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Pilot Study: Fibromyalgia Fatigue Improved By TENS Therapy

Fibromyalgia is the term for a poorly-understood condition where people experience pain and fatigue...

High Meat Consumption Linked To Lower Dementia Risk

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Long Before The Inca Colonized Peru, Natives Had A Thriving Trade Network

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The common imagery of prehistoric people is either rooting through dirt for grubs and picking berries...

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True Green Energy? Water-Based Artificial Leaf Produces Electricity

True Green Energy? Water-Based Artificial Leaf Produces Electricity

Sep 24 2010 | comment(s)

Water-gel-based solar devices, what researchers liken to "artificial leaves", can act like solar cells to produce electricity, bringing technology a bit closer to solar cells that more closely mimic the efficiency of nature and farther from the disaster of today that advocates want mandated and subsidized for questionable benefit.

If it pans out, they will be less expensive and more environmentally friendly than silicon-based solar cells.

The bendable artificial leaves are composed of water-based gel infused with light-sensitive molecules – the researchers even used plant chlorophyll in one of the experiments – coupled with electrodes coated by carbon materials, like carbon nanotubes or graphite.
Thermal Grill Illusion Shows How Clenching Your Hand Cools Pain

Thermal Grill Illusion Shows How Clenching Your Hand Cools Pain

Sep 23 2010 | comment(s)

If you get an injury, you might clench your hand.  It turns out there is a brain-related reason for that,  namely a somatosensory body one.   Perception and multisensory interactions at the spinal level.

A new report in Current Biology says 'self-touch', like hand clenching, offers significant relief for acute pain under experimental conditions and they used the Thermal Grill Illusion to show it.
'Lost Continent' Of Laramidia Finds Two New Dinosaurs

'Lost Continent' Of Laramidia Finds Two New Dinosaurs

Sep 22 2010 | comment(s)

New dinosaurs in a long-forgotten world and you've never heard of it?  Don't be alarmed, the "lost continent" of Laramidia was formed when a shallow sea flooded the central region of North America, isolating the eastern and western portions of the continent for millions of years during the Late Cretaceous Period.  It was a swampy, subtropical setting - in Utah.

But it wasn't the only thing lost.   Two new species of horned dinosaurs have been found in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah. 

Utahceratops gettyi Kosmoceratops richardsoni
Hygroelectric Power - Energy From The Air Could Be The Green Wave Of The Future

Hygroelectric Power - Energy From The Air Could Be The Green Wave Of The Future

Sep 22 2010 | comment(s)

Energy from the air?  How very Tesla of you!   But unlike America's favorite quirky inventor, this isn't transmitted power and no dogs have to die.    It's using moisture from the air - and the more humidity you have the better.

Similar to the way solar cells capture sunlight, hygroelectric collectors would collect moisture and use it to light a house or recharge an electric car.   Bonus: Panels on the rooftops of buildings could prevent lightning strikes - and the technology is already in the early stages of development.
Why Do Some Athletes Choke Under Pressure? (And How To Fix It)

Why Do Some Athletes Choke Under Pressure? (And How To Fix It)

Sep 22 2010 | comment(s)

Are you a brilliant student but can't take tests well?   A star athlete in practice but nerves overwhelm you at game time?   It's common but in varying degrees; the line between someone who worries about performance and therefore does even better and someone who 'chokes' under pressure is fuzzy.
Neanderthals More Adaptable Than Believed

Neanderthals More Adaptable Than Believed

Sep 22 2010 | comment(s)

Did Neanderthals develop `modern' tools and ornaments solely through contact with Homo sapiens, or could they adapt, innovate and evolve technology on their own?  

A new anthropology study challenges a half-century of conventional wisdom that Neanderthals were primitive `cavemen' overrun and out-competed by modern humans arriving in Europe from Africa.