Articles in the Category: The Brain
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips, The Brain on 02 11th, 2010 | No Comments
The Love Hormone Field Test
It’s a rare occasion when a scientist can test a theory outside the confines of a laboratory. So when Paul Zak got a call from New Scientist reporter Linda Geddes to take her blood at her wedding, he just couldn’t say no.
Dr. Zak is an ocytoxin researcher who studies social indicators of...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Food and Nutrition, Health and Medicine, SciClips, The Brain on 11 27th, 2009 | No Comments
Tired from Tryptophan
Did you fall into a turkey coma? Well, if you did don’t blame it on the much-maligned tryptophan. It was more likely something else, like all the starch in stuffing or sugars in candied yams that made you need a nap.
New research is finding that carbohydrate-rich meals help tryptophan cross the...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Books, Featured Articles, Physics and Chemistry, Psychology, SciClips, The Brain on 09 17th, 2009 | No Comments
Dan Brown’s Quantum Entanglement
Entangled Photons and The Lost Symbol
Avid fiction aficionados have anxiously awaited author Dan Brown’s latest rip-snorting adventure through the mysterious. The Lost Symbol is Brown’s new book, which features the largely unknown field of noetic sciences as a means to move his plot along.
Loosely...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Artificial Intelligence, Backyard Science, Biology, Computer Science, Diseases, Featured Articles, Global Warming, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Math, Nanotechnology, Physics and Chemistry, Plants, RawAudio, SciClips, Space, The Brain on 06 8th, 2009 | No Comments
Science For All
In a move to take science from the lab and place it in the public square, the World Science Festival is about to start its second year of inciting curiosity.
REALscience talked with organizer and physicist Brian Greene to hear what we can expect at this year’s festival.
Photo: Physicist and Co-Founder...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Featured Articles, New Discoveries, The Brain, Video on 05 4th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Birds Dance to the Beat
After poring over about 1,000 YouTube videos researchers have discovered that some animals can bebop to the beat. The movie shows three excerpts of videos analyzed in this experiment. Each excerpt is at a tempo different from the original song (Everybody, by the Backstreet Boys; 108.7 beats per minute...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Engineering, Featured Articles, Physics and Chemistry, The Brain, Video on 04 20th, 2009 | No Comments
Twitter Your Brains Out
The newest social media kid on the block is now a conduit for thought-provoked messages. Scientists at the University of Wisconsin have figured out how to send short text messages to microblogging service Twitter just by thinking about it.
Using brain waves to communicate sounds a lot like science fiction...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, The Brain, Video on 04 2nd, 2009 | No Comments
Dream Recorder
A Japanese science lab is developing technologies to visualise images and dreams – and eventually read people’s minds.
The resolution is very low and images are still blurry but this is the first step toward making your dreams come true – or at least being able to show them to friends...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Consumer Safety, Diseases, Health and Medicine, SciClips, The Brain on 04 1st, 2009 | No Comments
Toxic Tub
Chemicals pervade consumer products and most of them are unregulated. Many of them are harmful in large doses. But all pose potential hazards to children, especially babies.
A new report by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics has found two cancer-causing chemicals in baby shampoos and foaming soaps.
To...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Consumer Safety, Diseases, Featured Articles, Food and Nutrition, Health and Medicine, The Brain, Uncategorized, Video on 03 25th, 2009 | 1 Comment
HowCast: Become a Medical Test Subject
Looking for a way to make extra money and help further medical research?
Try becoming a medical test subject and give yourself over to the warm embrace of science where you can make up to $50,000 a year.
Before starting, go here:
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and here…
GPGC.net
to see if you qualify.
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Bioethics, Diseases, Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, SciClips, The Brain on 03 6th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Animal Research Under Fire
Scientists who do research on animals are being harassed, having their test subjects stolen, their families threatened, homes flooded and cars bombed. Even administrators who aren’t doing direct animal research are being targeted by extreme animal activists.
The first arrests under the Animal...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Anthropology, Physics and Chemistry, Science of..., The Brain, Video on 03 4th, 2009 | No Comments
Chemistry of Love
Dr. Helen Fisher, the author of Why Him, Why Her talks about the power of love–from a chemical point of view. The chemicals dopamine, serotonin, estrogen, and testosterone and are powerful forces in attracting a mate.
Does the opposites-attract idea hold up under scientific scrutiny? Or is like...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Consumer Safety, Diseases, Health and Medicine, SciClips, The Brain on 02 11th, 2009 | No Comments
Vaccine-Austism Research Discredited
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Concern over the link of vaccines and diseases like autism and even multiple sclerosis have created a confusing medical climate. Some parents are torn between vaccinating their children against things like measles, mumps and rubella or risking exposure to those diseases that are...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in 12 Days of Science, Consumer Safety, Environment, Food and Nutrition, Health and Medicine, SciClips, The Brain on 12 11th, 2008 | No Comments
Toxic Tots
12 Days of Science: Day 3
Environmental toxins are all around. And, many consumer products contain these man made compounds that damage organs, mutate cells or disrupt one biological system or another. From bath toys to shower curtains, these chemicals are seeping into our lives.
Two Reports:
Body Burden:...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Artificial Intelligence, Biology, Computer Science, Diseases, Engineering, Math, SciClips, The Brain on 11 26th, 2008 | No Comments
Six Degrees of Internet Black Holes
Hidden Metric Space, courtesy of CAIDA, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego.
Scientists are worried that the Internet is becoming a clogged superhighway, complete with bottlenecks where information seems to disappear.
These electronic misfires are called Internet black holes. And, they seem...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Health and Medicine, SciClips, The Brain on 11 10th, 2008 | No Comments
Surfing the Brain Waves
Functional MRI brain scans shows reading (left) and Web searching (right), courtesy of UCLA.
Reading has often been seen as the best medicine for keeping a mind alert. Now the digital age is giving the Internet a shot at becoming a way to prevent or slow down the effects of aging on the brain.
New...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Computer Science, Diseases, Genomics, Health and Medicine, SciClips, The Brain on 07 17th, 2008 | 2 Comments
Spinal Cord Atlas Unveiled
Courtesy of Allen Brain Institute
Thousands of spinal cord injuries and disease could disappear overnight if doctors and scientists could figure out how to turn some genes off and others on.
This medical mystery is getting a boost from the institute funded by billionaire Paul Allen. Today, the mouse...
Modified mouse confronts cats
Scientists in Japan have created a genetically modified mouse that is unafraid of cats. It’s like the old Tom & Jerry cartoons…but real.
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Memory Stick
Dr. Edward Awh courtesy of University of Oregon
There’s a perfectly good explanation why we can’t remember everything. …Uh, what was it again?
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