Shiva is twice his normal weight and carries much of it in his belly.
Shiva sits around too much, eating rich, fatty foods and sipping sugary drinks, like many these days. He has the pot belly to prove it, one that nearly touches the floor — when he’s on all fours, that is.
Continue reading… “Scientists Fatten Up Monkeys to Study Human Obesity”
Obsessive compulsive disorder is a specific psychiatric disorder characterized by obsessional thoughts and compulsive behavior.
An electrical treatment which zaps away symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) can help extreme sufferers unable to cope with everyday life, a ground-breaking study has shown. The pacemaker-like therapy, known as Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS), involves passing a weak current through thin wire electrodes inserted deep into the brain.
Diet soda increases your risk of vascular events.
For years diet soda has been portrayed as the “healthier soda” choice because it has no calories. But zero calorie sweeteners like saccharin and aspartame come with risks including a link with bladder cancer, brain tumors, and osteoporosis. If that’s not reason enough to put down the frighteningly sweet bubbled beverage, new research recently presented at the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference in Los Angeles found that daily intake of diet soda increases your risk of vascular events by 61 percent, according to a story on the Today Show.
Continue reading… “Daily Intake of Diet Soda Could Increase Risk of Vascular Events”
An employee at BMW rests between shifts at the plant in Dingolfing.
Its name is a byword for providing drivers with every comfort – and now it seems BMW is taking the same approach with its workforce. A section of the luxury car manufacturer’s works at Dingolfing in Southern Bavaria has been nicknamed ‘Altstadt‘ – German for Old Town – by the grateful employees who say they might otherwise be on the job scrapheap. (Pics)
Continue reading… “BMW Opens New Car Plant Where the Workforce is All Aged Over 50”
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It’s not quite Professor Xavier-level mind control, but researchers at AutoNOMOS Labs in Germany have developed a system that drives a vehicle by reading a person’s brain waves. So this is what it feels like to watch the future.
Continue reading… “BrainDriver – Researchers Drive Car with Their Minds”
Desktop machine turns plastic into fuel.
Plastic bags help you carry your groceries home, they make excellent liners for smaller-sized trash cans, and now they can help you to heat your home. A Japanese inventor has found a way to convert plastic grocery bags, bottles and caps into usable petroleum.
Continue reading… “New Invention Converts Plastic Grocery Bags Into Fuel at Home”
A student holds his hand-held GPS, which will help track his whereabouts and will help him stay in school.
Frustrated by students habitually skipping class, police and school officials in Anaheim are turning to GPS tracking to ensure they come to class.
Continue reading… “Kids Who Skip School in California Are Tracked by GPS”
The world’s most detailed 3D model of HIV.
We’re always suckers for a good art/science mashup, so perhaps it’s no surprise that we’re feeling pretty good about today’s release of the 2010 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge winners. This year’s winning entries included the most detailed 3-D model of the HIV virus ever made (above), a sweeping infographic primer on the many ways fungi impact our lives, and a non-interactive media project that tracked 3,000 pieces of garbage from their origins in Seattle to destinations across the U.S. (Pics)
Anti-lasing
The laser — a 50-year-old invention now used in everything from CDs to laser pointers — has met its match in the “antilaser,” the first device capable of trapping and canceling out laser beams.
Continue reading… “Scientists Invent World’s First Anti-Laser”
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The X PRIZE Foundation has announced the official roster of 29 registered teams competing for the $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE, an unprecedented competition to send a robot to the Moon that travels at least 500 meters and transmit video, images, and data back to the Earth. This group of teams signifies this new era of exploration’s diverse and participatory nature as it includes a huge variety of groups ranging from non-profits to university consortia to billion dollar businesses representing 17 nations on four continents. The global competition, the largest in history, was announced in September 2007, with a winner projected by 2015.
