...
Researchers discover new way to control particle motion
Mar 17, 2008 |
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Chemical engineers at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered a new way to control the motion of fluid particles through tiny channels, potentially aiding the development of micro- and nano-scale technologies such ...
A special kind of flight training
Dec 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new generation of flight simulators will attempt to make air traffic safer.
Gel undergoes Peristalsis
Aug 18, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Large or small, machine parts only move when controlled by an external impulse. Biological systems, on the other hand, are capable of autonomous movements that continuously follow their own rhythms and spatial ...
Mixing it up with E. coli
Jan 15, 2007 |
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Poetry in motion may seem like an odd way to describe swimming bacteria, but that's what researchers at Drexel University got when they enlisted Escherichia coli (E. coli) in an effort to tackle a major problem in developing ...
Chemical signaling may power nanomachines
Mar 31, 2008 |
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In a finding that could provide controlled motion in futuristic nanomachines used for drug delivery, fuel cells, and other applications, researchers in Pennsylvania report that chemical signaling between synthetic ...
Study: Color plays role in perception
Apr 19, 2006 |
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U.S. scientists have discovered a neural circuit they say is likely to play an important role in the visual perception of moving objects.
Videos Extract Mechanical Properties of Liquid-Gel Interfaces
Jan 23, 2008 |
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Blood coursing through vessels, lubricated cartilage sliding against joints, ink jets splashing on paper—living and nonliving things abound with fluids meeting solids. However important these liquid/solid ...
Researchers study attention mechanisms of autistic children
Mar 30, 2009 |
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Two-year-olds with autism lack an important building block of social interaction that prompts newborn babies to pay attention to other people. Instead, these children pay attention to physical relationships between movement ...
Autism skews developing brain with synchronous motion and sound (w/Video)
Mar 29, 2009 |
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Individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) tend to stare at people's mouths rather than their eyes. Now, an NIH-funded study in 2-year-olds with the social deficit disorder suggests why they might find mouths so attractive: ...
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