PERSONALITY TEST

PERSONALITY TEST Choose an icon that speaks to you the most. Don't think about it too hard. Read the answer below... Let us know what you got!  1. You are a generous and moral (not to confuse with moralizing) person. You always work on self-improvement. You are very ambitious and have very high standards. People might think that communicating with you is difficult, but for you, it isn't...

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Scientists detect water around a hot Jupiter

Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) are part of a research team that has detected water vapor in the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system. The team, including scientists from California Institute of Technology, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University, and University of Arizona, applied a sophisticated Doppler technique to the infrared to...

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Computers see through faked expressions of pain better than people

A joint study by researchers at the University of California San Diego and the University of Toronto has found that a computer system spots real or faked expressions of pain more accurately than people can.The work, titled "Automatic Decoding of Deceptive Pain Expressions," is published in the latest issue of Current Biology. "The computer system managed to detect distinctive dynamic features of facial...

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Device may restore speech to people on breathing tubes

Doctors in the Netherlands say they've found a potentially important new use for a simple old device—the "electronic voice box." It may help hospitalized patients who've lost the ability to speak because they need tubes down their throat to help them breathe. The electronic voice box, or "electrolarynx," was first developed in the 1920s. It's a cylinder, about the size of an electric shaver that...

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Scientists Discover Why Dark Chocolate Is So Good For You In Most Delicious Research Project Ever

Chocolate: can't live without it. Now you have a scientific excuse to dive into your daily chocolate fix: researchers have found the reason dark chocolate is so healthy for you.Research presented at the 247th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society reveals that microbes in the gut consume the chocolate and convert it into heart-healthy anti-inflammatory compounds."We found...

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Eyes are windows to the soul—and evolution

Why do we become saucer-eyed from fear and squint from disgust?These near-opposite facial expressions are rooted in emotional responses that exploit how our eyes gather and focus light to detect an unknown threat, according to a study by a Cornell University neuroscientist. Our eyes widen in fear, boosting sensitivity and expanding our field of vision to locate surrounding danger. When repulsed,...

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