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 The Surprising Reason Why Some People Smile More It turns out, whether you're quick to laugh and smile may be partly in the genes. "One of these big mysteries is why do some people laugh a lot, and smile a lot, and other people keep their cool," said study co-author Claudia Haase, a psychology researcher at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. The gene was previously tied to depression and other negative states, but the new study suggests it may be linked to people experiencing more emotional highs and lows, Haase added. Read More »Supersonic Parachute on NASA 'Flying Saucer' Apparently Fails in Test (Video) Read More » Does MERS Pose a Threat in the US? Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) is spreading in South Korea, with dozens of people there infected and thousands more under quarantine because they have had contact with an infected person, according to news reports. That's because it's fairly easy to prevent MERS transmission, once doctors realize they are dealing with the virus, said Dr. Amesh Adalja, an infectious-disease physician at the Center for Health Security at the University of Pittsburgh. Most doctors in the United States know to take a travel history and isolate people who may harbor a dangerous virus, which are key steps in stopping transmission in its tracks, he said. Read More »Incredible Surgery Gives Man New Lease on Life Read More » 50 US Hospitals That Mark Up Prices the Most Yet a combination of a lack of regulation, competition and clarity in billing practices enables many hospitals to routinely charge fees to patients that are more than 1,000 percent of the amount that is reimbursable by Medicare, a new study has found. The researchers claim that these markups are largely motivated by profit, not service quality, and that this price-gouging trickles down to nearly all consumers, whether they have health insurance or not, contributing soundly to the high level of U.S. health spending. Topping the list is North Okaloosa Medical Center in Florida, which charges more than 1,200 percent of what Medicare will reimburse for procedures, on average. Read More »Talking Spaceships & Sci-Fi Awesomeness Rule in 2 New SyFy Channel Shows Read More » Italian Astronaut Sets New Record for Longest Space Mission by a Woman Read More » Then There Were 5: Inside the Race to Save the Northern White Rhino Read More » Gangnam Style! Robots Dance & Slither at DARPA Challenge Read More » Life on the Serengeti: Thousands of Wild Images Captured by Hidden Cameras Read More » Creativity May Be Genetically Linked with Psychiatric Disorders There may be an overlap between the genetic components of creativity and those of some psychiatric disorders, according to a new study. In the study, researchers looked at genetic material from more than 86,000 people in Iceland and identified genetic variants that were linked with an increased risk of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. The investigators then looked for these variants in a group of more than 1,000 people who were members of national societies of artists, including visual artists, writers, actors, dancers and musicians in Iceland. Read More »Bird Migrants Offer a Glimpse of the Planet's Health Read More » How a Cell Knows Friend From Foe Read More » Predicting El Niño Devastation, Weeks in Advance Read More » Neuron Probes are Exposing the Brain as Never Before (Kavli Roundtable) Read More » The Three Reasons So Many People are Getting Cancer (Op-Ed) Dr. Bhavesh Balar is a board-certified hematologist and oncologist on staff at CentraState Medical Center in Freehold, NJ, where he serves as chairman of the hospital's Cancer Committee. As an oncologist, I'm frequently asked why so many people these days are being diagnosed with cancer. Considering the significant inroads we've made over the past 50 years in terms of cancer research, prevention, diagnosis and treatment, it doesn't seem to make sense. Read More »Ox Urine to Olive Oil: Fighting Garden Pests Like the Colonists
Scientists solve mystery of milky rain in U.S. Pacific Northwest A multi-disciplinary Washington State University team said they had determined that dust from the dry bed of a shallow lake some 480 miles (772 km) from where the rain fell was to blame for the unusual precipitation. The rain left a trail of powdery residue across a nearly 200-mile (322-km) stretch of eastern parts of Oregon and Washington state earlier this year, leaving scientists and residents perplexed about its origins. All three theories were proven wrong when a Washington State University hydrochemist teamed up with a meteorologist and two geologists at the school to test the chemical composition of rainwater samples and analyze February wind pattern data. Read More »Why Pluto Is a Planet, and Eris Is Too (Op-Ed) Read More » NASA's 'Pluto Time' Shows You How Bright It Is on Dwarf Planet Read More » | ||||
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| Interactive Map Lets You Find Dinosaur Tracks, Extinct Volcanoes Read More » Here's What Zapping Your Brain with Electricity Feels Like But this was no fire ant — it was current flowing through an electrode, oozing conductive gel, that was stuck to my head. Another electrode was strapped to my left arm, and both were connected by a series of wires to a small black box containing some electronics and a couple of 9-volt batteries. Transcranial direct current stimulation, or tDCS, is a noninvasive form of brain stimulation that involves passing a current between electrodes on the scalp. Read More »Why Breadwinner Spouses Are More Likely to Get Cheated On This link between dependency and infidelity occurred in both genders but was strongest for men, perhaps because dependent men feel that their masculinity is threatened, said study leader Christin Munsch, a sociologist at the University of Connecticut. In fact, the idea for the study came about when she was talking with a male friend of hers who had cheated on his financially successful wife, Munsch told Live Science. "He felt like his partner had all the friends, all the money, all the success, because this person wasn't working, and his wife was," Munsch said. Read More »LightSail Spacecraft Wakes Up Again, Deploys Solar Sail Read More » Children learn to write by teaching robots By Matthew Stock Researchers in Switzerland have designed a system where children teach robot students how to write, and in the process improve their own handwriting skills. This learning by teaching paradigm, they say, could engage unmotivated students as well as boost their self-confidence. The prototype system, called CoWriter, was developed by researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne. A humanoid robot, designed to be likeable and interact with humans, is presented with a word that the child spells out in plastic letters. ... Read More »Shady Science: How the Brain Remembers Colors Read More » Are You the 5 Percent? Small Minority Have No Health Problems If you're in perfect health, you're in the minority: Less than 5 percent of people worldwide had no health problems in 2013, a new study finds. Researchers analyzed information on about 300 diseases and conditions — everything from acne and PMS to chronic conditions such as heart disease and diabetes — and more than 2,300 disease-related consequences, in people in 188 countries. Overall, just 4.3 percent of people had no health problems, the researchers found. Read More »Deadly Melanoma May Not Show Up as a Mole Read More » 1 Pinprick Test Could Detect Hundreds of Viruses Called VirScan, the test looks for hundreds of viruses at once, and does so at a fraction of the cost of traditional tests, and with smaller samples of blood, according to the researchers. "We could use a lot less blood [than traditional tests]," said Tomasz Kula, one of the co-authors of the new research and a graduate student at Harvard Medical School. The VirScan test uses these engineered viruses to look for antibodies to each of these viruses in a sample of a person's blood. Read More »FBI's High-Tech Surveillance Planes: 4 Things You Should Know The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation controls a fleet of airplanes equipped with technology that could be used to keep tabs on people from above, according to a new report from The Associated Press. The FBI's surveillance planes are supposedly used only to support the agency's operations on the ground, the AP reports. The FBI has been using small aircraft to support its ground operations (for example, tracking suspects) since at least the 1980s, according to AP's report, which also states that the planes are owned and operated by front companies. Read More »NASA 'Flying Saucer' Launches to Test Mars Landing Tech Read More » First Trailer for 'The Martian' Puts Matt Damon in Peril Read More » NASA's 'flying saucer' lifts off to test Mars landing system Read More » | ||||
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| Korean Robot Takes Home $2M Prize in DARPA Challenge
Origin-of-Life Story May Have Found Its Missing Link Read More » Cross-county bike trip aims to inspire young scientists BOSTON (AP) — Seven students from Harvard and MIT are cycling across America, stopping in many rural towns to get kids interested in science through hands-on workshops to program computers, launch model rockets and build robots. Read More » | ||||
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