Playing video games may help sharpen your vision

Watching TV and playing video games for too long is considered bad for your vision. But according to a team of researchers, spending time playing video games might actually sharpen your vision. Contrast is that property of human vision that allows an individual to distinguish...

Study: Websurfing Boosts Brainpower!

You're not surfing for gossip, porno or politics; you're engaged in a rigorous program of self-improvement!"Internet beats books for improving the mind, say scientistsBrowsing the internet is better than reading books for boosting the brain power of middle-aged and older...

3D Virtual Reality Environment Developed at UC San Diego Helps Scientists Inn...

Coming soon to your living room; full immersion "virtual reality" extreme sports, action, romance, horror, scifi and shopping"The StarCAVE is a five-sided virtual reality (VR) room where scientific models and animations are projected in stereo on 360-degree screens...

ScienceDaily.com: Worms Do Calculus To Find Meals Or Avoid Unpleasantness

Thanks to salt and hot chili peppers, researchers have found a calculus-computing center that tells a roundworm to go forward toward dinner or turn to broaden the search. It's a computational mechanism, they say, that is similar to what drives hungry college students to a...

Bad posture could raise your blood pressure

"THAT office job might be raising your blood pressure in more ways than one. A link between the muscles in the neck, blood pressure and heart rate has long been suspected. Now Jim Deuchars and colleagues at the University of Leeds, UK, have found a direct neural connection...

Dirt exposure 'boosts happiness'

"Exposure to dirt may be a way to lift mood as well as boost the immune system, UK scientists say. Lung cancer patients treated with "friendly" bacteria normally found in the soil have anecdotally reported improvements in their quality of life. Mice exposed to the same...