en-us http://www.newsique.com/tags/science/people/ Get Informed. Choose Your News. http://www.newsique.com/science/camera_aids_memory_loss_fight/ A wearable digital camera may hold the key to helping people who have memory problems, experts believe. Sensecam, produced by Microsoft, takes photos of daily events every 30 seconds so they can be played back later at high-speed to jog memory. Tria news science 2007-12-12 08:21:35 http://www.newsique.com/science/camera_aids_memory_loss_fight/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/health/7138512.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Interesting [6] 80 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/camera_aids_memory_loss_fight/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/black_people_less_intelligent_sc/ One of the world’s most respected scientists is embroiled in an extraordinary row after claiming that black people are less intelligent than white people. James Watson, a Nobel Prize winner for his part in discovering the structure of DNA, has provok news science 2007-10-17 18:38:54 http://www.newsique.com/science/black_people_less_intelligent_sc/ Times Online http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2677098.ece?token=null&offset=0 http://www.newsique.com/sources/times_online/ 93 Shocking [9] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/black_people_less_intelligent_sc/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/high-testosterone_people_feel_re/ Most people don't appreciate an angry look, but a new University of Michigan psychology study found that some people find angry expressions so rewarding that they will readily learn ways to encourage them. "It's kind of striking that an angry facial ex news science 2007-05-12 23:26:37 http://www.newsique.com/science/high-testosterone_people_feel_re/ Science Daily http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070511095337.htm http://www.newsique.com/sources/sciencedaily/ 91 Interesting [10] 65 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/high-testosterone_people_feel_re/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/british_scientists_identify_obes/ A gene that contributes to obesity has been identified for the first time, promising to explain why some people easily put on weight while others with similar lifestyles stay slim. People who inherit one version of the gene rather than another are 70 p news science 2007-04-13 08:20:38 http://www.newsique.com/science/british_scientists_identify_obes/ FOX News http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,265781,00.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/fox_news/ 82 Amazing [15] 80 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/british_scientists_identify_obes/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/scientists_hunt_for_solution_to_/ Scientists are trying to figure out how to get carbon dioxide — the greenhouse gas that's warming the planet — out of the smokestacks of coal-burning power plants before it gets into the atmosphere. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's la opinion science 2007-03-16 20:20:31 http://www.newsique.com/science/scientists_hunt_for_solution_to_/ NPR http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7874053 http://www.newsique.com/sources/npr/ 94 Interesting [6] 80 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/scientists_hunt_for_solution_to_/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/stonehenge_builders_houses_found/ Archaeologists say they have found a huge ancient settlement used by the people who built Stonehenge. news science 2007-01-30 12:43:43 http://www.newsique.com/science/stonehenge_builders_houses_found/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6311939.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Interesting [7] 80 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/stonehenge_builders_houses_found/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/viagra_aids_muscular_dystrophy/ The anti-impotence drug Viagra may help save people with muscular dystrophy from an early death, a study suggests. Researchers found the way the drug works to combat impotence may also help ward off heart failure in muscular dystrophy patients. Test news science 2008-05-13 08:21:41 http://www.newsique.com/science/viagra_aids_muscular_dystrophy/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/health/7395605.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/viagra_aids_muscular_dystrophy/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/cuts_see_green_grants_halved/ The number of government grants made to people who want to fit solar panels or other green energy systems to their homes has halved, the BBC has learned. It comes after the low carbon buildings programme cut the maximum grant on offer from �7,500 to news science 2008-05-12 08:16:23 http://www.newsique.com/science/cuts_see_green_grants_halved/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/7393918.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/cuts_see_green_grants_halved/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/rallying_cry_from_frog_stronghol/ Conservationists have urged people to help frogs continue to thrive in one of their natural strongholds. Dumfries and Galloway is home to nine different native Scottish species of amphibians and reptiles. A new group is now being set up in the regio news science 2008-05-07 08:23:26 http://www.newsique.com/science/rallying_cry_from_frog_stronghol/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/south_of_scotland/7385968.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/rallying_cry_from_frog_stronghol/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/us_blocks_genetic_discrimination/ The United States Senate has unanimously passed legislation banning discrimination on the basis of people's genetic details. The proposal, which passed 95-0, still needs approval from the House of Representatives before it becomes law. It would allo news science 2008-04-25 08:24:34 http://www.newsique.com/science/us_blocks_genetic_discrimination/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/americas/7366264.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/us_blocks_genetic_discrimination/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/bionic_eye_blindness_cure_hope/ A 'bionic eye' may hold the key to returning sight to people left blind by a hereditary disease, experts believe. A team at London's Moorfields Eye Hospital have carried out the treatment on the UK's first patients as part of a clinical study into the news science 2008-04-22 08:26:14 http://www.newsique.com/science/bionic_eye_blindness_cure_hope/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/health/7359282.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/bionic_eye_blindness_cure_hope/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/face_values_applied_to_love_game/ People's attitudes to relationships could be given away by just the look of their face, it has been claimed - with men and women often after the opposite. Researchers said men generally preferred women they perceive are open to short-term sexual relati news science 2008-04-10 08:17:25 http://www.newsique.com/science/face_values_applied_to_love_game/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/north_east/7336578.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/face_values_applied_to_love_game/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/racial_clues_in_bowel_cancer_fin/ Three more genes that raise bowel cancer risk, including one affecting only some races, have been identified. UK scientists found one of the genes increased risk in people of European descent, but not Japanese people, reports the journal Nature Genetic news science 2008-03-31 08:20:43 http://www.newsique.com/science/racial_clues_in_bowel_cancer_fin/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/health/7319251.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/racial_clues_in_bowel_cancer_fin/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/pollution_turns_chinese_river_re/ Water supplies to about 200,000 people in central China have been contaminated by pollution, which has turned branches of a major river system red. At least three tributaries of the Han river - a branch of the Yangtze - have been affected. State media news science 2008-02-27 08:22:37 http://www.newsique.com/science/pollution_turns_chinese_river_re/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/asia-pacific/7266364.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/pollution_turns_chinese_river_re/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/detailed_gene_map_within_grasp/ One thousand people are to have their genomes mapped in a major effort to understand how genes influence disease. To date, only a handful of humans have had their genes analysed in this way, including scientists Craig Venter and James Watson, and anony news science 2008-01-22 08:13:59 http://www.newsique.com/science/detailed_gene_map_within_grasp/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/science/nature/7201994.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/detailed_gene_map_within_grasp/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/pacemaker_to_stop_faints_fitted/ A London hospital has become the first in the world to implant a new generation of pacemaker to stop people regularly fainting. A 65-year-old man from west London was fitted with the device under local anaesthetic at St Mary's Hospital. The Biotroni news science 2008-01-08 08:18:36 http://www.newsique.com/science/pacemaker_to_stop_faints_fitted/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/health/7176675.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/pacemaker_to_stop_faints_fitted/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/gates_hails_age_of_digital_sense/ The way people interact with computers is going to dramatically change in the next five years, Microsoft chief Bill Gates has told BBC News. He predicted that the keyboard and mouse would gradually give way to more intuitive and natural technologies. news science 2008-01-07 08:23:33 http://www.newsique.com/science/gates_hails_age_of_digital_sense/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/technology/7174333.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/gates_hails_age_of_digital_sense/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/cjd_death_is_no_cause_for_panic/ A mysterious case of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) has raised fears more people than thought could be at risk. New Scientist magazine reports the genetic make-up of a 40-year-old woman who may have died from variant CJD was different from all previou news science 2008-01-04 08:52:55 http://www.newsique.com/science/cjd_death_is_no_cause_for_panic/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/health/7167866.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/cjd_death_is_no_cause_for_panic/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/universal_flu_jab_works_in_peopl/ A single jab that could give lifelong protection against all types of flu has produced promising results in human trials. The vaccine, made by Acambis, should protect against all strains of influenza A - the cause of pandemics. Currently, winter flu news science 2008-01-04 08:52:54 http://www.newsique.com/science/universal_flu_jab_works_in_peopl/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/health/7171118.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/universal_flu_jab_works_in_peopl/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/india_tiger_skin_traders_held/ Police in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state say they have arrested 16 people in connection with hunting tigers and smuggling skin and bones. The police said they have recovered tiger skin, bones and hair from the arrested people in Allahabad city. news science 2007-12-05 10:01:18 http://www.newsique.com/science/india_tiger_skin_traders_held/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/south_asia/7128209.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/india_tiger_skin_traders_held/#comments