Computer Accurately Detects Pain
Pretend to hurt to get out of work or school? Researchers led by a UC San Diego scientist have found a way to give you a real pain. The researchers have…
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Elephants Have Learned to 'Understand Human'
Whether we realize it, African elephants (Loxodonta africana) are listening to us. The pachyderms can tell certain human languages apart and even determine our gender, relative age, and whether we’re…
Bisphenol A (BPA) at Very Low Levels Can Adversely Affect Developing Organs in Primates
Bisphenol A (BPA) is a chemical that is used in a wide variety of consumer products, such as resins used to line metal food and beverage containers, thermal paper store…
Baby Steps Toward Healing Hearing
There is no biological cure for deafness—yet. We detect sound using sensory cells sporting microscopic hairlike projections, and when these so-called hair cells deep inside the inner ear are destroyed…
Frogs and Bats Use Water Ripples to Eavesdrop on Frog Calls
Communication requires a sender, a receiver, and a message. But communication doesn’t take place in a vacuum. Often, there are unintended receivers listening in and unintentional messages getting across. Illustrating…
When Danger is in the Eye of the Beholder – UCLA Anthropologists Study How, Why We Read Into Potential Peril.
They went boating alone without life vests and gave no thought to shimmying up very tall coconut trees. And although they were only figments of a writer’s imagination, the fictional…