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(Medical Xpress)—Native peoples in regions where cameras are uncommon sometimes react with caution when their picture is taken. The fear that something must have been stolen from them to create the photo ...

Neuroscience created May 21, 2013 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Quarter-life crisis as common as a mid-life crisis, study says

(PhysOrg.com) -- According to findings presented at the British Psychological Society Annual Conference in Glasgow, young adults are just as vulnerable to suffering a quarter-life crisis as their older counterparts are to ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created May 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Gossip serves a useful purpose after all

(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers in the US have discovered that hearing gossip about a person literally changes the way you see them, and hearing negative information about people makes their faces stand out.

Psychology & Psychiatry created May 20, 2011 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

Early evidence of HPV vaccine impact

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a new study published in Lancet, researchers from Australia report evidence that the vaccine designed to target the human papillomavirus, or HPV, has dramatically dropped the incidence of les ...

Health created Jun 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Newborn Apgar score related to teen school performance

(Medical Xpress) -- According to a new study published in Obstetrics and Gynecology, the Apgar test which is given to newborns one minute and five minutes after birth to evaluate their health is also an ind ...

Health created Jul 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Drawing and doodling can help you learn science: study

(Medical Xpress) -- According to a new study students should be encouraged to use freehand drawings in science class because it will help them learn more quickly.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Aug 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Study shows background noise affects test scores

(Medical Xpress) -- A new study presented at the 162nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America shows that students testing scores are negatively affected by background noise, but not the noise you would expect. The ba ...

Other created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

Cell-replacement therapy could lead to Parkinson's treatment

(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers have developed an efficient way of making specific cells in high numbers that have worked in mice to reverse the damage caused by Parkinson’s disease and hope to be testing these cells ...

Medical research created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Men with deep voice may be lacking in sperm: study

(Medical Xpress) -- Women look for tall, dark and handsome. Those chiseled features and that deep sexy voice have gained the attention of women for generations. However, a new study published in PLoS ONE shows ...

Other created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (8) | comments 11 | with audio podcast report

Paul Allen donates additional $300 million to brain research facility

(Medical Xpress) -- Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, has added an additional $300 million to the $200 million he’s already given to the brain research facility in Seattle he started back in 2003, ...

Neuroscience created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Research team finds compound that can spur cartilage growth

(Medical Xpress) -- A research team from drug maker Novartis has discovered a compound that spurs cartilage growth in mice. As they describe in their paper published in the journal Science, the team has found that when a ...

Medical research created Apr 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Researchers find head turning resets cocktail party effect

(Medical Xpress) -- Anyone who has ever been to a cocktail party knows how difficult it can be to hear and follow conversations due to a host of distracting noises. Some might have even noticed that if they ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Apr 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Human antibody for dengue virus isolated

(Phys.org) -- A group of scientists in Singapore and the UK have isolated a human antibody capable of effectively neutralizing the mosquito-borne dengue virus. Dengue fever is currently incurable and infects ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jun 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Doctors successfully implant synthetic larynx piece into two patients

(Medical Xpress) -- Doctors working at the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, have for the first time, successfully implanted a synthetically grown integral part of the human larynx into two live ...

Medical research created Jun 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Morphine and cocaine affect reward sensation differently

(Medical Xpress)—A new study by scientists in the US has found that the opiate morphine and the stimulant cocaine act on the reward centers in the brain in different ways, contradicting previous theories ...

Medical research created Oct 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report