Friday, December 16, 2011
GDP Up, Happiness Down
Happiness has dropped over the last two years, University of Vermont research shows.
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Wednesday, November 02, 2011
Sounds of the Renaissance Reproduced through Acoustical Archeology
A research team used a combination of historical evidence and scientific modeling to recreate the acoustic environment of Renaissance period Venice churches.
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Wednesday, November 02, 2011
Increased Use of Bikes for Commuting Offers Economic, Health Benefits
Cutting out short auto trips and replacing them with mass transit and active transport would yield major health benefits, according to a study just published in the scientific journal Environmental Health Perspectives. The biggest health benefit was due to replacing half of the short trips with bicycle trips during the warmest six months of the year, saving about $3.8 billion per year from avoided mortality and reduced health care costs for conditions like obesity and heart disease.
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Thursday, October 13, 2011
Researchers Reconstruct Genome of the Black Death
An international team—led by researchers at McMaster University and the University of Tubingen in Germany—has sequenced the entire genome of the Black Death, one of the most devastating epidemics in human history.
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Thursday, October 13, 2011
New Method Isolates Best Brain Stem Cells to Treat MS
The prospect of doing human clinical trials with stem cells to treat diseases like multiple sclerosis may be growing closer, say scientists at UB and U of R who have developed a more precise way to isolate stem cells that will make myelin.
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Thursday, September 29, 2011
“Magic Mushrooms” May Create Lasting Personality Change
A single high dose of the hallucinogen psilocybin, the active ingredient in so-called “magic mushrooms,” was enough to bring about a measureable personality change lasting at least a year in nearly 60 percent of the 51 participants in a new study, according to the Johns Hopkins researchers who conducted it.
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Friday, September 16, 2011
Video Games May Not Boost Cognition
Over the past decade, many studies and news media reports have suggested that action video games such as Medal of Honor or Unreal Tournament improve a variety of perceptual and cognitive abilities. But in a paper published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, Walter Boot, an assistant professor in Florida State University’s Department of Psychology, critically reevaluates those claims.
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011
500 Years Ago, Yeast’s Epic Journey Gave Rise to Lager Beer
An international team of researchers believes it has identified the wild yeast that, in the age of sail, apparently traveled more than 7,000 miles to make a fortuitous microbial match that today underpins the $250 billion a year lager beer industry.
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Wednesday, July 20, 2011
NASA’s Hubble Discovers Another Moon Around Pluto
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope discovered a fourth moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto. The tiny, new satellite—temporarily designated P4—was uncovered in a Hubble survey searching for rings around the dwarf planet.
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Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Genetic Research Confirms That Non-Africans Are Part Neanderthal
Some of the human X chromosome originates from Neanderthals and is found exclusively in people outside Africa.
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