Applied science news

What do you call a rover that is stuck? Answer: A LANDER!

Tags: Space

Efforts to extricate the Mars Spirit Rover from a sand trap have been abandoned.

Does time dilate during a threatening situation?

The brain structures responsible for a slower perception of time are imaged.

Solar Sails: State of the Art 2010

Tags: Space

The state of solar missions in the year 2010, about upcoming conferences and missions.

when doing the right thing could backfire…

Tags: Medicine

Children born primarily to educated and well off parents may be more likely to be diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder.

Reduced Sleep Means Reduced Physical Activity

Tags: Medicine

Lack of sleep lowers the amount of physical activity while awake.

Becoming better mind-readers - to work out how other people see you, use the right lens

Our failure to accurately judge how others would perceive us appears to stem from an inability to look at ourselves and other people with the level of detail that they would use.

Step away from the cookie jar! Over-confidence in self-control leads us to temptation

Apparently when we're satiated, we overestimate our ability to resist temptation - a phenomenon researchers have dubbed the "restraint bias".

How our skin helps us to listen

Senses from the skin also appear to affect how we perceive speech.

Tamiflu-resistant pandemic influenza H1N1 virus selected by prophylaxis

Tags: Medicine

Using sub-optimal levels of the antiviral drug seems to have given rise to a Tamiflu-resistant strain of H1N1 influenza in a Canadian family.

Dyslexia and the Cocktail Party effect

Activity in regions of the brainstem appear to be modulated by specific characteristics of the speaker's voice, and that this modulation seems to be impaired in children with dyslexia.

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