Posts Tagged ‘experiment’

Cell phones make people act like zombies

Friday, October 23, 2009 8:48 By NARUTO

We all have moments of distraction and we sometimes don’t see something that is well ahead. Researchers at the University of Washington, USA, did a test to determine exactly how much of human perception is impaired when talking on a cell phone.
They did an experiment documenting examples of real people who were so distracted while [...]

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Is Smell Related with being Empathic?

Wednesday, September 9, 2009 21:59 By Robert

Are you an empathic person? If so, you probably have a flair for sensing people’s feelings, reading their facial emotions and perhaps recognizing their smell as well rather easily. A recent collaborative study conducted by Wen Zhou and Denise Chen shows the evidence of the behavioral connection between a sensory system and emotional possessing.
They conducted [...]

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How Useful Would Nocera’s Artificial Photosynthesis Be?

Thursday, November 27, 2008 11:49 By Ramya

Photosynthesis, the process which energizes plants by breakdown of water using sunlight got artificial. Nocera and his colleagues conducted an experiment in which solar panels were used to power an electrolyzer with cobalt and phosphate catalysts to break down water into its elemental constituents, hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen thus produced was fed into a [...]

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