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"I think human beings are remarkable adaptive," Andrew Chien, vice president of research and director of future technologies research at Intel Labs, said. "If you told people 20 years ago that they would be carrying computers all the time, they would have said, 'I don't want that. I don't need that.�... |
20 November 2009
06:16 GMT |
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Bruce Hood, professor of developmental psychology at the Bristol University, may have come up with the perfect explanation why religion is such an integrant part of our lives – or, at least, for some of us. Going against what atheists say that religion is often only the result of a lack of education, Hood&rsquo... |
7 September 2009
15:41 GMT |
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No one likes it when someone has some sort of public outburst and starts hurling insults at everyone and everything. However, cursing could be a very way of coping with pain by relieving it on the spot, a new research indicates. While the exact connection between swearing and pain management has yet to be established... |
14 July 2009
16:41 GMT |
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The neuroscience community has over the past few years been involved in endless arguments, as to whether a technique known as deep-brain stimulation – electrodes inserted in various parts of the cortex, which have electrical current passing through them – can trigger the formation of new, functional neuro... |
30 May 2009
04:55 GMT |
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For quite some time now, researchers have known that, in people addicted to drugs or medicine, the pleasure center in the brain gets “confused” and mixes up the responses it normally gives out in response to certain stimuli. Scientists have hypothesized that, by learning to control the action of this nerv... |
29 May 2009
09:18 GMT |
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Sticking with a diet, even if it’s not as restrictive as it gets, can be a truly challenging task, but not because it’s our stomach that is literally pleading with us to eat more. As the findings of a new study reveal, our brain acts in quite an unpredictable manner when it comes to working out and dietin... |
14 May 2009
16:21 GMT |
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Researchers have just recently discovered that suppressing fear may no longer remain simply a question of training. They have uncovered that the portion of the brain associated with primal fear is not the amygdala, as some have been claiming for a few years, and that inhibiting another tiny region of the cortex can c... |
10 March 2009
06:17 GMT |
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The main issue and limitation with existing robots is the fact that, if a new piece or extension is added to them after their construction is finished, the software controlling the entire thing has to be fully re-designed and re-implemented, in order to ensure that the “graft” holds. This process takes up... |
5 February 2009
03:37 GMT |
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A group of archaeologists from the UK have unearthed an ancient skull that dates back from the Roman invasion, 2,000 years ago. Surprisingly, the head of the unlucky person it used to belong to was not buried along with the body, but that's not the oddest part. When she was attempting to clean the discovered sku... |
13 December 2008
13:21 GMT |
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Researchers at the University of Michigan, led by Daniel Weissman, studied the interactions that occur between multiple areas of the brain when boredom sets in, and discovered that, as attention fades, so does the intensity at which several nervous centers communicate. The results were obtained by keeping volunteers ... |
11 December 2008
06:06 GMT |
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Oxygen deprivation can lead to a condition known as brain swelling – or cerebral edema – which seems to have been the culprit in several of the yet unexplained deaths of people escalating Mount Everest, the tallest peak in the world. Thus far, these unfortunate accidents were attributed to Yeti, the snowm... |
10 December 2008
15:01 GMT |
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Brown University researchers, scientist Michael J. Tarr, a Fox professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences and professor of cognitive and linguistic sciences at the University, and graduate student Adrian Nestor, discovered that men have more red pigment on their faces, whereas women tend to have more green. The d... |
8 December 2008
20:01 GMT |
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Taking notice of the fact that slogans like "Just say No" are not that effective, scientists decided to turn to teenagers' curiosity towards themselves and their bodies, in an attempt to stop surging alcohol usage in the United States. Currently, drinking is the most widespread vice in the country, with a report... |
4 December 2008
05:38 GMT |
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An acoustic "oddity" has been identified by American researchers. It would seem that when a sample of a recorded voice is played back repeatedly, at the same pitch, length and speed, the brain will start perceiving it as music. Scientists are puzzled by this find, as it brings forth a new function of the brain, which... |
12 November 2008
02:33 GMT |
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University College London (UCL) scientists conducted new experiments recently, designed to study the patterns that the brain activates when a person feels hate. This study is a part of a larger one, designed to map and catalog the parts of the brain that are involved in main human emotions, such as love, hate, fear, ... |
29 October 2008
07:28 GMT |
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Since scientists generally tend not to believe in anything that cannot be explained, like the supernatural happenings, some of them have embarked on the mission of proving the (non-)existence of ghosts and other Poltergeist phenomena. Believing that the source of spectral sights or other cases of abnormal presences l... |
28 October 2008
00:58 GMT |
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A recent test on brain activity during reading and Internet surfing has indicated that the latter is superior to the old reading hobby, in that it stimulates more highly the areas related to memory, decision making and visual images, situated in the frontal, temporal and the cingulate regions of the brain. Still, whe... |
27 October 2008
02:36 GMT |
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The US Army wants to fund a research that would render regular modern communication methods obsolete and, instead, use transmission of information via thought. According to the scientists' prognoses, this technology is some 20 years away, but the premises and basic technology have already been developed.The &ldq... |
14 October 2008
09:52 GMT |
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A series of five games that are proven to improve mental abilities was distributed free of charge by Allstate insurance company to 100,000 old age drivers from Pennsylvania. Of course, they are all driving-based games, not “Diablo,” “World of Warcraft” or “GTA.” The game suite... |
14 October 2008
06:23 GMT |
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A new device that relies on the brain's first impulsive reactions when subjected to images it would recognize may render the DNA or fingerprint-based techniques obsolete in the near future. A neuroscientist from Seattle, Dr. Larry Farwell, chairman of Brain Fingerprinting Labs, helped science become more in... |
13 October 2008
06:31 GMT |
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Most of us have found ourselves in situations in which, when dealing with creativity issues, the solution failed to appear right there on the spot, but rather all of a sudden, after a while of not paying attention to them. This is how we instantly knew how to solve a certain math problem, continue the song we started... |
6 October 2008
05:52 GMT |
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A new research advises us not to trust the legend of our multitasking, since we're not at all able to do more things at the same time consciously.The same study stresses on the emergence of an adjacent unique ability that propelled us to an evolutionary edge - the humans' capacity of toggling their att... |
3 October 2008
08:31 GMT |
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A recent study indicates that musical training determines musicians to yield higher IQ scores than their non-musician counterparts. This is due to the fact that they tend to use both of their brain sides more frequently than regular people.Crystal Gibson, Bradley Folley and Sohee Park, psychologists from the Vanderbi... |
3 October 2008
06:25 GMT |
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The theory according to which we all have an inner genius waiting to be discovered has been addressed now by a team of scientists that built a device that affects the brain activity through a series of magnetic impulses. They are hoping to tap more of the brain's potential with their newly-developed cap.So far, ... |
30 September 2008
10:44 GMT |
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It has always been marketed and believed that light cigarettes only deliver smaller quantities of nicotine to the brain receptors than the regular ones. A recent study proves otherwise, specifically that the nicotine impact of the two cigarette types is sensitively similar.A new UCLA research has proved that the fact... |
29 September 2008
05:03 GMT |
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This week records yet another major breakthrough event, as the University of Southampton in UK begins the world's biggest study on near-death experiences to date. As a matter of fact, "begins" is not the most accurate choice, since the AWARE (AWAreness during REsuscitation) study is already past pilot phase... |
11 September 2008
10:15 GMT |
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Human memory has been previously tested, but not to the extent of this experiment developed and performed by people from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). They managed to prove that the 14 people involved in the test were able to remember specific details about almost 3.000 pictures they were presented. &n... |
9 September 2008
10:16 GMT |
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If you have a bladder disorder, you're also likely to have unusual brain activity, say the results of an experiment involving rats with overactive bladders. And if this is true for rats, then humans with this disorder could also suffer significant changes in the activity of the brain, which could help explain so... |
24 July 2008
03:26 GMT |
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If you want to inspect an object thoroughly, hold it in your hands - that should keep you occupied for a while. Psychologists at the Washington University who have recently showed that an object within the grasp of our hands is much closer investigated than an object in the distance, affecting our perception and the ... |
14 July 2008
06:28 GMT |
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The brain's ability to make fast decisions in threatening situations may sometimes literally make the difference between life and death. In our more primitive past this would have translated into fast decisions destined to help us escape from the claws of a predator; the situation is analogue even today, even if... |
9 July 2008
06:31 GMT |
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Based on more than a decade of research and findings by Dr. Mark Baldwin of esteemed McGill University in Montreal, MindHabits is a new game for Mac which presents simple but fun challenges for maintaining a more positive state of mind.Tests run by Dr. Baldwin showed obvious positive results for the subjects. Those r... |
3 July 2008
06:51 GMT |
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Most people would eat almost anything today, as long as it tastes good and it fills up their bellies, regardless of how healthy it is, the nutritional values or the bunch of chemicals they swallow up. No wonder that the US is currently facing a serious obesity epidemic - people suddenly forgot that food has a nutriti... |
3 July 2008
04:59 GMT |
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The fact that a patient's mood can affect the way cancer tumors evolve in time is far from being a myth anymore, it's a certified fact. Scientific studies showed more than once that patients with an overall calm attitude towards the disease they are fighting have a better chance of decreasing the rate the c... |
11 June 2008
05:13 GMT |
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ENIAC versus a modern digital computer - which one is faster? Well, ENIAC weighed about 27 tons and filled several rooms while a modern computer weighs less than ten kilograms and you can fill a single room with several hundreds of them, so if we were to judge the computing power according to size then ENIAC would ce... |
9 June 2008
05:23 GMT |
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If you were among those who thought eating was only designed for the pleasure (or on the contrary, the extreme distress) of our digestive tract and our figures, think again - as a recent study has come up with a rather surprising conclusion. Eating, say scientists from the Cambridge University in Britain, can be the ... |
6 June 2008
07:07 GMT |
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The parts of the brain affected by long-term, heavy cannabis use are those where memory and the regulation of emotion functions reside. High resolution magnetic resonance imaging of the brain of 15 men who have been smoking at least five joints per day for periods of time at least 10 years long compared to that of pe... |
3 June 2008
08:35 GMT |
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As opposed to other cephalopods, the Chambered Nautilus has a relatively small brain and according to a new experiment it may have a simple memory as well, just enough to remember a particular event that took place several hours back, such as a flash of light that is associated with food."We were quite surprised to s... |
2 June 2008
11:17 GMT |
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The human brain only makes sense of the images we are seeing about one-tenth of a second after light hits the retina, meaning that in fact our visual system is somehow impaired by neural lag, for which the brain must compensate. How this is done is still under debate, with some scientists proposing that the motor sys... |
2 June 2008
10:37 GMT |
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A new study investigating the relation between lead exposure during childhood and later antisocial behavior showed that lead contamination can be used to predict whether or not an individual will get in trouble with the law during adulthood. The investigation was led by Kim Dietrich from the University of Cincinnati ... |
28 May 2008
06:24 GMT |
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Getting no sleep can be the main reason of one's zombie-like behavior, meaning, for sleepwalking. "Sleepwalkers should keep a regular bedtime to avoid unwanted evening strolls," said Antonio Zadra of the Universit de Montral, lead researcher of a study published in the Annals of Neurology journal, a study that... |
12 May 2008
14:11 GMT |
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Anorexia is not necessarily an issue exclusively connected to food ingestion. More than an eating disease, it is a mental problem. A new research published in the Psychosomatic Medicine medical journal connects anorexia nervosa with an increased risk of suicide. "Suicidal ideas and behaviors by anyone with anorexia n... |
9 May 2008
10:26 GMT |
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Russian researchers with the Southern Federal University are working on a mind-control headset that would allow human users to interact with their computers using the power of thought. The project secured $750,000 in funds and will unfold in an 18-month timeframe.The research is conducted by a team of Rostov engineer... |
8 May 2008
05:01 GMT |
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An abused child does not have only an impaired behavior, but also a structurally different brain. That happens because early child abuse appears to permanently change gene expression in the brain, as pointed by a postmortem investigation of suicide victims, recently published in the Nature Neuroscience journal. It is... |
8 May 2008
03:36 GMT |
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For decades, mercury pollution has been linked to many diseases. This heavy metal is known to attack the nervous system. With all that, a new study published in the Health & Place journal connects industrial mercury pollution to higher risk of autism and, for the first time ever, reveals a link between autism risk an... |
8 May 2008
02:51 GMT |
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Being called "shorty" is hard to stand as it is. But this is probably the least of concerns: people with shorter arms and legs are more prone to Alzheimer's disease, probably because of a low quality of nutrition in childhood, as revealed by a new study published in the Neurology journal. "Arm span and knee heig... |
7 May 2008
14:06 GMT |
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This gut-released hormone has already been called "the hunger hormone" but what we must know about it is that ghrelin not only increases appetite, it also makes you perceive food as more appealing, as signaled by a new research published in the Cell Metabolism journal. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of ... |
7 May 2008
03:00 GMT |
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Currently, in many western countries, less than 1% of women breastfeed continuously for the first six months of the baby's life. In the UK, the category most prone to breastfeeding was found to be formed of well educated, professional women, older than 30 and mothers for the first time. The fear of ending up wit... |
6 May 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Modern life and the rapid pace at which it evolves have created many unadapted individuals. At the moment, over 121 million people worldwide experience severe depression, which is also the main cause of suicide. Annually, more people commit suicide than are killed in wars, terrorist attacks and homicides. Worldwide, ... |
6 May 2008
14:06 GMT |
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The Nintendo DS handheld console was and will probably be the system where brain training games feel at home. However, this doesn't mean it will be holding a monopoly for long, especially since this kind of games manage to bring in the big bucks. Recently, the Xbox 360 consoles have received their first brain tr... |
6 May 2008
02:36 GMT |
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It is clear that alcohol consumption can turn a gentleman into a rude beast. For the first time, a new research study published in The Journal of Neuroscience explains why. Social drinkers intoxicated with alcohol have lowered sensitivity in brain nuclei controlling threat detection, while displaying higher activity ... |
30 April 2008
10:44 GMT |
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