Reading a face is tricky business
... brain. Though such microexpressions as a brief flash of fear are unlikely to be consciously noticed, they still get picked up by the brain and make their way through the visual system. The effect can alter perception and the way other people are treated or judged, the study concludes. Even though ou...Liverpool amongst first in UK to install unique DNA sequencing technology
... in that it uses an enzyme found in fireflies as a flash light to help read the DNA strand. Scientists from all over the UK will be able to use the new technology for a variety of different purposes, from cancer research to veterinary science. Researchers at Liverpool, for example are looking at DNA seq...Left-right wiring determined by neural communication in the embryonic worm
...worm AWC neurons. Then Bargmann and Chuang had a flash of insight: Since, like handedness, AWC asymmetry arises before the animal is fully developed, maybe they needed to examine the nervous system of the embryonic worm. Using an electron microscope, they discovered that the developing worm's neural netw...Build parks to climate proof our cities
...ly has a limited effect in reducing run-off and so flash flooding will become an increasing problem in our cities. "Conversely, the warmer, drier summer months will reduce the amount of water available to plants and, during the longer droughts, this will reduce transpiration with its associated cooling e...Mystery of fossilized trees is solved
... stumps of fossilised trees were uncovered after a flash flood in Gilboa, upstate New York, more than a century ago. However, until now, no-one has known what the entire trees looked like. Two years ago, two fossils were found near Gilboa of trees which had fallen sideways, with their trunk, branches, tw...First impressions: Computer model behaves like humans on visual categorization task
...limpse of an image, less than the time it takes to flash two video frames, people can still accurately report an object's category, even though they are barely aware of what they have seen. In parallel, computational neuroscientists have traced the flow of information from the retina through increasingl...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- February 14, 2007
...ears, the researchers state. In contrast, CD-ROMs, flash memory and hard disk drives can easily fall victim to accidents or natural disasters. In their report, the researchers describe a method for copying and pasting data, encoded as artificial DNA, into the genome of Bacillus subtilis, (B. subtilis) a ...The last wild hunt -- Deep-sea fisheries scrape bottom of the sea
...uper trawlers over 600 feet long are equipped with flash freezers and giant fuel tanks that allow them to stay at sea for months going from place to place, mining rich areas of fish to depletion, then moving on. "All fisheries are turning gradually into deep-sea fisheries because they have fished them ou...How does your brain tell time?
...rain processes a sensory event, such as a sound or flash of light, it triggers a cascade of reactions betwe...sponse of many neurons in the brain to a tone or a flash of light, the response would not only reveal the nature of the event, but the other events that prec...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...hael Koenigs and Daniel Tranel Most of us feel a flash of anger at being treated unfairly, particularly when it comes to money. But can you make a rational decision that salvages the best available outcome? According to Koenigs and Tranel, the answer depends on the activity of your ventromedial prefronta...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- December 6, 2006
...n pregnancy Stripping away lead-based paint in a flash Developing seeds for growing whole gardens of id...TE RELEASE Stripping away lead-based paint in a flash Environmental Science & Technology A new paint stripper that combines the principles of a vacuu...U of M researchers invent 'flashy' new process to turn soy oil, glucose into hydrogen
...versity of Minnesota team has invented a "reactive flash volatilization process" that heats oil and sugar a...lecules of oil or sugar. "The secret is ultrafast flash volatilization [vaporization]," said Schmidt. "It happens here because we vaporize the fuel and mix ...Some key laboratory breast cancer cell lines are, indeed, good models for the 'real' disease
...es with more than a dozen tumor biopsies that were flash frozen just after they were taken from a breast cancer patient. They compared the cells' "transcriptome," the set of messenger RNA molecules being produced or active when the tissue was frozen. "This shows exactly which constellations of genes were...USGS presents a world of science at GSA in Philadelphia
...tal, Caracas. A series of severe storms triggered flash floods and debris flows that stripped some hillsides entirely, eroding 15-20 million cubic yards of soil and rock. About 30 miles of the coast were inundated, and 15,000 people were killed. What made these landslides so severe and what does it tell ...ACS news service Weekly PressPac -- August 16, 2006
...s.org/cen/ ) will be accompanied by an interactive flash presentation. ARTICLE #5 EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE AT 9 A.M., AUG. 21, 2006 "A Periodic Table of Nanoparticles: Like chemical elements, nanoparticles of distinct types combine in definite proportions" FOR FULL TEXT CONTACT: Michael Bernstein ACS Ne...New flood-tolerant rice offers relief for world's poorest farmers
...hat are prone to seasonal flooding. These seasonal flash floods are extremely unpredictable and may occur at any growth stage of the rice crop. Although rice is the only cereal crop that can withstand submergence at all, most rice varieties will die if fully submerged for too long. When the plant is co...New flood-tolerant rice offers relief for world's poorest farmers
...that are prone to seasonal flooding. Theseseasonal flash floods are extremely unpredictable and may occur atany growth stage of the rice crop. While rice is the only cereal crop that can withstand submergence atall, most rice varieties will die if fully submerged for too long.When the plant is covered wi...Electric fish in Africa could be example of evolution in action
...e characteristic electric impulse resulting in the flash of signals, indicating, for example, aggression, courtship and fear. While the fish may be able to understand other species' impulses, said Arnegard, "They seem to only choose to mate with other fish having the same signature waveform as their own." ...News tips from The Journal of Neuroscience
...aptic response encodes signal-to-noise rather than flash strength. Thus, at low sensitivity, the substantial noise in the circuitry limits the response of ganglion cells and maintains these output cells within their dynamic spiking range. 4. Memantine Revisited Catherine Creeley, David F. Wozniak, Joanne......ect, such as a cell, organelle, or protein, with a flash of light and then to follow the object's movement over time," said Konstantin Lukyanov, whose group conducted the Dendra research in the lab of his brother, Sergey Lukyanov, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) international research scholar at t...