News tagged with human experiment
Scientists examine how social networks influence behavior
Conventional wisdom holds that it's not what you know, it's who you know. But now scientists studying networking are starting to realize that when it comes to much in life, it's also who the people you know know, and perhaps ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 22, 2009 |
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Stranger knows best: Other people know more about what will make us happy than we do
(PhysOrg.com) -- Want to know what will make you happy? Then ask a total stranger -- or so says a new study from Harvard University, which shows that another person's experience is often more informative than ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 19, 2009 |
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A greenhouse in space
(PhysOrg.com) -- It's small, but it's a greenhouse for space voyagers – and for you. Paolo Nespoli will take a special greenhouse with him to the International Space Station and he’s inviting young ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 10, 2010 |
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Chimpanzee studies suggest speech perception not a uniquely human trait
We all know that experience is a powerful teaching tool: practice remodels neural connections and leads to mastery. Now scientists suggest that it is early experience with language—and not special innate cognitive ability—that ...
Oct 31, 2011 |
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Futuristic wall display shows real-time energy usage
(PhysOrg.com) -- There's more to the home energy conservation system designed by Queensland University of Technology industrial design graduate Erica Pozzey than meets the eye.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Feb 27, 2012 |
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Researchers consider ancestry of recent fossil finds
(PhysOrg.com) -- Someday a future intelligent organism could sweep away a million years of dust and find the bones of a Homo sapiens and wonder what he was.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 21, 2011 |
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No experience required: Category-specific brain organization in sighted and blind humans
A new study finds a surprising similarity in the way neural circuits linked to vision process information in both sighted individuals and those who have been blind since birth. The research, published by Cell Press in the ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 12, 2009 |
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