Aug 04 2011

Swedish Man Builds Nuclear Reactor in His Kitchen

Tag: Community,Crime,Experiments,Green,Hearing,Kitchens,Materials,Nuclear Science,Police,Safety,Video — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 3:24 pm
The man contacted Sweden's nuclear authority and asked if it was permitted for an individual to build a nuclear reactor.

May 26 2011

How We ‘Feel the Noise’

Tag: Ear,Hearing,Music,Musicians and Bands,Senses,Skin,Touch — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 10:05 pm
Links in the brain can connect the sensations of sound and touch.

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.

Aug 18 2010

Teen Hearing Loss Rate Worsens

Tag: Childhood,Ear,Hearing,Kids,Music — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 3:29 pm
The percentage of adolescents with some decline has increased since 1990s, a study shows.

Jul 30 2010

Fishing Industry Fears Oil’s Lingering Effects

Tag: Boat,Disasters and Accidents,Explosions,Fish,Fishing,Hearing,Jobs,Money,Oil Spill,Safety,Scientists,Seafood,Seas,Summer,Trial — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 3:45 pm
Fishermen have been an integral part of cleanup operations, but they could end up losing their jobs for a second time.

Mar 31 2010

U.S. Judge Strikes Down Gene Patents

Tag: Bacteria,Biotech,Biotechnology,Breast Cancer,Disasters and Accidents,DNA,Engineering,Fear,Genes,Genetic Science,Hearing,Inventions,Judaism,Lakes,Lawyer,Life Science,Lung Cancer,Men,Nature,Office,Parents,Royalty and Rulers,Science,Scientists,Shakes and Smoothies,Video,Women,Women's Health — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 4:21 pm
Genes cannot be patented, said a judge, because isolated DNA is not markedly different from DNA as it exists in nature.

Mar 16 2010

Accent Speaks Louder Than Race for Finding Friends

Tag: Babies,Child,Childhood,Communication,Etiquette and Languages,Geography,Hearing,Humans,Kids,Schools,Sleep,Video — Cristen Conger @ 12:00 pm
Children prefer to make friends with those whose speech patterns -- rather than skin color -- mimic their own.

Feb 24 2010

Brain ‘Hears’ Sound of Silence

Tag: Brain and Central Nervous System,Ear,Hearing — Cristen Conger @ 5:01 pm
While we think of silence as the absence of sound, the brain detects it nonetheless.