News tagged with movement
Blubbery 'researchers' lend fin to climate science
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 06, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Into the Antarctic enigma, the puzzle of a place with too few researchers chasing too many climate mysteries, slowly waddles the elephant seal.
Dreams may have an important physiological function
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Dreams have long been assumed to have psychological functions such as consolidating emotional memories and processing experiences or problems, but according to a Harvard psychiatrist and sleep ...
Can you hear me now? How the inner ear's sensors are made
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Dec 01, 2008 |
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A UCLA study shows for the first time how microscopic crystals form sound and gravity sensors inside the inner ear. Located at the ends of cilia — tiny cellular hairs in the ear that move and transmit signals ...
Intensified ice sheet movements do not affect rising sea levels
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 08, 2008 |
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Meltwater is rapidly increasing the tempo of glacial movements on the rim of the Greenland ice sheet. Over the long term, however, this process is interrupted as meltwater drains away via broad channels, as a result of which ...
Physicists Find that Size Matters When Initiating an Object's Movement Through Grains
Sep 26, 2008 |
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A team of Penn State physicists has discovered that the size of grains, such as sand, above a buried object is important in determining the force required to begin raising the object. No one, until now, has ...
Under Observation -- Restless Atoms Cause Materials to Age
Sep 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Atoms have the habit of jumping through solids - a practice that physicists have recently been able to follow for the first time using a brand new method. This scientific advance was made ...
Jellyfish Robot Swims Like its Biological Counterpart
Jun 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- "Jellyfish are one of the most awesome marine animals, doing a spectacular and psychedelic dance in water," explain engineers Sung-Weon Yeom and Il-Kwon Oh from Chonnam National University ...
Baby's first dreams: Research reveals sleep cycles in early fetus
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 13, 2009 |
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After about seven months growing in the womb, a human fetus spends most of its time asleep. Its brain cycles back and forth between the frenzied activity of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and the quiet resting ...
Modern tests demonstrate soundness of old iron bridge
Dec 21, 2009 |
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An unusual bowstring truss iron bridge that carried traffic across Roaring Run in Bedford County, Va. for almost 100 years is now a picturesque footbridge at the I-81 Ironto, Va. rest stop. Built in 1878, ...
Rutgers researcher examines connections between vision and movement
Oct 08, 2008 |
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A hand moves forward, but is it a friendly gesture or one meant to do harm? In an instant, we respond -- either extending our arm forward to shake hands or raising it higher to protect our face. But what are the subtle cues ...
Head movement is more important than gender in nonverbal communication (w/Video)
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 25, 2009 |
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It is well known that people use head motion during conversation to convey a range of meanings and emotions, and that women use more active head motion when conversing with each other than men use when they talk with each ...
Let me sleep on it: Creative problem solving enhanced by REM sleep
Jun 08, 2009 |
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Research led by a leading expert on the positive benefits of napping at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine suggests that Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep enhances creative problem-solving. The findings ...
Car or pedestrian -- How we can follow objects with our eyes
Oct 02, 2008 |
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When an object moves fast, we follow it with our eyes: our brain correspondingly calculates the speed of the object and adapts our eye movement to it. This in itself is an enormous achievement, yet our brain can do even more ...
Single molecule tracking helps reveal mechanism of chromosome separation in dividing cells
Mar 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Washington (UW) researchers are helping to write the operating manual for the nano-scale machine that separates chromosomes before cell division. The apparatus is called a spindle ...
Environmental effects of cold-climate strawberry farming
Sep 05, 2009 |
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Strawberries are America's fifth-favorite fruit, according to consumption rates. California and Florida grow more than 95% of the nation's strawberries; an additional 12,000 acres are planted in other states. Strawberries ...
