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...ack and White men holding either guns or innocuous objects like cell phones and wallets and made quick decisions to 'shoot' armed individuals and 'not shoot' unarmed ones. Behaviorally, participants were faster and more accurate to 'shoot' armed Blacks than armed Whites. By contrast, they were faster to 'not...Cells in retina found to behave like soap bubbles
...en and the young at heart, but they also have been objects of scientific study for centuries. Operating under the laws of physics, bubbles always try to minimize their surface area, even when many bubbles are aggregated together. Now two Northwestern University scientists have demonstrated that the tendency...UF scientists have bionanotechnology recipe to find elusive bacteria
..., molecular-sized scale. Nanotechnology works with objects that are on the order of 1 to 100 nanometers; a nanometer is one-billionth of a meter, about the size of several atoms. When combined with molecular biology, the possible applications of this nano-frontier are widespread and sound like the stuff of s...Perceptual decision-making hub pinpointed in human brain
...rons fire only to the extent that they see certain objects or features, the monkey studies showed. While their brain activity was monitored with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), twelve healthy subjects pressed buttons to indicate whether they saw a face or a house, as images flashed on a compu...Early life stress harms mental function and immune system in later years
... early life stress began to forget the location of objects they had seen before. They also got worse at recognizing objects they had encountered on the previous day. These difficulties worsened as the rats grew older, much m...Psychologist finds instance where 'two wrongs do make a right'
... of the environment within the brain, representing objects from varying locations in our field of vision by systematically varying activity in corresponding regions of the brain. "It's starting to look like the distinction between perception and action streams is an oversimplification," says Dassonville, an ...ORNL project earns top honor from Southeast tech transfer group
...can scan living small animals and other biological objects has been honored as project of the year by the Southeastern Region of the Federal Laboratory Consortium. The MicroCAT X-ray micro-computed tomography for biological research was named as the top project in the Southeast during the organization's O...Science's Breakthrough of the Year: Salty, acidic soup could have supported life on Mars
...ts of radiation. Further studies of these whirling objects may provide the most stringent examination yet of Einstein's general theory of relativity. Plant and Animal Diversity Declines: Disturbing news about the decline of species diversity rolled in from large studies this year that surveyed amphibians,...Thinking small: Texas A&M team creates lab-on-a-chip
..." he notes. "These include living tissue and other objects and substances you don't think of as being magnetic." The new procedures could be applied to other fields, he believes. "Though it has taken several years to achieve the droplet levitation process, we need to see if we can make progress with manipula...B-15A iceberg's close encounter monitored by Envisat
...ent are being posted online daily. Opposing ice objects The largest floating object on Earth, the bottle-shaped B-15A iceberg is around 120 kilometres long with an area exceeding 2500 square kilometres, making it about as large as the entire country of Luxembourg. B15-A is the largest remaining segment...Experimental radar provides 3-D forest view
...s information on depth and also the orientation of objects relative to the instrument. This can then be processed to form a complete three-dimensional picture." In the case of forests, Pol-InSAR typically relies on longer L- or P- band wavelengths upon in preference to the shorter C-band wavelengths used b...Marsh-dwelling mole gives new meaning to the term 'fast food'
...urvey their environment by repeatedly touching the objects around them with their star appendages. Timing the...e flexible fingers also allow the star-nose to tap objects in its environment at a faster rate. These advantages mean that the star-nosed mole can find 14 time......corner. They are programmedto stay in contact with objects they touch, as rats do. But when the robotic "rats" were put into a rectangular arena likethat used for experiments with real rats, the robots showed a newbehavior. They scuttled along the walls and repeatedly bumped intoone corner, but favored one w...Worms, slugs inspire robotic devices
...industrial need for grippers that can pick up soft objects without destroying them. Building grippers to pick up soft materials has been very hard," Chiel explained. "Most gripper devices are fairly rigid and designed to work effectively with things that have a fixed orientation or a certain texture or toug...New slant on vision research: Neurons sensitive to viewing angle
...the facing direction of faces, cars or meaningless objects have yielded evidence that the brain contains nerv...l mechanism that supports the ability to recognize objects viewed from different angles?" said Sheng He, associate professor of psychology, who directed the st...Linking brain to mind in a common genetic disease
...asks relate to how the children mentally represent objects and the spatial relationships among them. In previous research, Dr. Simon has argued that such visual-spatial skills are a fundamental foundation to the later learning of counting and mathematics. "Studies in adults have shown that damage to the post...Busy brains may stave off Alzheimer's signs
...se into cages filled with tunnels, toys, and other objects for five months. Seven similarly engineered mice were kept in less lavishly furnished cages as a comparison group. The enriched mice had higher levels of an enzyme called neprilysin that destroys b-amyloid peptides, the researchers found. After analy...Polymers with copper show promise for implanted sensors
...The problem is, the body responds to these foreign objects in ways that interfere with their ability to accurately measure blood chemistry. In the bloodstream, clots form on the surface of implanted sensors or blood vessels contract around them. Sensors implanted under the skin may become walled off by cells...Harnessing microbes, one by one, to build a better nanoworld
...f nanotechnology remains the assembly of nanoscale objects into more complex systems," says Robert Hamers, a ...ention paid to the ability to manipulate nanoscale objects such as nanotubes and nanowires across electrical contacts, for many applications the use of bacteri...Ophthalmologists and physicists team up to design 'bionic eye'
...rders of magnitude, meaning it can detect both dim objects and those 100 million times brighter, "from moonless night to bright day," he said. It may seem counterintuitive that as it gets processed by the visual system, the signal travels from the back of the eye toward the eye's interior, rather than from t...