History of Earth Sciences Society joins AGI
... the various ways in which earth sciences has been perceived throughout history. Their goal is to bridge the gap between the humanities and sciences by bringing together earth scientists interested in the development of their field and historians interested in the geosciences. The international scope gives the...Young athletes ignore skin cancer risk
...ortunately today if you have a little color you're perceived as being healthy or better looking. "The problem is that a tan is a bad response. It's the body's last attempt to protect itself against ultraviolet (UV) light damage and the subsequent mutations that UV rays induce in the skin cells. It's your skin'...Nose odors and mouth odors: The brain distinguishes
...es from the mouth. "The illusion that retronasally perceived odors are localized to the mouth is so powerful th...asally and retronasally, whereas nonfood odors are perceived only orthonasally. Therefore, it is possible that the route of stimulation may have different effect...The 'been there, done that' memory response
...medial temporal lobe activity tracked the level of perceived memory strength for the faces. What's more, the ME...nce between the present fMRI and MEG correlates of perceived memory strength suggest that graded reductions in medial temporal cortical responses support graded ...Research: removal of dominant rivals causes male cichlid fish to undergo remarkable transformation
...ity to reproduce." No one had any idea before that perceived changes in their social status could begin altering animals' behavior and appearance so quickly, she said. Previous studies had shown the changes took as long as a week and were associated with increased fertility. Burmeister's report on her experime...Humans are governed by emotionsliterally
...s gave the president broad powers in response to a perceived crisis that did not leave sufficient time for deliberation. "War is the quintessential issue where immediate emotions and passions hold sway, often at the expense of an evaluation of long-term consequences," Lobel said. The authors draw on recent res...Color perception is not in the eye of the beholder: It's in the brain
... showing an obvious consensus over what color they perceived yellow to be. Once Williams looked into their eyes, however, he was surprised to see that the number of long- and middle-wavelength cones--the cones that detect red, green, and yellow--were sometimes profusely scattered throughout the retina, and som...ECCO 13 offers new insights into patients' perceptions of cancer
...ant to conventional treatment, and to identify the perceived value of this complementary approach, a study of 304 recently diagnosed cancer patients was undertaken with funding by the Department of Health. Patients attending two cancer centres were surveyed over a 3-month period to determine CAM use before and...Turning sensation into perception
... made the monkeys more likely to respond that they perceived a vibration, whether the vibrating stimulus was occurring or not. Romo and de Lafuente also found that MPC neurons began to fire before the stimulus even touched the monkeys' fingertips. Romo believes this is because the monkey is expecting the stimu...Joslin Diabetes Center study shows benefits of online discussion boards
...ion and encouragement as well as bolsters people's perceived ability to cope with diabetes, according to a new study from Joslin Diabetes Center. The study, which appears in the November/December issue of The Diabetes Educator, examined the impact of Joslin's online Discussion Boards -- forums in which people ...Bird song changes sound alarm over habitat fragmentation
... This suggests that males from fragmented habitats perceived as rivals only the close neighbours with which they engaged in counter-singing." "Communication systems of habitat-sensitive species might be used as a behavioural indicator of anthropogenic environmental deterioration. Because of their rapidly evolv...Carnegie Mellon researchers find links between happiness and health, but questions remain
... merely predicting good objective health from good perceived health masquerading as positive emotions. Cohen and Pressman suggest that future research focus on determining how emotions "get under the skin" to influence health. In other words, what behavioral or physiological changes do positive emotions trigg...Soy diet worsens heart disease in mice, says University of Colorado at Boulder study
...ted, she said. Soy foods and diet supplements are perceived to be a huge health benefit to humans, as evidenced by the estimated $4.7 billion spent by consumers on them in 2005, said Leinwand. "I don't think normal, healthy people should be alarmed by the results of this study," said Leinwand. "But we are s...Penguins waddle but they don't fall down, UH researchers say
... speculate that this may be rooted in the animals' perceived vulnerability, lack of threat and soft physiques. For UH researcher Kurz, his subjects' funny, cuddly nature is just an incidental advantage. His current research will provide a springboard for future studies on the unique locomotive strategies of p...Weizmann Institute suggests that immune cells help to maintain cognition and brain cell renewal
...e immune system is denied entry as its activity is perceived as a possible threat to the complex and dynamic ne...n the healthy individual, their presence there was perceived as an outcome of the body's failure to eliminate them. But Schwartz's group showed that these autoi......,000 years ago to contest some prior models of the perceived behavioral and cognitive differences between Neanderthals and modern humans. Instead, the researchers suggest that developments in the social realm of modern human life, allowing routine use of distant resources and more extensive division of labor, ...Argonne researchers contribute 1000th structure
...g from raising defenses to fight disease and other perceived threats to cell death. Thrombospondins are a family of extracellular glycoproteins that regulate cellular behavior during tissue genesis and repair such as wound healing. These functions are mediated by its interaction with a proteins and proteoglyc...University presidents: NY must act on stem cell research
...l similarly migrate to those institutions that are perceived to be on the cutting edge of biomedical research. A decline in the fortunes of New York's biomedical research community would have significant economic consequences for the entire state. New York's State universities, teaching hospitals, and research...Facial characteristics indicative of personality traits, say experts
...versity of St Andrews, asked participants to judge perceived age, attractiveness, and personality traits of rea...o had been married for a long period of time, were perceived as having more similar personalities than those who had not been together very long. This may come ...The rising tide of ocean plagues: How humans are changing the dynamics of disease
...d us to wash it in the ocean - seawater was always perceived to be clean and healthy. We are seeing ominous signs that this is changing - surfers in California are now advised to have regular hepatitis inoculations and you really don't want to expose an open wound to near shore water," says Dobson. "We shoul...