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The Historyscoper's Science and Technology Watch Blog Apr. 2, 2015

Saturday, March 12, 2011

The Short Sleeper Phenomena

http://bigthink.com/idea_feed_items/4982

A New Cancer Revelation

http://bigthink.com/idea_feed_items/4983

Reading in Two Colors at the Same Time: Patterns of Synesthesia Brain Activity Revealed

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110309082341.htm

Americans Have Higher Rates of Most Chronic Diseases Than Same-Age Counterparts in England

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110309073721.htm

Early Male Friendship as a Precursor to Substance Abuse in Girls

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110310112328.htm

NASA Study Goes to Earth's Core for Climate Insights

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110311140706.htm

New View of Human Nerve Cells Opens Door to Potential Drug Targets

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110311131726.htm

Scientists: Flash of light to brain removes fear

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/085528-2011-03-11-scientists-flash-of-light-to-brain-removes-fear.htm

World money meltdown can start in surprising places, physicists say

http://www.world-science.net/exclusives/100825_crisis.htm

From brain science, new questions about free will

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/100701_freewill.htm

Mappiness iPhone App Measures Happiness in the U.K.

http://www.fastcompany.com/1683303/mappiness-iphone-app-measures-happiness-in-the-uk

Friday, March 11, 2011

Cuban Atlantean Bronze Age Evidence

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/085495-2011-03-11-cuban-atlantean-bronze-age-evidence.htm

High-Volume Portable Music Players May Impair Ability to Clearly Discriminate Sounds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110309102150.htm

Defective Plastics Repair Themselves

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110309091441.htm

Aspirin's Ability to Protect Against Colorectal Cancer May Depend on Inflammatory Pathways

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110309113024.htm

New Technology Would Dramatically Extend Battery Life for Mobile Devices

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110310141433.htm

Coffee Drinking Linked to Reduced Stroke Risk in Wome

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110310173204.htm

Weed-Eating Fish 'Key to Reef Survival'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110310093802.htm

A Glove on Your Hand Can Change Your Mind

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110310131006.htm

New Bowel Cancer Evidence Calls for Routine DNA Repair Test

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110308101445.htm

New Robot System to Test 10,000 Chemicals for Toxicity

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110310143802.htm

Engineered Protein Has Potential for New Anti-Inflamatory Treatment

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110310141431.htm

Scientists Develop High-Tech Crop Map

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110310112319.htm

Boy Toddlers Need Extra Help Dealing With Negative Emotions, Experts Urge

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110308124916.htm

Abnormal Neural Activity Recorded from the Deep Brain of Parkinson's Disease and Dystonia Patients

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110309102148.htm

Aging Rates, Gender Gap in Mortality Similar Across All Primates

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110310141427.htm

Erectile Dysfunction Drug Improves Exercise Tolerance in Young People With Congenital Heart Disease

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110310131053.htm

Banana Peels Get a Second Life as Water Purifier

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110309113030.htm

Work Climate the Main Reason Women Leave Engineering, Survey Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110310101341.htm

New Switching Device Could Help Build an Ultrafast 'Quantum Internet'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110310131058.htm

Scientists Discover Cause of Rare Skin Cancer That Heals Itself

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110310101345.htm

'Love Song' of the Fly Shows How Nervous System Initiates, Controls and Utilized Behavior

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110309125029.htm

Alcohol Has Stronger Impact on Gastric Bypass Patients, Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110310121029.htm

As We Sleep, Speedy Brain Waves Boost Our Ability to Learn

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110308124748.htm

How Do We Combine Faces and Voices?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110309101809.htm

Web-Crawling the Brain: 3-D Nanoscale Model of Neural Circuit Created

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110309131928.htm

New H1N1 Mutation Could Allow Virus to Spread More Easily

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110309162119.htm

How Long Does a Tuning Fork Ring?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110308124914.htm

Cerebral Spinal Fluid Guides Stem Cell Development in the Brain

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110309125151.htm

Voyager Seeks the Answer Blowin' in the Wind

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110308144446.htm

Electromechanical Circuit Sets Record Beating Microscopic 'Drum'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110309131926.htm

An Advance Toward Blood Transfusions That Require No Typing

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110309113032.htm

Learning to See Consciously: Scientists Show How Flexibly the Brain Processes Images

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110309125031.htm

Cell Component Involved in Triggering Cat Allergy Identified

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110309182104.htm

A-Ha! The Neural Mechanisms of Insight

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110309125145.htm

How Plants Sort and Eliminate Genes Over Millennia

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110309125153.htm

Which Side of the Brain Rotates a Mental Picture?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110309091443.htm

Study: Why skin doesn't dissolve in the bath

http://www.helium.com/items/2113164-why-skin-doesnt-dissolve-in-the-bath

Scientist plans on resurrecting Tyrannosaurus Rex

http://www.helium.com/items/2113014-scientist-plans-on-resurrecting-tyrannosaurus-rex

Backyard Astronomer Nabs Stupendous Sun Photo

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-03/backyard-astronomer-nabs-stupendous-sun-photo

Ugandan scientists grow GM banana as disease threatens country's staple food Ban on GM crops waived after bacterial disease causes annual banana crop losses of $500m

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/09/gm-banana-crop-disease-uganda

Diamonds deliver on cancer treatment Carbon nanoparticles promise multifaceted benefits in transporting drugs.

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110309/full/news.2011.149.html

Mexico Approves GM Maize Pilot Project

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/03/09-1

US House Subcommittee Votes To Kill Net Neutrality

http://politics.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/03/09/2323209

Researchers Develop Biofuel Alternative To Ethanol

http://tech.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/03/09/2344201

Text Messages To Replace Stamps In Sweden

http://mobile.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/03/10/0134236

DIY Laser Pistol Shoot 1MW Blasts

http://hardware.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/03/10/1436212

Brown Dwarf Hits Record Low

http://science.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/03/10/1514221

How Do People Respond To Being Touched By a Robot?

http://hardware.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/03/10/1548203

Laughing 'better than latest technology for leg ulcers'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12699016

Thursday, March 10, 2011

New Form of Muscular Dystrophy Identified: Mutation in Important Muscle Protein Causes Muscle Disease and Cognitive Impairment

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110309182654.htm

Toward Real Time Observation of Electron Dynamics in Atoms and Molecules

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110309112908.htm

Model Organisms? Broadening the Biological Lexicon to Bolster Translational Research

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110309125155.htm

Intelligent Microscopy: Software Runs Experiments on Its Own

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110124074011.htm

Open-Source Software Is Actually More Secure for Health Care IT, Study Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110308124756.htm

Synthetic Biology: Novel Kind of Fluorescent Protein Developed

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110309112900.htm