|
Home / News / Tags / scientific study
|
|
30
Stories about: scientific study |
|
|
More: next 50 >>
Scientists working with a new mathematical model may have finally figured out how it is that mosquitoes can hear the faint sounds of a female's flapping wings, but not become deaf when hearing louder noises. The University of Bristol research team has managed to unlock some of the remarkable features, but highli... |
20 November 2009
19:01 GMT |
 |
|
Jellyfish are a very peculiar type of marine animals, mostly because not much is really known about their past and their evolution. Their construction leaves very few fossils behind, and only a limited number of specimens are available in natural history museums around the world. The thing that always fascinated peop... |
20 November 2009
18:01 GMT |
|
|
Scientists in Canada announce the development of a new light “switch,” which has the ability to basically trigger paralysis from within the body of lab worms. All it takes for that to happen is a beam of ultraviolet light. As long as it shines, the animals remain immobilized, and can only move when the li... |
19 November 2009
07:00 GMT |
|
|
Scientists at the University of Exeter have recently completed their latest scientific study, which hints at the fact that males may have more pronounced personality traits across a wide range of species, from humans to house sparrows. Traits such as aggression and daring, which are sought-for in a male, and preferre... |
18 November 2009
21:21 GMT |
|
|
According to a new scientific study, it would appear that people shopping in stores that have the floors covered with comfortable carpets feel better during their shopping experience, but also tend to view the products they are checking out as being “less comforting.” Test respondents did not arrive at th... |
18 November 2009
09:56 GMT |
|
|
We've all been in situations in which the person we were talking to seemed oblivious to the fact that we looked sick and not in the mood, and just kept on ranting for hours on end. The ability to empathize – that is, to figure out what other people are feeling without them saying it, and to relate to their... |
17 November 2009
19:21 GMT |
|
|
Working in the Galapagos Archipelago, where Charles Darwin himself studied the behavior of finches more than 150 years ago, scientists have recently announced that they have managed to capture an elusive moment in the history of a group of birds – the creation of a new species from a new strain. The investigato... |
17 November 2009
08:58 GMT |
|
|
Researchers proposed a long time ago that atmospheric pressure might be one of the key factors determining the habitability of Earth-like planets. Over geological timescales, of millions to billions of years, variations in this pressure may be what determines a planet's ability to foster primitive life. A new st... |
17 November 2009
03:22 GMT |
|
|
The human body has evolved over millions of years to the point where it can make the best out of itself, during the healing process. As a person is recovering from an accident or an injury, such as a broken arm, its pain system becomes hyper-sensitized. This essentially means that even simple and normal actions, as w... |
17 November 2009
02:49 GMT |
|
|
The dual nature of light, as in the fact that it can act like both a particle and a wave, has had physicists puzzled since that was first discovered. Such a duality was bound to lead to some paradoxes, scientists hypothesized at the time, and now their predictions appear to be coming true. Scientists have recently di... |
15 November 2009
04:28 GMT |
|
|
For centuries, children have been educated in the spirit of their families, without too much outside influence, and less influenced by their peers than today. It's arguable whether those children turned out to be individuals or not, but the main point is that they were not subjected to the many perks that childr... |
13 November 2009
10:37 GMT |
|
|
According to scientists who performed a new set of experiments on unsuspecting mice, it may be that the large number of police jail deaths that took place about a decade ago were caused by the use of pepper sprays on people intoxicated with psychoactive drugs. The investigation raises new questions on the use of the ... |
13 November 2009
09:02 GMT |
|
|
A collaboration of German researchers has recently taken on one of the most difficult sets of measurements possible in nature, namely to determine the mass of an ocean. Unlike calculating variations in sea levels, which is relatively simple, finding out the mass of the water is far more complex, as a large number of ... |
13 November 2009
08:46 GMT |
|
|
There are many people in the world today that wish nothing more than to live a long and healthy life, perhaps even reaching the venerable age of 100 years old. A new investigation reveals one of the key elements that make this possible, in the form of an inherited cellular repair mechanism that is able to do its job ... |
13 November 2009
03:42 GMT |
|
|
Astronomers have known for a long time that the end of stars sees them transforming into a number of structures, including white dwarfs, neutron stars, or black holes. The thing that results after a star's demise is entirely based on the mass of said celestial body. If the mass is large, then the structure will ... |
13 November 2009
02:27 GMT |
|
|
Scientists at the University of Haifa, in Israel, have recently determined that the hormone that has been primarily been associated with love – oxytocin – also plays an important part in bolstering negative states of mind. In other words, the chemical is able to make people feel empathy, trust, and genero... |
12 November 2009
21:11 GMT |
|
|
Our Sun is not by far the only star out there that is capable of hosting planetary systems around their surface. There are at least a couple of hundred stars out there that have exoplanets around them. At least 400 of them have been identified until now, and chances are that thousands more exist. But astronomers have... |
12 November 2009
02:40 GMT |
|
|
According to a communication professor at the University of Texas in Austin (UTA), people's representations in online worlds and computer games – known as their avatars – can exert a strong, negative influence on their owner's behavior, even if they are just virtual characters. In digital techno... |
11 November 2009
21:01 GMT |
|
|
Over the past few years, actual telephone calls or e-mail accounts have been rendered obsolete by the advent of the SMS (Short Message Service). This has been most visibly reflected in the preferences of young people today. Polls indicate that most people under the age of 21 now use messages to stay in touch, rather ... |
11 November 2009
19:31 GMT |
|
|
Dinosaurs dominated the Earth, totally or partially, for at least 160 million years before the K-T (Cretaceous–Tertiary) extinction event, which saw the disappearance of the giant lizards. The earliest of these animals were small, two-legged creatures, but some of their predecessors grew to enormous sizes, and ... |
11 November 2009
18:31 GMT |
|
|
The fact that happiness and sadness spread through social circles like ripples in a pond was proven some time ago. It may take more than a year for a positive or negative feeling to make its way through related groups of friends, until the emotion finally has no more “stamina” left to move forward. Expert... |
11 November 2009
06:58 GMT |
|
|
In spite of being so common it's becoming annoying at times, sand is one of the most peculiar states of matter on the planet. While it may indeed not show, the stuff is able to behave like both a solid and a liquid at the same time, an ability that has made many physicists puzzle over which one of the two sands ... |
10 November 2009
10:59 GMT |
|
|
Over recent years, scientists have devised a number of computer models in their attempt to decipher how changes in the atmosphere will influence human activities in some of the most populated areas of the world. Some of the most complex such models to date are those that have been created for heavy rainfall, but, acc... |
9 November 2009
18:31 GMT |
|
|
In a new set of studies, researchers have demonstrated that the suspicions we show towards distorted faces and unconventional looks may actually be something that is rooted in our DNA. Additionally, the same investigations have also discovered that the trait might have evolved further back in the past than first pred... |
9 November 2009
07:03 GMT |
|
|
It would appear that ants, besides being some of the most organized and widespread creatures on the face of the planet, are also loyal comrades. In experimental setups, they were found to return after comrades that had been ensnared using an unconventional trap. Those who returned for the prisoner made all possible e... |
9 November 2009
02:21 GMT |
|
|
Scientists at the University of Colorado in Boulder (UCB) have recently developed a new model to explain how bacteria are distributed across the human body, which may bring forth a new wave of understanding of how the microorganisms either live with us in symbiosis, or cause us significant damage. The team has also m... |
6 November 2009
09:06 GMT |
|
|
Speaking to unborn children may be more important than once thought, scientists have recently revealed. They say that children appear to be learning how language works even when inside the womb. Naturally, they cannot talk immediately after they are born, as the vocal chords and the speech center of the brain need to... |
6 November 2009
03:45 GMT |
|
|
The supernova remnant Cassiopeia A is, by far, one of the strangest space formations in the Milky Way. For starters, it's one of the youngest supernova remnants in the galaxy. Additionally, its structure is so peculiar that astronomers have been puzzling for a long time over what the celestial body mi... |
5 November 2009
01:24 GMT |
|
|
Misumena vatiaspider is a species of spiders that, because of its mouthful of a name, is more widely known for its amazing trait. The females in this species are able to camouflage themselves perfectly, mimicking the color of whatever flower they happen to be lurking on, while waiting for some insect to drop by. In a... |
4 November 2009
11:12 GMT |
|
|
Scientists from the Lund University Vision Group recently discovered that birds require between 5 and 20 times as much light as the human eye does in order to perceive colors. As a direct result, their color vision decays much earlier in the day than our own, for example. More precisely, the experts determined that, ... |
4 November 2009
08:50 GMT |
|
|
It would appear that the brains of Arabic speakers do not process Literary Arabic as a mother tongue, but rather as a second language. The conclusion was drawn by experts at the University of Haifa Department of Learning Disabilities, who were led by Dr. Raphiq Ibrahim. He is a scientist at the UH Edmond J. Safra Bra... |
4 November 2009
05:53 GMT |
|
|
As if working the night shift wasn't difficult and demanding enough, scientists have recently determined that ingesting caffeine can also have a negative effect on people's bodies during the day. That is to say, if workers drink coffee or energy drinks as they work, they may be cutting the branch from under... |
4 November 2009
03:41 GMT |
|
|
For many years, neuroscientists believed that the “headquarters” of human self-awareness were located in a portion of the brain called the insula, which allows us to realize the things that go on inside the body. For just as many years, this explanation had sufficed, and experts moved onwards with their r... |
3 November 2009
20:01 GMT |
|
|
In a find that could have massive implications for handling people suffering from speech disorders, experts at the Yale-affiliated Haskins Laboratories have determined that learning how to speak also changes the way sounds are heard in the human brain. The discovery, which is detailed in this week's issue of the... |
3 November 2009
15:01 GMT |
|
|
Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro is one of the most renowned natural landmarks in the world today. Dominating large plains, the mountain looks as if it had its top cut off by a giant wielding a sword. Its iconic image is partially given by the fact that, while in Africa, it has its top covered in snow and ice. While... |
3 November 2009
03:09 GMT |
|
|
For people serving tea on a regular basis, the teapot effect is well known. It appears when the liquid dribbles at low flow rates, causing numerous tea stains on table covers and clothes. Now, experts in France have managed to determine the root cause of this peculiar effect and also to come up with a way of addressi... |
2 November 2009
19:01 GMT |
|
|
Most sane people consider being in a bad mood as, well, a bad thing, and try to get out of it, by any means at their disposal. But, according to a group of scientists from Australia, that may not be necessarily the best idea possible. In a new study they conducted, they showed the fact that people who were sad, or ge... |
2 November 2009
10:59 GMT |
|
|
Over recent years, scientists have made numerous, new discoveries in the field of microbiology and bacterial research, and one of the most important finds has been the fact that the microorganisms that cause chronic lung infections “speak” with each other. This communication is devastating for the human b... |
2 November 2009
03:50 GMT |
|
|
According to a new scientific study, it may be that air tides, or atmospheric-pressure fluctuations, are capable of causing massive landslides. The investigation that led to this conclusion was conducted on the Slumgullion landslide, a landscape feature located in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado, and ... |
2 November 2009
01:28 GMT |
|
|
Every one of you who has ever gone to the circus knows the thrills of taking a ride into the haunted house. There are fake, plastic skeletons, and eerie ghost sounds, and canned blood and whatnot, and all these elements contribute to a “scary” ambiance. But, if you are looking for real thrills, or, as cri... |
31 October 2009
06:36 GMT |
|
|
Over the course of the planet's history, there have been five extinction events that scientists know of, and each and every single one of them may have been caused by nothing more than algae. The new idea was proposed by a scientist on October 19, at the annual Geological Society of America meeting. As expected,... |
30 October 2009
16:21 GMT |
|
|
Common scientific knowledge has it that, about 2.4 billion years ago, the levels of the chemical oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere began to suddenly climb, until they reached at one point concentrations similar to the ones existent today. The fact that the planet is able to support such a variety of life forms is... |
30 October 2009
02:14 GMT |
|
|
According to physicists, there is currently no scientific explanation available for the results of experiments involving placing beads inside small, narrow and spinning boxes. The patterns that are formed are very beautiful and intriguing indeed, but they cannot be explained by basic science, and merit further invest... |
29 October 2009
19:41 GMT |
|
|
In a new scientific study that may improve conservation efforts for migratory birds, scientists demonstrate that, in European robins, a visual center in the brain and a special type of light-sensing cells in the eyes play a much more important part in guiding the bird on its migratory path than magnetic-sensing cells... |
29 October 2009
15:51 GMT |
|
|
Scientists have recently developed a new method of destroying a class of parasitic worms, which is so hard to kill, that it has spread to a point where it inhabits all the people in several African villages. The tiny invaders are so well adapted to everything one gets to throw at them, that they seem to survive all a... |
29 October 2009
09:41 GMT |
|
|
Out of the people who develop life-ending cancer, 90 percent die because their condition metastasizes, as in the cancer spreads from one organ to another, non-connected, non-adjacent organ. In other words, pancreatic cancer may affect the liver, lungs or the brain, with an inevitable outcome. Once the disease spreads... |
29 October 2009
06:36 GMT |
|
|
According to a new study conducted by experts at the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), the state of North Carolina is at the highest risk of suffering damage from the rising sea level it has ever been over the past 500 years. The international team of environmental scientists that conducted the investigatio... |
29 October 2009
06:21 GMT |
|
|
NASA's Swift satellite is the first spacecraft to have spotted the first signs from the earliest known explosion in the entire Universe. The phenomenon is believed to have taken place about 13 billion years ago, when the Cosmos was just around 700 million years old. The star that exploded sent forth a massive am... |
29 October 2009
02:57 GMT |
|
|
Scientists who recently completed a new genetic research on the issue say that at least 30 percent of Americans may be innate bad drivers. The experts argue that those who have a variant of a certain gene were proven in the investigation to not be able to keep their cars on the road as efficiently as other people cou... |
29 October 2009
02:17 GMT |
|
|
A new scientific study is the first to demonstrate that mothers and daughters look just like each other, expression- and appearance-wise, when they pass a certain age. The investigation reveals that, at least around the eyes, the patterns in which the skin gets saggy, wrinkled, thin, and less elastic are exactly the ... |
28 October 2009
10:06 GMT |
|
More: next 50 >> |
|
|
