Stereo glasses, commonly used in video games, can be used for complex heart surgery on infants and adults when the heart is still beating. This type of imaging allows doctors to see depth while performing the surgery.
(read the full story at ScienceDaily.com)
In a recent study, adolescents who began school one hour later performed better on cognitive tests than those who started earlier, suggesting that getting more sleep allows adolescents to have better cognitive performance.
(read the full story at ScienceDaily.com)
Scientist Meng Lean has invented a spiral water filtration system which funnels water through lightweight disks, separating dirt and particles from clean water. The invention makes water recycling cheaper and faster and can be used for agricultural purposes.
(read the full story at Environmental News Network.com)
Every year scientists at Arizona State University lead an international team in naming the top 10 newly discovered species: the most weird, reclusive and lethal of more than 10,000 new to science each year.
The International Institute for Species Exploration along with a committee of taxonomists – scientists responsible for species exploration and classification – added their votes to come up with the top 10 new species found in 2007. On the list are an ornate sleeper ray, with a name that sucks: Electrolux; a 75-million-year-old giant duck-billed dinosaur; a shocking pink millipede; a rare, off-the-shelf frog; one of the most venomous snakes in the world; a fruit bat; a mushroom; a jellyfish named after its victim; a life-imitates-art “Dim” rhinoceros beetle; and the “Michelin Man™” plant.
A recent study has shown that tennis players are at least slightly faster and more accurate at speed-processing than non-players. The researchers believe this could have implications for training future tennis players by having them focus on tasks such as speed discrimination to improve tennis performance.
(read the full story at ScienceDaily.com)
The U.S. life expectancy is currently at an all-time high: babies born in 2006 have a life expectancy of 78.1 years. In addition, the death rate for cancer, heart disease, stroke, and several other deadly diseases decreased in 2006.
(read the full story at WebMD.com)
President Bush says he will lift key trade sanctions against North Korea and remove it from the U.S. terrorism blacklist, a remarkable turnaround in policy toward the communist regime he once branded as part of an ‘axis of evil.’
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The World Bank has announced that it will talk with stakeholders in tiger range countries to determine the best methods of tiger conservation. The World Bank’s goal is to save wild tigers by reversing their decline and ensuring that the organizations’s practices do as little harm to tigers as possible in the future.
(Read more at Environmental News Network.com).
The One Laptop Per Child Program has loaded its computers with educational music programs. A Berklee College Professor of Music Synthesis demonstrates how children — many in economically depressed communities around the world — will be able to use their green computer to explore freely what it means to process, change and edit the sounds of musical instruments into their favorite designs.
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El Puente – The Bridge – helps people to help themselves in Southern Costa Rica. A longtime reader of the Good News Network, Barry Stevens, the founder of the bridge, needs a lift this month to meet the expenses of his School Program, Food Program and Microloan Program. If you can help, visit the donation page.
These are some of the ways in which they help:
British company Xeros Ltd. has created a washing machine that uses only a cup of water per washing cycle — less than two percent of the amount required in an average washing machine. The machine could go on sale in England as early as next year.
(read the full story at Environmental News Network. com)
A recent study has shown that simply smelling coffee (rather than drinking it) may awaken the brain and relieve stress without the negative impact that drinking coffee has on sleep.
(read the full story at WebMD.com)
“A new finding that shows increased acid (pH) shuts down seizure activity will provide insight into how seizures normally stop, and might help us learn more about how to terminate those seizures that don’t stop.” (Health Day has the full report )
100 homeless men, women and children, were part of an art workshop presented by the Hearts of Fire Project, a group founded three years ago to change public perceptions of the homeless. In a donated recreational vehicle, the Hearts of Fire Project launched from California two years ago to tour homeless shelters throughout the United States bringing art and music into the lives of the homeless. (full story at Ventura County Star) Visit the Hearts of Fire website here.
Recent research has shown that Vitamin D may be useful in slowing the progression of heart failure (including the congestive type) by preventing a condition in which the heart muscle cells become too enlarged. Researchers are currently trying to create a Vitamin-D based drug that would treat heart failure.
(Read the full story at ScienceDaily.com) – Featured photo by imelenchon, CC license
A NIH study has identified the healthiest method of obstetric care, the one that leads to lower neonatal intensive care unit admission rates, higher uncomplicated vaginal birth rates and ensures that each pregnant woman enters labor at a gestational age that maximizes her chance for vaginal delivery. (Science Daily has a summary)
Mexico City, one of the world’s most polluted capitals, is planting rooftop gardens on public buildings as part of a program launched in June to combat global warming. (Reuters has the green story)
California officials on Thursday abruptly canceled a state program to spray chemicals to combat crop-eating moth in urban areas after months of public uproar over its unclear effects on the environment and human health. (Organic Consumers report)
“Cuba’s urban farming program has been a stunning, and surprising, success. The farms, many of them on tiny plots now supply much of Cuba’s produce while also providing 350,000 jobs nationwide with relatively high pay and have transformed eating habits in a nation accustomed to a less-than-ideal diet of rice and beans.” (Read the full story from Associated Press)
