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(03/30/06 5:00am)
A swinging pocket watch, a monotone chant, a gullible audience member. These are tools of the age-old trade of hypnosis. Now though, hypnosis is moving from the performance stage to the doctor's office as it gains credence as a medical tool among scientists and physicians. Studies show that hypnosis causes a distinct mental state and this can be used to ease pain, among other things.
(11/17/05 5:00am)
On any given Tuesday night, detectives Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson light up the television screens of more than 10 million American households as they catch serial rapists, find abandoned children and rescue women from the hands of con-artists.
(11/10/05 5:00am)
Taking a survey no longer means half-heartedly filling out a form full of yes/no questions. Marketers and scientists have pooled their knowledge to create "neuromarketing," which aims to read consumers' minds to find out what they really think about everything from politics to cars and movies.
(10/20/05 5:00am)
Students taking the Medical College Admissions Test (or MCAT) will soon have one less thing to worry about on test day: number two pencils. Beginning in 2007, the MCAT will only be offered as a computer-based test. The change in the test's format, among others, has students worried.
(10/13/05 5:00am)
In 1999, Queen Elizabeth II knighted Dr. Paul Nurse, a British biochemist, for his contributions to cancer research in Great Britain. Two years later, Sir Paul Nurse won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with two of his colleagues.
(09/15/05 5:00am)
Brightly colored fruits and dark leafy vegetables have always been heralded as carriers of healthy antioxidant vitamins. However, new research shows that people are getting antioxidants from a much different source.
(05/05/05 5:00am)
In the past decade, the chunky portable CD player of the '90s has become nearly extinct, replaced by sleek and lightweight digital music players. This has changed the way consumers buy and listen to music, but the revolution is far from over.
(04/20/05 5:00am)
Summer is coming, but you've still got the winter blues - or least the accompanying stuffy nose. For millions of Americans, spring does not mean warm weather and pretty flowers but a miserable allergy season.
(03/30/05 5:00am)
A new study at Johns Hopkins aims to test the safety of injecting adult stem cells after a heart attack. This is believed to be the first clinical trial in the United States in which adult mesenchymal stem cells are being used to repair muscle damaged by heart attack. Lead study investigator Joshua Hare, M.D., a professor of medicine at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine's Heart Institute, states that the treatment approach is aimed at repairing damage that can leave dead portions of heart tissue.
(03/23/05 5:00am)
Stealing a car has just gotten easier, thanks to a team of Johns Hopkins computer scientists.
(03/23/05 5:00am)
In the weeks since Harvard President Lawrence Summers made a number of controversial comments about women in science, the American public has been pressed to find an explanation for exactly why women remain underrepresented science careers.
(03/03/05 5:00am)
Apple has sold over 10 million iPods in the past four years, with new features and versions of the trendy digital music player being introduced constantly. Its short battery life, however, remains one of the most controversial aspects of the iPod, and has not seen any recent improvements.
(02/23/05 5:00am)
Last week, the American Geophysical Union awarded Johns Hopkins associate professor A. Hope Jahren with the James B. Macelwane Medal. Established in 1961, the Macelwane medal is given annually to scientists younger than 36 for their accomplishments in geophysics.
(02/17/05 5:00am)
The aging Hubble Space Telescope faces an uncertain future and scientists and politicians are now grappling with what to do about it.
(02/03/05 5:00am)
At universities across the country, online gambling is on the rise, and along with it comes a more convenient way to gamble, and an easier way for college students to get addicted.
(12/02/04 5:00am)
A peanut butter and jelly sandwich or a glass of milk doesn't sound particularly threatening as a snack, but for people with food allergies, they can be deadly.
(11/11/04 5:00am)
Some news for the one hundred thousand people who got facelifts last year to make their faces look younger; there is a cheaper option and it's not Botox.
(10/28/04 5:00am)
For the 38 million people living with AIDS and HIV, their disease alone causes a daily struggle, not to mention the many complications that arise. Recent research has suggested that one of these complications, diabetes, results not from HIV itself, but from the drugs used for treatment.
(10/21/04 5:00am)
Our undergraduate faculty boasts two Nobel Prize winners, a Pulitzer Prize Winner, five MacArthur Fellows, three National Medal of Science Winners, and 14 National Academy of Science members, and these are only the awards that most people would have heard of.
(10/07/04 5:00am)
A patent for the world's perfect "combover" is not something that you'd expect to win a Nobel prize.