News tagged with intuitive sense


Liking sweets makes sense for kids

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 18, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

As any parent knows, children love sweet-tasting foods. Now, new research from the University of Washington and the Monell Center indicates that this heightened liking for sweetness has a biological basis and is related ...





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Study shows that laboratory rats calculate confidence to make decisions

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 11, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 3

It has probably happened to everyone at one time or another. You're driving to a restaurant for the very first time. At a crossroads, you make a turn. You drive for several minutes, and then several minutes more. Nothing ...


Warm-up helps surgeons improve performance

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New research published in the February issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons shows a warm-up of 15 to 20 minutes with simple surgical exercises prior to an operation leads to a substantial increase in pro ...


Price tag can change the way people experience wine, study shows

Other Sciences / Other

created Jan 14, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (32) | comments 1

In a demonstration of the power of marketing, researchers in California showed you can increase a person's enjoyment of wine by just sticking a higher price on it, according to a study released Monday.


Researchers heat up gold to surprising effect: It gets harder not softer

Researchers heat up gold to surprising effect: It gets harder not softer

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 22, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Common sense tells us that when you heat something up it gets softer, but a team of researchers, led by University of Toronto chemistry and physics professor R.J. Dwayne Miller, has demonstrated the exact ...


Physicists investigate how time moves forward

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 05, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (155) | comments 56

As humans, we have a very intuitive concept of time, and of the differences between the past, present, and future. But, as scientists Edward Feng of the University of California, Berkeley, and Gavin Crooks of the Lawrence ...


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Toyota Not Too Keen On Plug-In Hybrids

Technology / Energy

created May 22, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (13) | comments 34

(PhysOrg.com) -- Toyota is recognized as one of the leaders in hybrid technology, so it may come as a surprise to some that the company is not terribly keen on selling hybrid plug-ins to consumers. Even though ...


Samsung Unveils SGH-E590 Designed by Jasper Morrison

Samsung Unveils SGH-E590 Designed by Jasper Morrison

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jun 04, 2007 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Samsung Electronics and Jasper Morrison, a leading industrial designer, cooperated to bring an attractive mobile phone, SGH-E590. The Samsung E590 is a perfect solution for users who want to have all of the ...


D-cycloserine may improve behavioral therapy treatment for anxiety

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 16, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Anxiety is a normal human response to stress, but in some, it can develop into a disabling disorder of excessive and irrational fears, such as obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, or posttraumatic stress disorder. ...


Nation's position in 'product space' determines economic growth

Nation's position in 'product space' determines economic growth

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 29, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (58) | comments 0

Researchers have constructed a network of the relatedness between products, providing insight into the economic question of why some countries can quickly climb the manufacturing ladder, while others fail ...


Solid tumor cells not killed by radiation and chemotherapy become stronger

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 09, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Because of the way solid tumors adapt the body's machinery to bring themselves more oxygen, chemotherapy and radiation may actually make these tumors stronger.



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