Parked cars get dangerously hot, even on cool days, Stanford study finds
...temperature after an hour, and the air conditioner trick only delayed the temperature spike by about five minutes. "If more people knew the danger of leaving their children in the car, they probably wouldn't do it," McLaren said. The solution is simple, she added: take your child with you when you park the...Schizophrenia: Delusion without illusion
...sion can be more accurate than non-sufferers. "The trick here was to use an illusion where a failure to use context worked to the advantage of people with schizophrenia. This was critical because people can perform poorly for lots of reasons, but superior performance tends to be for a specific reason and i...Mirrors can trick the brain into recovering from persistent pain, research suggests
...ther this system can be corrected using mirrors to trick the brain, researchers asked a number of patients with complex regional pain syndrome (a chronic debilitating condition affecting 10,000 20,000 patients in the UK at any one time) to carry out routine exercises in front of a mirror. More than half e...... and mobiles a boost Electrons in a spin the new trick behind the iPod and Google Mail revolution...Feeling fat in the festive season? It's all in your mind
...tudy led by UCL (University College London) used a trick called the Pinocchio illusion to scan people's brains while they experienced the sensation that their waists were shrinking. The study reveals which parts of the brain are involved in body image and may shed some light on anorexia and body dysmorphic...Advance in cholera bacteria points to new treatment and vaccine
...inding this particular sugar, we could essentially trick the infecting bacteria to bind to the sugar included in a derivative of oral rehydration therapy solution instead of the intestine," said study co-author Brooke Jude, a fourth-year PhD student at Dartmouth Medical School. A vaccine for cholera alre...MIT thinks small to find safer metals
...at the resulting alloy is as hard as chromium. The trick is a new twist on electroplating that involves manipulating -- on the nanoscale, or billionths of a meter -- how the nickel and tungsten atoms are laid down as they are plated onto another metal. While so-called hard chromium is used to coat indust...UC receives $3.4 million NIH grant to study treatment for HIV and hepatitis C
...s could be cured of accompanying hepatitis C. "The trick is to control the chronic viral infections without doing irreparable harm to the liver," Dr. Sherman says. "You can live with one kidney or one lung but, as the old saying goes, your liver is your life." About 30 patients with both HIV and hepatitis...Is it time to give the NHS more independence?
... more effectively than at present. He believes the trick is to deal with the democratic deficit in policy making and commissioning while giving much more operational freedom to healthcare providers. A second article, by Gwyn Bevan, Professor of Management Science at the London School of Economics, argues...New research effort to translate basic science into faster bone healing
...has developed a gene therapy with the potential to trick the body into revascularizing and remodeling transplanted bone, making transplants more likely to succeed over time. The CORT grants were awarded to four of the 28 institutions that applied, with successful applications proposing a large body of r......o reach a zone with small gold-aptamer clumps. The trick lies in the special structure of these clumps: they are aggregates of nanoscopic gold spheres coupled to short DNA strands, some containing the biomolecule biotin. The DNA sequences are complementary to two regions of the cocaine-specific DNA aptamer...When the label says 'low fat,' calories can pile up, study says
...he regular version," Wansink said. "Low-fat labels trick people into eating more than regular labels. But the cruel twist is that these labels have an even more dramatic impact on those who are overweight. They are at danger for really overindulging when they see something with a low-fat label. If we are l...Drug treatment slows macular vision loss in diabetics
... ability to shut down VEGFs signaling would do the trick because its highly likely that VEGF is the culprit when it comes to diabetic macular edema," says Nguyen. More than 4 million diabetics in the United States have diabetic retinopathy and, according to the National Eye Institute, one in 12 of those...Reading Shakespeare has dramatic effect on human brain
...rain is a bit like a magic trick; we know what the trick means but not how it happened. Instead of being confused by this in a negative sense, the brain is positively excited. The brain signature is relatively uneventful when we understand the meaning of a word but when the word changes the grammar of th...Garlic hope in infection fight
...me of which may develop antibiotic resistance. The trick is not to allow Pseudomonas to use natural selection as a weapon against us."...Mimicking how the brain recognizes street scenes
... the biological model turns computer vision from a trick into something really useful," said co-author Stanley Bileschi, a post-doctoral researcher in the Poggio lab. He and co-author Lior Wolf, a former post-doctoral associate who is now on the faculty of the Computer Science Department at Tel-Aviv Univer...Revealing secret intentions in the brain
...how a person has decided to act in the future. The trick by which the invisible is made visible lies in a new method called "multivariate pattern recognition". A computer is programmed to recognize characteristic activation patterns in the brain that typically occur in association with specific thoughts. O...A sweet step toward new cancer therapies
...n't know which part of the tree it came from." The trick is to make breaks that cut across the ring structures, rather lopping off branches. By using metals as charge carriers, the researchers were able to do just that, yielding valuable structural information. In a project that continues to build on thi...Study puts us one step closer to understanding the function of sleep
... is back to the way it was the morning before. The trick is to downscale all the connections by the same percentage, so the ones that were stronger are still stronger. That way you don't lose the memory." Without this type of weakening, he says, we "would not be able to learn new things" because our brai...Brightening prospects of using fluorescent nanotubes in medical applications
...w them to bind to specific biological targets. The trick is to do so without dimming or extinguishing the nanotubes delicate fluorescence. An example of the possible medical applications of nanotube fluorescence is a collaboration that Hertel and Associate Professor of Biomedical Research Duco Jansen are p...