News tagged with sweat
'Fear detector' being developed
Nov 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- British scientists are aiming to develop a device that can detect the smell of fear, and that could one day identify terrorists, drug smugglers, and other criminals.
Army study improves ability to predict drinking water needs
Jul 08, 2009 |
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When soldiers leave base for a 3-day mission, how much water should they bring? Military planners and others have long wrestled with that question, but new research from the Journal of Applied Physiology may now provide them a ...
Live-in domestics: Mites as maids in tropical rainforest sweat bee nests
Apr 20, 2009 |
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Mites not only inhabit the dust bunnies under the bed, they also occupy the nests of tropical sweat bees where they keep fungi in check. Bees and their young are healthier when mites live-in, report researchers ...
Skin biology illuminates how stem cells operate
Mar 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As a girl, Elaine Fuchs borrowed her mother’s old strainers and mixing bowls to collect polliwogs, an activity she credits for her present-day career as a biologist.
Evil-doers everywhere: Get a whiff of this
Feb 18, 2009 |
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The food you eat, the drugs you take, your state of mind, and your gender -- all these make your sweat unique. Tel Aviv University chemists may turn this fact into a new crime-fighting tool that would make ...
Women's brains recognize, encode smell of male sexual sweat
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 08, 2009 |
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A new Rice University study published in the Journal of Neuroscience found that socioemotional meanings, including sexual ones, are conveyed in human sweat.
Sweat it out: Study examines ability of sweat patches to monitor bone loss
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 01, 2008 |
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Some health assessments that are routinely carried out on Earth are not practical when the "patients" are free-floating astronauts on long space flights, such as missions to Mars or the Moon. A new, NASA-funded study from ...
New study will make criminals sweat
Sep 16, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The inventor of a revolutionary new forensic fingerprinting technique claims criminals who eat processed foods are more likely to be discovered by police through their fingerprint sweat corroding ...
Athletes' 'sweat and tears' linked to asthma
Sep 08, 2008 |
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An athlete's ability to sweat may do more than keep the body cool. It also may prevent the development of exercise-induced asthma (EIA), a common respiratory condition among trained athletes. New research appearing in the ...
