Simply imagining scenes such as a sunny day or a night sky can cause your pupils to change size, a new study finds. Pupils automatically dilate (get bigger) or contract (get smaller) in response to the amount of light entering the eye. ...
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It's not unusual for people to say they feel much better after dropping gluten from their diets, even though they don't have celiac disease, digestive experts report. What these people describe has come to be called "non-celiac gluten ...
Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but anyone browsing this collection of glass crystallisation images beheld by Edgar Zanotto’s eye is unlikely to disagree with his assessment of beauty. In this book, Zanotto celebrates 36 ...
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Along with red, green is the color of this holiday season. And bright green is showing up in more than just decorations. ?In Guangdong Province in Southern China, ten transgenic piglets have been born this year, six of them since August, ...
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Late this month, ESA's Mars Express will make the closest flyby yet of the Red Planet's largest moon Phobos, skimming past at only 45 km above its surface. The flyby on 29 December will be so close and fast that Mars Express will not be ...
It's likely the world in the not-so-distant future will be increasingly populated by computerized people like Amal Graafstra. The 37-year-old doesn't need a key or password to get into his car, home or computer. He's programmed them to ...
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The surface of Mars is full of activity, with dust storms, dust devils, and drifting dunes in constant motion. Scientists suspect that similarly rich activity may exist underneath the surface, even though it has never been seen. Now in a ...
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While climate change negotiators struggle to agree on ways to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, they have paid inadequate attention to other greenhouse gases associated with livestock, according to an analysis by an international ...
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In theory, Maxwell's demon can decrease the entropy of a system by opening and closing a door at appropriate times to separate hot and cold gas molecules. But as physicist Leó Szilárd pointed out in 1929, entropy does not ...
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Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay: E-Cigarettes Added to NYC's Smoking Ban Electronic cigarettes have been added to the ban on smoking in New York City offices, parks, ...
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The most-recognized anti-infective brand in North America is Cipro. The brand was most-recognized by 7 percent of physicians in a survey conducted by Brand Institute Inc. during the second quarter of 2013. Cipro, comprising ciprofloxacin, ...
U.S. and Australian researchers say the cause of aging in mammals may be reversible and the key is the chemical NAD that facilitates cell communication. Senior author David Sinclair of the Harvard Medical School in Boston and colleagues ...
E-cigarette as relative effective way of quitting smoking has obtained follower. As a complicated quit-smoking product, ecigarette gains increasing research support. Western countries' Ministry of Public Health declared that current ...
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Bendable materials are changing how we think of and use substrates. R&D announcements are made nearly daily on new scientific research that will help enable flexible electronics (electronic products that are bendable or those that can be ...
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Bristol Instruments The thickness of materials such as specialty plastic films, medical membranes, and ophthalmic products is measured with reliable accuracy. VICTOR, NEW YORK February 5, 2013 – Bristol Instruments, Inc., a leader ...
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