Medical school is a bear. Med students have to endure long hours, little sleep, and tons of pressure.And, getting stuck by needles.According to one study, med students on track to become surgeons get stuck often. Of the nearly 700 med school graduate...
The second type of vaccine contains an attenuated virus. This virus is alive, but has been grown in the lab for several generations, so it isnt able to multiply very well in humans. With the attenuated virus multiplying very slowly, your body is able...
During the fraction of a second that a saccade takes, images sweep over our retinas at high speed. Yet we dont get a feeling of motion, because our brain suppresses visual perception during saccades. Otherwise, the world might look to us like a bad h...
Helen: Hello everyone. Welcome to Ask About Britain. I'm Helen. The question is: how many days of paid annual leave do people in the UK get? In the UK, the law says that you're entitled to 28 days of annual leave. The 28 days includes eight UK public...
The difference between these two mistakes may seem unimportant to a lay person, but to a cognitive psychologist it is crucial for understanding how language development occurs.In order for us to construct meaningful language, we must learn how to sup...
Going through the alphabet one letter at a time might help you remember it.When you come to the initial letter of the word, your memory might be jogged enough to help you complete the two-step process and remember the sound of the word youre looking...
Multitasking Follies In todays plugged in, online, information-saturated world, its good to be a skilled multi-tasker, right? Unless youre able to tweet, chat, and update your Facebook status all at the same time, youre sure to fall behind the curve....
Usually a green, sour fruit is just a fruit thats not ripe yet. If you left a lime on the tree longer would it eventually change color and become sweet, like an orange? Actually, limes do become much more yellow and less sour as they ripen. Under rip...
Anyone who took piano or violin lessons as a kid knows that learning an instrument can be difficult. All those scales and complicated fingering positions can seem like drudgery. But there are good reasons for sticking with music lessons. According to...
Three of these nucleotides are also thought to be associated with sleep and sedation. A team of Spanish researchers collected breast milk over a twenty-four hour period from thirty healthy moms who had been breast-feeding for at least three months. T...
Cognitive psychologists believe that our language construction is a result of a two-step word retrieval process. The first step is the search for a words meaning, and the second step is the search for the actual sound of a word. Different speech erro...
And the mice that drank regular water? They lost more and more of their memory and thinking skills. So does this mean that drinking lots of coffee or tea or even soft drinks will prevent you from getting Alzheimers? Could reversing memory loss caused...
If you drop the ball, gravity will pull it toward the center of the earth, but will not diminish that extra eastward speed. So as the ball falls itll outrun the ground and land slightly east of the straight-down point. Edwin H. Hall, a Harvard Univer...
And the direction the crystals are pointing makes a difference to the speed seismic waves travel through the rock: a wave traveling parallel to the crystalsin other words, along the length of the toothpickmoves faster than a wave traveling in the oth...
The ground may feel solid, but far beneath our feet, extremely hot rock at extremely high pressure is flowing like slow, underground rivers. No one has ever seen that far into the earth, but we see the results of that movement in every earthquake and...
