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- You can wash away your troubles, with soap
- Biologists find 'surprising' number of unknown viruses in sewage
- Illusory memories can have salutary effects
- Monkeys 'move and feel' virtual objects using only their brains
- One room -- 63 different dust particles? Researchers aim to build dust library
- Practical play: Interactive video games appear valuable for ICU patients
- Triple rainbows exist, photo evidence shows
| You can wash away your troubles, with soap Posted: 05 Oct 2011 03:05 PM PDT "Wash away my troubles, wash away my pain," goes the song. Is there such a thing as soap and water for the psyche? Yes: Metaphor is that powerful, say authors of a new review.  |
| Biologists find 'surprising' number of unknown viruses in sewage Posted: 05 Oct 2011 02:26 PM PDT Though viruses are the most abundant life form on Earth, our knowledge of the viral universe is limited to a tiny fraction of the viruses that likely exist. In a new paper, researchers found that raw sewage is home to thousands of novel, undiscovered viruses, some of which could relate to human health.  |
| Illusory memories can have salutary effects Posted: 05 Oct 2011 02:07 PM PDT "False memories tend to get a bad rap," says developmental psychologist Mark L. Howe in a new article. Indeed, remembering events incorrectly or remembering events that didn't happen can have grave consequences, such as the criminal conviction of an innocent person. "But false memories are a natural outcropping of memory in general. They must have some positive effect, too."  |
| Monkeys 'move and feel' virtual objects using only their brains Posted: 05 Oct 2011 10:16 AM PDT In a first ever demonstration of a two-way interaction between a primate brain and a virtual body, two trained monkeys learned to employ brain activity alone to move an avatar hand and identify the texture of virtual objects.  |
| One room -- 63 different dust particles? Researchers aim to build dust library Posted: 05 Oct 2011 09:22 AM PDT Researchers recently isolated 63 unique dust particles from their laboratory -- and that's just the beginning. The chemists were testing a new kind of sensor when dust got stuck inside it, and they discovered that they could measure the composition of single dust particles.  |
| Practical play: Interactive video games appear valuable for ICU patients Posted: 05 Oct 2011 08:18 AM PDT Interactive video games, already known to improve motor function in recovering stroke patients, appear to safely enhance physical therapy for patients in intensive care units, new research suggests.  |
| Triple rainbows exist, photo evidence shows Posted: 05 Oct 2011 08:10 AM PDT Single rainbows are inspiring, double rainbows are rare, but tertiary rainbows have been elusive until a meteorologist provided guidelines that showed how to find them. Few people have ever claimed to see three rainbows arcing through the sky at once. In fact, scientific reports of these tertiary rainbows were so rare that until now many scientists believed sightings were as fanciful as Leprechaun's gold at a rainbow's end. These legendary optical rarities have finally been confirmed, thanks to photographic perseverance and a new meteorological model.  |
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