News tagged with vocal muscles

Scientists discover likely cause of most common involuntary movement disorder

Researchers from the CHUQ research center and Universite Laval have discovered the likely cause of essential tremor (ET), a neurological disorder that affects more than 10 million North Americans. The team's promising findings ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Botox to iron out Australian asthma wrinkles

It is more celebrity than respiratory, but botox could prove a breath of fresh air for asthmatics if an Australian trial of the toxin launched Tuesday is successful.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jun 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Scientists: Lions and tigers roar a bit like babies cry

When lions and tigers roar loudly and deeply – terrifying every creature within earshot – they are somewhat like human babies crying for attention, although their voices are much deeper.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Aggressive piranhas bark to say buzz off

Thanks to Hollywood, piranhas have a bad reputation and it would be a brave scientist that chose to plunge their hand into a tank of them. But that didn't deter Sandie Millot, Pierre Vandewalle and Eric Parmentier from the ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Koalas' bellows boast about size

Koalas have a well-earned reputation for being dopey. Sleeping 19 hours out of every 24, and feeding for 3 of the remaining 5 hours, there doesn't seem to be much time for anything else in their lethargic lifestyle: that ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

How the bat got its buzz: Superfast muscles in mammals

As nocturnal animals, bats rely echolocation to navigate and hunt prey. By bouncing sound waves off objects, including the bugs that are their main diet, bats can produce an accurate representation of their ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Boomers will be spending billions to counter aging

(AP) -- Baby boomers heading into what used to be called retirement age are providing a 70 million-member strong market for legions of companies, entrepreneurs and cosmetic surgeons eager to capitalize on ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 21, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Wired for sound: A small fish's brain illustrates how people and other vertebrates produce sounds

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell researchers have identified regions of a fish brain that reveal the basic circuitry for how all vertebrates, including humans, generate sound used for social communication.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jun 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Larynx cancer treatment saves patients' voices

(PhysOrg.com) -- Jerry Young had had a routine endoscopy and assumed that the hoarseness that appeared in his voice was an after-effect of that exam. “If it doesn’t go away in a couple of weeks, ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Songbird's strategy for changing its tune could inform rehab efforts

It takes songbirds and baseball pitchers thousands of repetitions – a choreography of many muscle movements -- to develop an irresistible trill or a killer slider. Now, scientists have discovered that the male Bengalese ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Simple rubber device mimics complex bird songs

For centuries, hunters have imitated their avian prey by whistling through their fingers or by carving wooden bird calls. Now a team of physicists at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has reproduced many of ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 21, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Fish talk to each other, researcher finds

The undersea world isn't as quiet as we thought, according to a New Zealand researcher who found fish can "talk" to each other.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 07, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0


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