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Good Listening Skill After Cocktail Party, Anyone?

Comments ika — November 30, 2008 / 5:24 pm

There is a common thing after we had a cocktail party; so-called ‘cocktail party effect’. That is how our brains develop the ability to pinpoint and focus on particular sounds among a background of noise. Researchers led by Professor Andrew King, a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, have developed a method [...]

Just Found, New Ebola Species

Comments ika — November 26, 2008 / 6:54 am

A virus has showed near the foothills of western Uganda. It named Bundibugyo. Bundibugyo resembles no other previously discovered strains. Based on an outbreak about a year ago, 35% of people infected with Bundibugyo die, says Jonathan Towner, a microbiologist at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, who was part [...]

Fist Cancers By Eating Fruits & Vegetables

1 comment ika — November 10, 2008 / 1:20 am

Everybody in this world, i’m sure, would agree that fruits and vegetables are indeed good to consume. Yes, and they turn out can help the damage cells stop growing. How, oh how? Hohoho. Guys, i’ll explain this in a very-dummy-way. Let’s go! Cells in our body are growing everyday. They all grow, not only the health [...]

Perfect Purple

Comments ika — November 3, 2008 / 11:34 am

Do you notice what’s in the pic above? Yes, they are tomatoes. We usually see tomatoes with a red colour on their skins. But nowadays, an European group of researchers have successfully expressed genes from the Snapdragon flower in tomatoes, resulting to deep-purple colored tomatoes. Yes, that’s why i titled this post with Perfect Purple. [...]

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