The Rice Haptic Rocker uses a rotating arm to brush a soft rubber pad over the skin of the arm. The more a prosthetic hand closes, the more the pad brushes the skin.
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Engineers working to add...
Study participants in a series of experiments conducted by Cameron Anderson, a professor of management at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, and Aaron Lukaszewski, an assistant professor at Oklahoma State University, overwhelmingly equated physical strength with higher status...
Lack of sleep and obesity have been associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases.
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Lack of sleep and obesity have been associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases in...
An automated face detection method developed at Carnegie Mellon University enables computers to recognize faces in images at a variety of scales, including tiny faces composed of just a handful of pixels.
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Spotting a face in a...
Research by scientists in the US and UK has estimated that up to 1.65 million childbearing women in Central and South America could become infected by the Zika virus by the end of the first wave of the epidemic.
Researchers...
Are we born to root for heroes? Researchers in Japan have evidence suggesting yes.
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We recognize justice before we can talk, reports a research team in Nature Human Behaviour.
The Kyoto-based study demonstrates that human infants recognize heroic acts...
A UC San Diego study links online social interactions to longevity.
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Is social media good for you, or bad? Well, it's complicated. A study of 12 million Facebook users suggests that using Facebook is associated...
While most military children grow into resilient adults, they are not always visible to the outside community, the journal reports.
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Since 9/11, the United States has seen the largest sustained deployment of military service men...
This study has important implications for the introduction of smoke-free policies, not only in psychiatric hospitals but also in other institutions such as prisons.
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New King's College London research reveals a 39 per cent drop...
Around 60-70% of people who have schizophrenia experience auditory hallucinations that are typically insulting and threatening.
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An experimental therapy which involves a face-to-face discussion between a person with schizophrenia and an avatar representing their auditory...
Hormone replacement therapies, or medications containing female hormones, may help cancer to spread.
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Hormone replacement therapies, or medications containing female hormones that substitute those no longer produced by the body, often are prescribed to reduce...
