Art therapy not so therapeutic for schizophrenics
For people with schizophrenia, UK national treatment guidelines recommend group art therapy to improve mental health and social functioning, but…
Arctic warming causing increased snowfalls?
New evidence put forward by Georgia Institute of Technology atmospheric scientists links increasingly heavy snowfalls in the Northern Hemisphere to…
Rosemary’s curious psychoactive effects explored
Recognized since ancient times for its medicinal properties, scientists at Northumbria University (UK) are now uncovering how rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis)…
Dopamine therapy turbocharges artistic drive
Pathological gambling and hypersexuality are two of the better documented side-effects of Parkinson’s disease medications, but researchers say that dopamine…
Wireless breakthrough in self-propelled implantable medical devices
Stanford scientist Ada Poon this week demonstrated a tiny, wirelessly powered, self-propelled medical device to attendees at the International Solid-State…
GPS location systems under increasing attack
A monitoring group in the UK has detected dozens of GPS jamming incidents as well as the first case of…
Female brain frazzled by mild dehydration
Mild dehydration – which occurs when the body has lost just 1.5 percent of its normal water content – can…
Energy poverty killing more people than malaria
A lack of clean energy for cooking is causing severe respiratory diseases that kill around two million people each year,…
Is texting stunting our reading skills?
The general assumption that text messaging encourages unconstrained language is a myth, says Canadian linguist Joan Lee, who contends that…
Tiny new reptile species discovered
Four new species of miniaturized lizards have been identified in extreme northern Madagascar. The zoologists responsible for the discovery suggest…
“Cloaked” buildings could withstand earthquakes, say UK scientists
While much media attention has been paid to the development of an invisibility “cloak” that works with electromagnetic waves such…
How to spot Internet dating liars
A linguistic analysis carried out by US communications experts has revealed a list of tell-tale language traits that liars use…
Calorie intake linked to cognitive impairment
Consuming more than 2,100 calories per day appears to double the risk of cognitive impairment in the elderly, according to…
Cancer drug reverses Alzheimer’s
In a discovery the researchers describe as “unprecedented,” a cancer drug (bexarotene) already approved by the FDA has been shown…
Milky Way’s black hole in asteroid feeding frenzy
The X-ray flares that are observed on a daily basis from the giant black hole at the center of the…
Missing tree rings invalidate climate reconstructions
Penn State researchers have called into question the common practice of using tree rings to reconstruct past climate events, showing…
Gender behaviors directly manipulated
Uncovering the individual genes that are directly influenced by testosterone and estrogen has allowed University of California, San Francisco scientists…
Wireless charging proposed for electric cars
An innovative wireless system that charges electric cars while they are on the road could also be used to control…
Brain waves reveal mind’s internal voice
Eavesdropping on the brain’s internal monologs or communicating with locked-in patients may one day be a reality, as scientists learn…