A new study led by Kara Maki, a mathematics grad student at the University of Delaware, demonstrated the physics behind the tear phenomenon, providing new insight, such as the fact that, contrary to previous beliefs, tear fluid can cross the surface of the middle of the eye. Thorough computer simulations have offered... |
21 November 2008 04:56 GMT |
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Man, this wasn't the most handsome American president... This year a research was made on laser scans of a bronze and a plaster copy of two masks of Lincoln's face, belonging to the Chicago History Museum.This revealed a high degree of facial asymmetry: Lincoln's face was much smaller than the right on... |
27 November 2007 06:34 GMT |
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Not only humans, but animals too shed tears when experiencing powerful pain excitations. Such a reaction of the lachrymal (tear producing) glands cannot be explained just by the function of the tears of protecting the eye; in the case of the lachrymal glands there must be admitted the existence of an also specific en... |
5 November 2007 14:51 GMT |
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Do they call you skunk?Do tons of antiperspirants not work?In this case you could chase away the pit stains with ... botox. Botox, the trade name for Botulinum toxin, is a neurotoxic protein found in the bacterium Clostridium botulinum. It is one of the most poisonous naturally occurring chemicals in the world, but ... |
10 May 2007 04:30 GMT |
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