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UF researchers develop ways to keep the bloom on the rose

...ilers nationally and internationally to spread the word about how best to make flowers last longer. "Sometimes the differences we achieve relate to the flower quality as well as vase life," said Nell, who began working with roses because of their popularity and economic value. He also works with carnatio...

Zebra finches remember songs dad sang

...improvised elements. Birdsong scientists use the word "tutor" to describe the bird whose song the young bird copies and remembers because they've found that a young songbird will form a memory of any adult's song heard during a key period in infancy. In fact, the young bird will remember and imitate the...

Study may help slay 'Yellow Monster'

...ink the water," she noted. There's another Navajo word that Woody shares. It is hozho, which relates to harmony, balance and beauty. Woody explained that the yellow monster disrupts hozho and that uranium should remain in the ground to ensure balance. In fact, in the spring of 2005, Navajo Nation Preside...

Parasitic worms used to fight bowel disease

...sease and other maladies. Also, she is waiting for word on a new NIH grant that will support efforts to learn how the treatment works. "The bottom line right now is that we know none of the mechanisms of how this works," she said. Mansfield, as well as other researchers, also wants to apply this effort ...

MIT 'seeing machine' offers hope to blind

...oldring said. So she asked if they could write the word "sun" and transmit that through the SLO. "And I could see it!" she said. "That was the first time in several months that I'd seen a word, and for a poet that's an incredible feeling." She went on to use the device for many other visual experiences. ...

Some people would give life or limb not to be fat

...se. Implicit attitudes were measured with a timed word categorization task that measured how quickly the respondents associated words like "bad" and "lazy" with "fat people" compared with "thin people." Explicit weight bias was assessed by asking people to rate their preferences for thin and fat people, ...

Pollen proves beneficial for northern lakes

Mention the word pollen to most people and it triggers thoughts of their battle against allergic reactions. However, a University of Alberta researcher has found an important spin-off for this fine yellow dust-like powder. Mark Graham, a PhD student from the Depar...

NYU algorithm enhances ability to detect cancer genes

..."probes"--each one characterizing an almost unique word and its location in the already-sequenced human genome--by combining these probe-measurements, one can estimate if an important genomic segment is missing. By analogy, this process is akin to guessing if a new edition of a book is missing an importan...

Master planners in brain may coordinate other areas' roles in cognitive tasks

...f the brain to achieve a goal, such as reading the word "dog," coming up with verbs associated with the word "dog" or determining the color of the letters in the word "dog." Much of the human brain's power d...

Emotional control circuit of brain's fear response discovered

...ted color word. Performance is typically worse if word and color are incongruent (e.g., YELLOW printed in red ink) than when the two attributes are congruent (RED printed in red ink). For the 2006 Neuron paper, Dr. Hirsch and her team developed an emotional Stroop test with fearful and happy faces, w...

Reading Shakespeare has dramatic effect on human brain

...is technique allows the brain to understand what a word means before it understands the function of the word within a sentence. This process causes a sudden peak in brain activity and forces the brain to work...

Otherworldly bacteria discovered two miles down

...sources. Other communities of "chemoautotrophs"--a word chained together from Greek roots meaning "chemical self-nourishment"--have been found in exotic places such as aquifers, petroleum reservoirs, and vents linked to deep-sea volcanoes. Yet these communities all depend at least in part on nutrients tha...

New dyslexia theory blames 'noise'

...olid mental categories for identifying letters and word sounds. Such children may benefit from intensi...s (one of many possible symptoms having to do with word recognition, directional ability and decoding of symbols). What is known is that dyslexia affect...

Unraveling where chimp and human brains diverge

...dually, it would be similar to reading every fifth word in a paragraph ?you don't get to see how each word relates to the other. So instead we used a systems biology approach to study each gene within its ...

Memories: It's all in the packaging, scientists say

...re also asked if they remembered in what color the word had originally been and in which of the four quadrants it had originally appeared. If the participant could later remember the color of the word, a particular area of the brain associated with color processing was especially active during learning...

Good times ahead for dinosaur hunters, according to U of Penn scientist's dinosaur census

...diction, however statistically sound, is the final word on dinosaur diversity," Dodson said. "My intention is to fuel the discussion using the facts at hand, and this is the best estimate we can make with the data available." ...

Molecular atlas provides new tool for understanding estrogen-fueled breast cancer

...h the ER takes place. The researchers coined the word "cistrome" to describe the map they had produced -...tor that acts on DNA); and "ome" -- from the Greek word for manager -- refers to the full set of such segments, as "genome" refers to all the genes within h...

New research shows why too much memory may be a bad thing

...es or long-ago events, may have a harder time with word recall or remembering the day’s current events. They may have too much memory ?making it harder to filter out information and increasing the time it takes for new short-term memories to be processed and stored. Published in the Proceedings of the Na...

Brain fends off distractions

...ere as an ´intended´ word. Peach is a very similar word and can confuse the study subject. Therefore Veling termed this a distracting word. Sheep has got nothing to do with mango and is therefore a neutral word. Quicker The test revealed that the study subjects remembered distracting words less w...

Molecular tools make the cut

...ere as an ´intended´ word. Peach is a very similar word and can confuse the study subject. Therefore Veling termed this a distracting word. Sheep has got nothing to do with mango and is therefore a neutral word. Quicker The test revealed that the study subjects remembered distracting words less w...

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