Aug 05 2011

Invisible Shark Shield Put to the Test

Tag: Animals,Fear,Predators,Sharks,Technology,Water Sports — Alyssa Danigelis @ 1:18 pm
A nonlethal electronic shark-deterrent will be used for an attempt at a record-breaking swim through shark-filled waters.

Aug 05 2011

Invisible Shark Shield Put to the Test

Tag: Animals,Fear,Predators,Sharks,Technology,Water Sports — Alyssa Danigelis @ 1:18 pm
A nonlethal electronic shark-deterrent will be used for an attempt at a record-breaking swim through shark-filled waters.

Aug 02 2011

What’s Behind This Summer’s Shark Encounters?

Tag: Animals,Atlantic Ocean,Fear,Great White Sharks,Humans,Oceans,Predators,Sharks — Jennifer Viegas @ 5:31 pm
Encounters between humans and sharks are common this summer, but it's unclear which species is becoming more brazen.

May 16 2011

Youthful Ingenuity Honored at Intel Science Fair

Tag: Animals,Asteroids,Bacteria,Building,Ceremonies,Chemistry,Community,Devices,Disaster Scenarios,Earth,Engineering,Experiments,Family Members,Fear,Fish,Flies,Fruit,Hearing,High School,Inventions,Kids,Laboratories,Meteorites,Nobel Prize,Nuclear Science,Particles,Plants,Plastic,Recipes,Science,Scientists,Sight,Spiders,Technology,Transportation,Tumor,Yeast and Bread Machine — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 6:24 pm
Young scientists receive awards in international competition.

Mar 29 2011

Japan on ‘Maximum Alert’ Over Nuclear Plant

Tag: Earthquakes,Fear,Government,Nuclear Science,Seafood,Tsunami — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 3:24 pm
Japan said on Tuesday it is on "maximum alert" over a crippled nuclear plant where highly radioactive water has halted repair work and plutonium has been found in the soil.

Mar 14 2011

Japan Struggles to Manage Nuclear Leaks

Tag: Aging,Army,Building,Cars,Disasters and Accidents,Earthquakes,Elderly,Elementary School,Explosions,Fear,Government,History,Materials,Military Personnel,Nuclear Science,Police,Safety,Seas,Ship,Tsunami,USGS,Vehicles — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 1:15 am
The operator of an earthquake-hit Japanese nuclear plant said Sunday that the cooling system of another reactor was not working and risked a possible explosion.

Jan 03 2011

Why Being Grossed Out is Good for You

Tag: Bacteria,Culture and Traditions,Etiquette and Languages,Fear,Humans,Hygiene,Parasites,People, Society and Beliefs,Worms — Jessica Marshall @ 4:42 pm
Maggots. Rotten meat. Pus-oozing sores. Grossed out yet? Probably. And a good thing, too. Just as fear protects us from a lion that would eat us disgust keeps us away from tiny little animals that would kill us.

Dec 16 2010

The No-Fear Woman (And What Her Brain Reveals)

Tag: Emotions,Fear,Haunted Places,Life Science,Mental Health — Emily Sohn @ 5:00 pm
Scientists study the brain and behavior of a woman known as "SM" who laughs when most people tremble.

Nov 08 2010

Tarantulas Provoke Brain’s Fear Circuits

Tag: Fear,Spiders,Tarantula — Jessica Marshall @ 7:01 pm
Understanding which brain regions fail to function normally when confronted with fear could one day help treat people with phobias.

Aug 23 2010

Beyond the Black Box

Tag: Air Travel,Aircraft,Artifacts,Atlantic Ocean,Aviation,Batteries,Birds,Child,Colleges,Communication,Computers,Design,Devices,Disasters and Accidents,Electronics,Engaged,Engineering,Engines,Events,Experts,Eye,Fall,Father,Fear,Glass,Government,Health Insurance,History,Internet,Inventions,Investigation,Lawsuits,Logging,Mining,Movies,Murder,Navy,Oceania and Australia,Office,Officer,Polar Regions,Privacy,Radio,Safety,Satellites,Science,Seas,Sensors,Storage,Streams,Submarine,Suicide,Technology,The Future,Touch,Transportation — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 7:00 am
Instead of storing flight data on board, aircraft could easily send the information in real time to the ground.
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