Archive: 12/20/2006
On the golf tee or pitcher's mound, brain dooms motion to inconsistency
If you've ever wondered why your golf swings, fastballs or free throws don't quite turn out the same way each time, even after years of practice, there is now an answer: It's mostly in your head. That's the finding of new ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Dec 20, 2006 |
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Contrary to Common Wisdom, Some Mammals Can Smell Objects Under Water
A Vanderbilt researcher has discovered that some stealthy mammals have been doing something heretofore thought impossible -- using the sense of smell under water.
Biology /
Dec 20, 2006 |
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Extreme autumn temperatures cause unseasonable flowering in the Netherlands
Observers in the Netherlands reported that more than 240 wild plant species were flowering in December, along with more than 200 cultivated species. According to biologist Arnold van Vliet of Wageningen University, ...
Dec 20, 2006 |
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It Is Too Early To Be Santa's Sleigh, Isn't It?
Astronomers at ESO's frontline Paranal Observatory got a surprise on the morning of 18 December when looking at the observatory's all-sky camera, MASCOT. For about 45 minutes in the early morning, an object ...
Dec 20, 2006 |
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‘Atom-chips’ research wins multi-million pound funding
Physicists at The University of Nottingham are to use refrigerators made from light that can cool atoms to the lowest temperature in the Universe to develop the next generation of ultra-small electronic devices.
Dec 20, 2006 |
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Androgen therapy may slow progress of Alzheimer's disease
Experiments on mouse models of Alzheimer's disease (AD) suggest that treatment with male sex hormones might slow its progression. The findings, published in the December 20 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience, provide new in ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Dec 20, 2006 |
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Impulsiveness linked to activity in brain's reward center
A new imaging study shows that our brains react with varying sensitivity to reward and suggests that people most susceptible to impulse -- those who need to buy it, eat it, or have it, now -- show the greatest activity in a r ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Dec 20, 2006 |
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ANL releases award-winning vehicle simulation modeling software
Argonne National Laboratory's Powertrain System Analysis Toolkit (PSAT) enables designers to overcome time and cost constraints for advanced vehicle design, such as hybrid and fuel cell vehicles. Because it would be impossible ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 20, 2006 |
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Dinosaurs -- stones did not help with digestion
The giant dinosaurs had a problem. Many of them had narrow, pointed teeth, which were more suited to tearing off plants rather than chewing them. But how did they then grind their food? Until recently many researchers have ...
Biology /
Dec 20, 2006 |
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Can Neutrons be Used in Quantum Computers?
“In quantum mechanics, you typically have arguments about locality and non-locality,” Yuji Hasegawa tells PhysOrg.com. “But in our experiment we are testing correlation between degrees of freedom.”
Dec 20, 2006 |
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Human-chimp difference may be bigger
Approximately 6 percent of human and chimp genes are unique to those species, report scientists from Indiana University Bloomington and three other institutions. The new estimate, reported in the inaugural ...
Biology /
Dec 20, 2006 |
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