Jun 25 2008
Men And Women Respond Differently To StressThe University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine is reporting research that shows that different parts of the brain are activated in males and females when confronted with a stressful situation. The...
Jun 24 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - People who are bicultural and speak two languages may unconsciously change their personality when they switch languages, according to a U.S. study.Researchers David Luna from Baruch College and Torsten Ringberg and Laura A....
Jun 24 2008
Baby crocodiles “talk” to their mothers and their unborn siblings even before they hatch, perhaps indicating that they are ready to leave the egg, according to new research. French scientists Amelie Vergne and Nicolas Mathevon of Universite...
Jun 23 2008
Metamaterials might be used to create a real-life invisibility cloak, or even a cloak of silence — some day. The Pentagon is seeking short-term gains by using metamaterials for revolutionary new antennas with obvious commercial...
Jun 22 2008
Engineers have designed a material that redirects sounds and could be used to shield objects from noises. The sound-shielding material would be the first acoustic cloaking device.
Jun 21 2008
You may have known this all along, but now it has been demonstrated scientifically: bikinis make men stupid.This month’s issue of the Journal of Consumer Research features a paper titled “Bikinis Instigate Generalized Impatience in Intertemporal...
Jun 20 2008
After a decade of shouting, “Follow the water!” in its exploration of Mars, NASA can finally say that one of its spacecraft has reached out, touched water ice and scooped it up.Now, scientists will be able to tackle the main question they hope to...
Jun 20 2008
A team of experts and students from NICTA and the University of NSW have won first place in a major international technology competition for developing a robotically operated, computer-driven clarinet that runs on Linux.
Jun 20 2008
There is water ice on Mars within reach of the Mars Phoenix Lander, NASA scientists announced Thursday.Photographic evidence settles the debate over the nature of the white material seen in photographs sent back by the craft. As seen in lower left of...
Jun 18 2008
The New York Times has added a new feature to its Web site that takes a few cues from Facebook and Digg: TimesPeople, now in beta.TimesPeople users can build up friends lists and can see a