Nervous Stomach – rerun #2593
Why does your stomach get upset when you're nervous? (tension in stomach muscle, just like you can get a tension headache-- a muscle spasm)
Fish, Bugs and Robots
Sweating mannequin, microchips in salmon, and caterpillar bug repellent
Wound-Healing Bandage
A bandage helps promote healing without scarring.
Emotion Perception
Children who have been abused have difficulty interpreting facial expressions.
Spiny Spiders
Spiny spiders use their yellow stripes to lure prey into their webs.
Computer Accompanist
A computer system provides accompaniment to musicians in real time.
Anthrax Antibodies
Protein antibodies against the anthrax toxin may prevent illness from infection
Cell Phone Driving
Driving while talking on a cell phone may narrow your field of vision -- you have less eye movement
Headache Prevention
Injected into specific muscles, Botox prevents migraines and chronic headaches
Ant Civil War
An endangered secretes chemicals that may be turned into a pesticide.
Blood Cell Delivery
A new technique to use red blood cells to deliver medications
Melanoma Resistance
The mechanism that allows skin cells to survive UV exposure to make melanin may make those same skin cells harder to treat should they turn cancerous.
Seismic Spy Web
Using seismometers to characterize terrorist and other manmade explosions
Bone Healing
Cox-2 inhibiting NSAIDS can slow down or stop bone healing (in rats and mice)
High Priority Genomes
Which genomes are next up for sequencing, and why
Sound Effects
Foley sound effects sound more like the real thing than actual sounds -- Studying why
Ginseng Berries
The ginseng berry has a high concentration of a compound that lessens symptoms of diabetes.
Fire-Eaters
Why don't fire-eaters burn their mouths? (Saliva absorbs heat, use cool-burning fuel)
Predicting Evolution
Predicting antibiotic resistance by forcing bacterial genes to evolve in a test tube
Cracking Whip
A whip crack comes from a loop accelerating down the length of the whip.
Talking Lights
Fluorescent lights can be used to transmit information wirelessly.