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Monday, 27 July 2009 |
U.S. neuroscientists tested people to see if they are honest or dishonest when making gambling bets. The people were analyzed with brain scans to see if they cheated or not in their answers. The answer lies in the toss of a coin.
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Sunday, 26 July 2009 |
The nonprofit group World Action on Salt and Health performed a study of salt in breakfast cereal and fast foods, and found a big difference in the amount of salt in the same product. It just depends on which country you live.
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Sunday, 26 July 2009 |
The Njoy company has issued a news release stating that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's analysis concerning its E-cigarette contains "omissions" and "scientific inconsistencies." Njoy is having an independent third party analysis performed on the FDA study.
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Saturday, 25 July 2009 |
The Hubble Space Telescope was detoured in its recalibration, after being refurbished by the NASA STS-125 astronauts in May 2009, to take images of the recent impact spot on Jupiter, which was discovered by an Australian amateur astronomer on July 19, 2009.
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Saturday, 25 July 2009 |
NASA just announced that the Chandra X-ray Observatory is now ten years old, twice as long as it was expected to image the invisible universe. And, it is still discovering many exciting phenomena in this high-energy universe of black holes, dark matter, and other exotic objects.
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Friday, 24 July 2009 |
On Wednesday, July 22, 2009, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a warning to users of electronic cigarettes: "The products we reviewed so far we found to be illegal."
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Thursday, 23 July 2009 |
A Swedish led team of scientists has developed a test that involves the compound amyloid-beta and two tau proteins within the spinal fluid to help determine if normal memory losses in the elderly is really Alzheimer’s disease.
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Wednesday, 22 July 2009 |
Six minutes, 39 seconds is the maximum duration of the total solar eclipse (seen in some parts of the world), which is due to begin early in the morning of July 22, 2009, starting in the Gulf of Khambhat, east of India.
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Tuesday, 21 July 2009 |
Astronomers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory verified on Monday, July 20, 2009, after receiving an email from an amateur astronomer in Australia, that Jupiter had just been hit with an object, possibly a comet or asteroid.
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Tuesday, 21 July 2009 |
In 1995, the maximum speed limit on interstate highways in the United States was changed from 55 miles per hour (mph) nationwide to a state-regulated system (that resulted in many speeds of 65 mph or above). A research study concludes that the change directly caused an extra 12,500 deaths over the next ten years on U.S. interstates.
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Monday, 20 July 2009 |
According to a study conducted on aloe vera and its ability to cleanse the teeth, it was discovered that aloe vera is also very effective in fighting germs that cause cavities.
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