When you are concentrating on something, neural "noise" may cause you to miss important changes in your environment, new research indicates, and this binocular rivalry which occurs when the two eyes view radically different images means the brain temporarily rejects, or suppresses, one of those images in favor of the other.

The image that commands our visual awareness switches between the two over time. This fluctuation in visual awareness enables cognitive neuroscientists to study the neural correlates of awareness and consciousness.

According to results of a study published in Cancer Prevention Research,  men with prostate cancer who consumed the active compounds in green tea demonstrated a significant reduction in serum markers predictive of prostate cancer progression. 

Green tea is the second most popular drink in the world, and some epidemiological studies have shown health benefits with green tea, including a reduced incidence of prostate cancer, according to Cardelli.

However, some human trials have found contradictory results. The few trials conducted to date have evaluated the clinical efficacy of green tea consumption and few studies have evaluated the change in biomarkers, which might predict disease progression.

Sperm bigger than the actual creator of the sperm and phallic mushrooms have been all the rage this week, but immobilized microbes that can break down potentially harmful Phthalic Acid Esters (PAEs), commonly known as phthalates, are big news too, according to researchers writing in the International Journal of Environment and Pollution.   So now we get to talk about phthalic symbols.

Plagued by jet lag?   If we can send a rocket to the moon why can't we figure out how to fly to different time zones and still be fresh?  Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the University of Michigan say they have developed a software program that prescribes a light exposure regimen for avoiding jet lag.

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, June 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- Leaders from five continents back UAE's offer to world's first international renewable energy agency

The United Arab Emirates today completed ratification of the statute of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), signalling to the 98 fellow member countries and the world at large their support and commitment to bringing renewable energy solutions to all nations, developed and developing. The UAE has officially submitted a bid to host IRENA's headquarters in Abu Dhabi, the capital city of the United Arab Emirates.

In the first article on this topic, I suggested that we can measure what people prefer and value, but we don’t know the “why” behind those preferences and values.

An evolutionary psychologist from the London School of Economics, Satoshi Kanazawa, wrote a paper on the origin of individual values and preferences that suggests values are tied to IQ, and you can theoretically predict the values of a nation based on its average intelligence.

Renate Matzke-Karasz from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich  has led an international team of scientists who are studying sperm specimens from the London Natural History Museum’s collections. Their research has revealed fossilized evidence for reproduction using giant sperm in a group of small aquatic crustaceans, called ostracods, dating back to 100 million years ago.

NEW YORK, June 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- Enterprise Data Management Vendor to Co-host Wednesday's Networking Event

GoldenSource Corporation, a leading provider of Enterprise Data Management (EDM) solutions, will be attending the 2009 SIFMA Technology Management Conference to discuss the importance of market and reference data convergence and the role data management is playing in addressing key issues such as risk management, liquidity management and independent pricing and valuation.

GoldenSource will also be co-hosting at the exhibit hall cocktail reception on Wednesday, June 24 in the Hilton exhibit hall.

LONDON, June 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The Bone Cancer Research Trust is calling for new treatments for bone cancers affecting children and young people. This includes osteosarcoma and Ewing's sarcoma, the two most common forms of primary bone cancer.

A study funded by the Bone Cancer Research Trust published in 2009 shows that the survival of children and young adults with bone cancer in the UK has not improved for 20 years.(1) More research is urgently needed to find new treatments. When new treatments are developed, they must be introduced without delay to avoid any more young people dying of this disease. On average a young person cured of this disease would have another 60 years of life.