News tagged with natural reflex

New surgical option for wrist arthritis

Breaking a fall, such as a tumble on the sidewalk, with your hands and wrists is everyone's natural reflex. But, if you fall hard enough, you'll often fracture your radius bone, or even one of the smaller wrist bones and ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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Researchers find critical speed above which birds- and drones- are sure to crash

The northern goshawk is one of nature's diehard thrill-seekers. The formidable raptor preys on birds and small mammals, speeding through tree canopies and underbrush to catch its quarry. With reflexes that rival a fighter ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Secrets of the 'Levitating' Slinky: Viral web videos trigger physicists to explore a striking phenomenon

While holiday shoppers search frantically for the Moshi Monsters, LeapPad Explorers, or Lalaloopsy Silly Hair dolls atop their children's wish lists, many physicists remain engrossed in the properties of a ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (18) | comments 44 | with audio podcast

Scientists identify key area that could sever communication between brain and heart in disease

A team of neuroscientists and anaesthetists, who have been using pioneering techniques to study how the brain regulates the heart, has identified a crucial part of the nervous system whose malfunction may account for an increased ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Brain control? Shining light on pupil constriction

(PhysOrg.com) -- You’ve seen it on television: A doctor shines a bright light into an unconscious patient’s eye to check for brain death. If the pupil constricts, the brain is OK, because in mammals, ...

Biology / Other

created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Researchers develop new test for children with vision loss (w/ video)

(Medical Xpress) -- Technology developed at the University of Cambridge to detect peripheral visual field loss in young children will enable the earlier detection of brain tumours, potentially saving sight and lives.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 12, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Golfing reawakens some of dementia's muscle memories

Names, dates, places - such memories are lost to the unforgiving chasm of Alzheimer's disease.

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created Oct 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Retinal cells thoughts to be the same are not: study

The old adage "Looks can be deceiving" certainly rings true when it comes to people. But it is also accurate when describing special light-sensing cells in the eye, according to a Johns Hopkins University biologist.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Women face several forms of urinary incontinence

Urinary incontinence is an awkward thing to talk about. It's an even more awkward thing to live with.

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created Jul 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Dolphins' 'remarkable' recovery from injury offers important insights for human healing

A Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) scientist who has previously discovered antimicrobial compounds in the skin of frogs and in the dogfish shark has now turned his attention to the remarkable wound healing abilities ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Pain and itch connected down deep

A new study of itch adds to growing evidence that the chemical signals that make us want to scratch are the same signals that make us wince in pain.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created May 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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