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Hit a 90 Mph Baseball? Scientists Pinpoint How We See It Coming
May 8, 2013 — How does San Francisco Giants slugger Pablo Sandoval swat a 95 mph fastball, or tennis icon Venus Williams see the oncoming ball, let alone return her sister Serena's 120 mph serves? For the first ... > full story -
Weeks After Stroke, Some Patients Develop Chronic, Debilitating Pain
May 8, 2013 — Nearly 1 in 10 stroke patients suffer chronic and debilitating pain, typically described as sharp, stabbing or burning. It is treatable with medications and magnetic or electrical stimulation of the ... > full story -
World's Most Extreme Hearing Animal: The Greater Wax Moth
May 8, 2013 — Researchers have discovered that the greater wax moth is capable of sensing sound frequencies of up to 300 kHz -- the highest recorded frequency sensitivity of any animal in the natural ... > full story -
Rats Take High-Speed Multisensory Snapshots: Smell and Touch, Sniffing and 'Whisking,' Are Locked in Sync
May 7, 2013 — New research from the laboratory shows that rats create high-speed "snapshots" of the environment by synchronized use of the senses of smell (sniffing) and touch (through their whiskers). Furthermore ... > full story -
Do Bats Know Voices of Friends They Hang out With? Bats May Recognize Voices of Other Bats
May 7, 2013 — Is it possible that mammals have the ability to recognize individuals of the same species, whom they know well, by their voice? A new study has found that even in nocturnal, fast-moving animals such ... > full story -
Ice Age Ancestors Might Have Used Words in Common With Us
May 7, 2013 — New research shows that Ice Age people living in Europe 15,000 years ago might have used forms of some common words including I, you, we, man and bark, that in some cases could still be recognized ... > full story -
Critical Link in Mammalian Odor Detection Identified
May 6, 2013 — Researchers at the Monell Center have identified a protein that is critical to the ability of mammals to smell. Mice engineered to be lacking the Ggamma13 protein in their olfactory receptors were ... > full story -
More Than a Good Eye: Robot Uses Arms, Location and More to Discover Objects
May 6, 2013 — A robot can struggle to discover objects in its surroundings when it relies on computer vision alone. But by taking advantage of all of the information available to it -- an object's location, size, ... > full story -
Study Provides Clarity on Supplements for Protection Against Blinding Eye Disease
May 6, 2013 — Adding omega-3 fatty acids did not improve a combination of nutritional supplements commonly recommended for treating age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a major cause of vision loss among older ... > full story -
Bonding With Your Virtual Self May Alter Your Actual Perceptions
May 2, 2013 — When people create and modify their virtual reality avatars, the hardships faced by their alter egos can influence how they perceive virtual environments, according to ... > full story
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