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When it comes to intelligence, size matters

When it comes to intelligence, size matters

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

A collaborative study led by researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), McGill University has demonstrated a positive link between cognitive ability and cortical thickness in the brains of healthy ...


"Scan It" Personal Scanner

Stop & Shop Supermarket Chain Goes Hi-Tech

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Aug 29, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (36) | comments 2

Your next trip to Stop & Shop may be little more than just placing items into your wagon and paying for them at the cashier's checkout counter.


Scale of justice

fMRI scans used in murder trial sentencing

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 13

(PhysOrg.com) -- Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) scans have been used, possibly for the first time, in the sentencing phase of a murder trial in Chicago in the US.


Research backs legend of man-eating bird

Research backs legend of man-eating bird

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A huge flesh-eating eagle that became extinct in New Zealand only 500 years ago was an efficient hunter that could attack prey 10 times its size, UNSW research has found, lending credibility ...


Dips and Swells of Your Brain May Reveal Early Mental Disorders

Dips and Swells of Your Brain May Reveal Early Mental Disorders

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- John Csernansky wants to take your measurements. Not the circumference of your chest, waist and hips. No, this doctor wants to stretch a tape measure around your hippocampus, thalamus and ...


Cold case techniques bring mummy’s face to life

Cold case techniques bring mummy's face to life

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Thanks to the skills of artists who work on cold case investigations, people have a chance to see what the Oriental Institute’s mummy Meresamun may have looked like in real life.


Rare prehistoric pregnant turtle found in Utah (AP)

Rare prehistoric pregnant turtle found in Utah

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 08, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Paleontologists say a 75-million-year-old turtle fossil uncovered in southern Utah has a clutch of eggs inside, making it the first prehistoric pregnant turtle found in the United States.


CT scans: Too much of a good thing can be risky

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Patients who undergo numerous CT scans over their lifetime may be at increased risk for cancer, according to a study published in the April issue of Radiology.


Study gives more proof that intelligence is largely inherited

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 17, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

They say a picture tells a thousand stories, but can it also tell how smart you are? Actually, say UCLA researchers, it can.


Neural modeling helps expose epilepsy's triggers

Neural modeling helps expose epilepsy's triggers

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 16, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A brain scan of a person experiencing an epileptic seizure looks like the Great Plains during an early evening in midsummer. Fierce electrical storms pop up seemingly at random, proliferate ...


Voting

Protect your vote -- avoid election machine errors

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 03, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Of all the conceivable problems that could lead to a miscount Election Day, there's one possibility that voters can do something about – avoid making election machine-related errors, says a University of Maryland ...


Study uses brain scans to discover how children 'read' faces

Study uses brain scans to discover how children 'read' faces

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Oxford University scientists are using brain-scanning technology to understand how we learn to recognise and 'read' faces as children.


1 conjoined twin talking after separation surgery (AP)

1 conjoined twin talking after separation surgery

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- A Bangladeshi toddler separated this week from her conjoined twin sister was talking and behaving normally Thursday after waking from a medically induced coma, the head of the surgery team said.


EKG can show false positive readings for diagnosing heart condition

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The electrical measurements on the electrocardiogram can often mislead physicians in diagnosing the heart condition left ventricular hypertrophy, causing other screening tests to be ordered before a definitive conclusion ...


iPhone the body electric

iPhone the body electric: New 'apps' visualize human anatomy

Technology / Software

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

University of Utah researchers created new iPhone programs - known as applications or "apps" - to help scientists, students, doctors and patients study the human body, evaluate medical problems and analyze ...