Creeping crinoids! Sea lilies crawl to escape predators, new video shows
With their long stalks and feathery arms, marine animals known as sea lilies look a lot like their garden-variety namesakes. Perhaps because of that resemblance, scientists had always assumed that sea lilies stayed rooted instead of moving around lik...APS lecturer shows rare video of 'teacher-student' immune cell interactions in live animal
The saying goes that a picture is worth a thousand words. But these pictures could one day be worth much more -- the lives saved by the development of new vaccines. Harvard University researcher Ulrich H. von Andrian showed the immune system of a live mouse being challenged by a foreign microbe during a presentation at Experimental Biology 2006. The footage gave many of the physiologists i...A reason why video games are hard to give up
Kids and adults will stay glued to video games this holiday season because the fun of playing actually is rooted in fulfilling their basic psychological needs. Psychologists at the University of Rochester, in collaboration with Immersyve, Inc., a virtual environment think tank, asked 1,000 gamers what motivates them to keep playing. The results published in the journal Motivation and Emoti...Teenager moves video icons just by imagination
Now, a St. Louis-area teenage boy and a computer game have gone hands-off, thanks to a unique experiment conducted by a team of neurosurgeons, neurologists, and engineers at Washington University in St. Louis. The boy, a 14-year-old who suffers from epilepsy, is the first teenager to play a two-dimensional video game, Space Invaders, using only the signals from his brain to make movement...Surgeons with video game skill appear to perform better in simulated surgery skills course
In a study involving 12 surgeons and 21 surgical residents, video game skill was correlated with laparoscopic surgery skill as assessed during a simulated surgery skills course, according to a report in the February issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. James C. Rosser Jr., M.D., of Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, and colleagues asked 33 surgeons (21 reside...Detect Released Oligosaccharides Using the Eagle Eye II Still Video Imaging System
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that would allow the telecommunications company to start an Internet protocol video service to compete with cable television. Under the terms of the agreement, which will be considered by the Milwaukee Common Council, AT&T...Cut down TV and video games and you have less aggressive children.
Have you ever wondered why your kids are so aggressive and almost impossible to handle at times? Then read on. World over there is increasing concern over the way the children of today are growing up. Even the West is getting desperate and looking for help. Things are no better in India. With the TV boom and the IT revolution, the kids seem to know all at a very young age and many parent...Parents Should Beware of Violent Video Games
Children who playing video games and use violent moves such as karate kicks can make them aggressive, says a US study. The study by Kevin Kieffer and Jessica Nicoll of Saint Leo University, Florida, shows there's a strong link between 'shoot 'em up' video games // and how children and adolescents behave - at least in the short term, reports the online edition of science journal Nature...Children’s obesity linked to video game
Next generation children’s will be hi-tech whiz kids but would be very obese and lazy as they are more attached to indoor games with no physical activity.// A survey conducted by North East Wales Institute of Higher Education found that there is an increase in obesity in children’s due to no physical activity and poor diet rich in fatty foods due to fast food. Children’s are no more interested i...Poland: Parental warning systems are likely to be adopted in video games.
A new law in Poland comes in to effect. It states that video game producers need to label their products with consumer warnings and suitability for children. This has to be included along with the packaging details. Poland's// Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Policy Joanna Kluzik-Rostkowska told the Rzeczpospolita daily. She said that PEGI (Pan-European Game Information) parental warning sys...Video Games, The Latest Craze Of American Adults
Americans are increasingly orienting themselves to video games, highlights a new poll conducted by Iposs, a leading international polling firm//. According to the poll conducted on 3, 024 American adults, nearly 40% of the respondents admitted that they enjoyed video games. This approximates to a total of 1,046 gamers, taking into consideration the sampling error as well. Most...OLY-220 CCD Color Video Camera
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