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007's Water War Real, Not Fiction Bond is back, with agent 007 battling bad guys over that precious resource: H20. And while the movie "Quantum of Solace" has raked in big bucks, we wondered, how realistic is the plot of this nefarious Bond villain? Tags: James Bond Quantum of Solace 007 secret agent Ian Fleming Daniel Craig Marc Forster Water War Peter Gleick Pacific Institute movie film science video blog |
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Computer Quake Detector Scientists are looking for you to help them catch earthquakes. More precisely, they are looking for your computers to help them monitor for earthquakes better than current sensors can by themselves. Tags: earthquake quake laptop lawrence stanford motion detect vibration |
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Soldiers Get Virtual Reality Therapy for Burn Pain It's pain you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy, lets alone our veterans. But now soldiers enduring treatment for severe burns are being offered a high-tech way of fighting the pain. University of Washington researcher Hunter Hoffman has developed a cool virtual reality game that has actually been shown to make the excruciating rehabilitation fun. Paul Simon's music from the album "Graceland" is played during the game. Tags: veteran army soldier burn pain IED virtual reality physical therapy VR fire snow world lieutenant paul simon hunter hoffman samuel brown skin grafts surgery Iraq cybertherapy |
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See Through Solar Cells Fifty years inthe making, solar-power cells are still flat, rigid, and ugly. But new research shows how they could be made lightweight, flexible, and transparent. These innovations could expand solar-cell use to things like solar fabrics and power generating windows. Tags: Solar Energy cells panels silicon wafer sunlight Powerlight National Renewable Laboratory John Rogers Department of |
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IMAX Film Advances Science Physics is fun - or at least it is for physicists. But to make it fun enough for a big budget IMAX film, Hollywood movie-makers had to talk some scientists into pushing the limits of their own expertise. Tags: IMAX movie Molecules to the Max Physics atoms Rensselaer Polytechnic Dick Siegel Shekhar Garde |
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Threat and Political Views If you've been discussing our Presidential candidates with friends and family, chances are you rarely win any arguments with people who support the other guy. Maybe it's not just stubbornness. New research has found that people with strong opposing political views might also have very different physical responses to threat. Tags: election obama mccain presidential candidate threat politics liberal conservative fear study |
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RoboFish Underwater robots that swim like fish and work together without someone remotely controlling them? While it seems like the premise for a movie, it's actually a project underway right now. Tags: robot fish underwater autonomous vehicle robofish toy remote control auv darpa |
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Baby Scent and Dads A new study on monkeys reveals that the mere scent of their babies turns the father from protector to parent by lowering the levels of the male hormone testosterone. Tags: science video scent marmosets testosterone Wisconsin National Primate Research Center Toni Ziegler Biology Letters infant scents CAT1960 Joyce Gramza Baby Scent Dads |
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Video Games and Biology Video games aren't just for kids. Researchers are now using the same technology that runs games to create realistic simulations of biological systems. As ScienCentral News reports, this approach could speed up research into diseases and drug therapies. Tags: video game spore computer animation biology 3D modeling drug infection therapies graphics card science videos |
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Fly Swat Science Why are flies so hard to swat? It took the world's top fly researchers at Caltech to give us the answer. ScienCentral's Sunita Reed reports on a finding that will give you pointers the next time you reach for your swatter. Tags: caltech cat1930 dickinson lab flight fly fruit swatter Michael Dickinson science articles videos stories |
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Inherited Obesity If you're planning to have children and want to help them avoid getting fat, lose your own fat before you get pregnant. That's the message from researchers who have found obesity during pregnancy can cause lifelong obesity in the next generations. As this ScienCentral News video explains, the good news is that researchers also found a dietary way to reverse this effect. Tags: fat obesity inherited pregnancy diet nutrition folic acid generations |
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Smart Appliances Coming to a house or apartment near you, "Smart Appliances". As this ScienCentral News video explains, researchers are getting appliances to work together to reduce electrical demand, and avoid blackouts. Tags: blackout brownout appliances power outage electricity grid pacific northwest gridwise PNNL energy efficiency CAT1990 smart |
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Highlighting Cancer Cells Cancer surgery is tricky because you dont want to miss any cancer, but you also dont want to cut healthy tissue. Now doctors are testing a new technique that uses a safe chemical highlighter, allowing surgeons to cut by color. See it in this ScienCentral News video. Tags: breast cancer surgery surgeons chemotherapy radiation tumor operating room fluorophore lymph node clinical trial |
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Addicted Brain Changes New research is overturning previous thoughts about how addiction permanently changes the brain. As this ScienCentral video explains, these new insights might lead to new ways of treating addicts. Tags: dendrite spines cowan brain neuron cocain addiction |
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Weight Loss Surgery Cuts Cancer Its already known that weight-loss surgery for morbid obesity can reduce the risk of diabetes and heart problems. Now, new research shows that it may also cut a persons risk of cancer by 80-percent. Tags: weight-loss surgery morbid obesity diabetes cancer gastric bypass McGill University Health Centre Dr. Nicolas Christou Bariatric Surgery CAT1920 |
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Growing Nerve Cells As if winning $1.5 million wasn't enough, the winners of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry also get an enthusiastic "shout out" from us. As storytellers who rely on images or video to report on scientific discoveries , our jobs have been made a whole lot easier thanks to Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, and Roger Y. Tsien. Tags: GFP glowing protein 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Osamu Shimomura Martin Chalfie Roger Y. Tsien green fluorescent mice pathogens body parts pet fish fat Nobelists NAS1032 |
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Cancer Killing Viruses As if winning $1.5 million wasn't enough, the winners of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry also get an enthusiastic "shout out" from us. As storytellers who rely on images or video to report on scientific discoveries , our jobs have been made a whole lot easier thanks to Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, and Roger Y. Tsien. Tags: GFP glowing protein 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Osamu Shimomura Martin Chalfie Roger Y. Tsien green fluorescent mice pathogens body parts pet fish fat Nobelists NAS1032 |
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Stillbirth Law October is National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, in recognition of families who lost babies to miscarriage or stillbirth. But this year, the somber nationwide gatherings marking the occasion are also filled with hope for new legislation that could go a long way toward preventing these tragedies. This ScienCentral News video explains. Tags: stillbirth pregnancy miscarriage SIDS baby parents missing angels bills ruth fretts |
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Tongue Joystick Imagine changing channels or surfing the web with just a flick of your tongue. Researchers have come up with such a device. As this ScienCentral News video shows, its for those who are paralyzed that the system holds the most promise. Tags: paralysis neck injury tongue joystick sensor wheelchair computer virtual keyboard |
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Hot Chili Secret Chili peppers can add a little spice to your dish, but where does that heat come from? As ScienCentral News reports, it's a rare case where we can be thankful for bugs and a fungus. Tags: chili pepper jalapeno spicy capsaicin plant bug fungus |
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Faster Sea Rise A new study indicates that sea level rise due to global warming could double or triple what climate forecasters have previously predicted for the end of the century. Tags: global warming rising seas climate forecast melting glaciers polar bears arctic greenland |
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Baby Talk and Brain Waves Researchers studying the brains of toddlers say the strength of their brainwaves can indicate language ability. As ScienCentral reports, this research might lead to early identification of language impairment. Tags: toddler waves language April Benasich Rutgers neuroscience cognitive electroencephalogram EEG gamma wave Gary Marcus psychology communication Behavioural Brain Research baby brain talk CAT1860 |
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Vote for You! Researchers have shown that voters can be swayed toward choosing a candidate by making the candidate look more like the voter. These visual manipulations were unnoticed, but were enough to swing the 2004 presidential election. The implications of the research go beyond digital manipulation and give a deeper insight into this year's heated race for the White House. Tags: vote morph bush palin mccain obama barak democrat republican election candidate digital manipulation physiology rational voter kennedy nixon debate jeremy bailenson Shanto Iyengar george w. john kerry race racial cat1890 |
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Gene-ography Genes don't just tell whom you're related to or why you look a certain way; now, they can also tell you where you came from. Researchers have created a genetic map of Europe, and they hope to expand it globally, as this ScienCentral News video explains. Tags: gene genetic map geography heritage europe John Novembre November Carlos Bustamante nature dna ancestry glaxosmithkline gsk glaxo database SNP Matthew Nelson genome CAT1850 |
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Green Gasoline In just a few years, "Drill, baby, drill" could be replaced by "Grow, baby, grow." Scientists have shown they can make green gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel from plant sugars -- far different from today's biofuels. Tags: drill grow gasoline diesel jet fuel plant sugars biofuels transportation Jim Dumesic Dumesik Dumesick Domesic petroleum biomass renewable co2 food supply corn stover switchgrass waste cellulose fermentation ethanol hydrocarbons catalyst oil octane propane butane George Huber virent carbon balance biorefinery refinery |
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Fish Comeback Could a change in the rules governing commercial fishing actually reverse a worldwide trend of declining fish populations? As this ScienCentral video explains, a just-released study of where those rules have changed says, "yes". Tags: fish fishing season population ecology fishery collapse acidity global warming Christopher Costello Donald Bren Environmental Science race to stock Alaska halibut fisherman share marine catch-share Steven Gaines |
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Scientists Win Lasker for micro-RNA Discovery The Lasker Foundation has announced that Doctors Victor Ambros, Gary Ruvkun, and David Baulcombe won the Lasker Medical Prize for their discovery of micro-RNA molecules, and their role in gene regulation. Tags: Ambros Baulcombe Ruvkun micro-RNA small RNA DNA nematode peptide cancer treatment gene genetic disease |
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Does Pleasure Get Old? They say youth is wasted on the young, but the truth may be the opposite. A first-of-its-kind study, out today, shows a drastic change in how our brains respond to pleasure and reward as we age. But as this ScienCentral News video explains, the research also shows that our brains can adjust to these changes. Tags: aging brain pleasure reward risk youth golden years dopamine dementia alzheimer's mental illness |
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Monkey See, Monkey Give Researchers have found a group of monkeys that seem to get pleasure from giving. The idea that it's better to give than receive may not be limited to just humans. Tags: monkeys social selfless helping clever intelligent science generosity giving primates |
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Hearing Motion - synesthesia diagnosis demo Do you hear anything when viewing the moving dots? Play the movie repeatedly for best effect. Some people hear sounds when seeing this movie (and also when seeing other examples of moving or flashing objects). The sounds are simple such as whooshing or bubbling, and non-linguistic. The sound perception occurs automatically, not requiring effort or imagination. For more on this test visit: http://www.klab.caltech.edu/~saenz/movingdots.html Courtesy Melissa Saenz at Caltech Tags: synesthesia neurobiology senses sensory perception esp brain hearing motion lsd synaesthesia |