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professor of business administration at the University of Illinois

moderate level of noise not only enhances creative problem-solving but also leads to a greater adoption of innovative products in certain settings

explores how a moderate-level of ambient noise (about 70 decibels, equivalent to a passenger car traveling on a highway) enhances performance on creative tasks and increases the likelihood of consumers purchasing innovative products.

To learn new motor skills, the brain must be plastic: able to rapidly change the strengths of connections between neurons, forming new patterns that accomplish a particular task

if the brain were too plastic, previously learned skills would be lost too easily.

A new computational model developed by MIT neuroscientists explains how the brain maintains the balance between plasticity and stability

A team of scientists

has identified a new way to make latent HIV reveal itself

could help overcome one of the biggest obstacles to finding a cure for HIV infection

Certain areas in the brains of children with autism overreact to sensory stimuli, such as the touch of a scratchy sweater and loud traffic noises

a new small study shows

The finding helps to explain why autistic kids are five times more likely than other children to be overwhelmed by everyday sensations

Developed by researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, the camera creates a heatmap-like view of machinery (or anything else

30 digital microphones and a high-res camera pick up on what's making noise, and an image shows the different levels of noise, organized by a color gradient

Blue means a little noise, while red is the most extreme level.

Sensorineural hearing loss is the most common form and is caused by the loss of sensory hair cells in the cochlea.

Hair cell loss results from a variety of factors including noise exposure, aging, toxins, infections, and certain antibiotics and anti-cancer drugs

there are no known treatments to restore hearing

In the case of patients with severe hearing impairments, however, conventional behind-the-ear hearing aids reach the limits of their usefulness

These patients' hearing can only be helped by an implant, which amplifies sounds more effectively than conventional systems and boasts better sound quality

these middle ear implants require complex operations that last several hours. The high risk and expense of the surgery mean that it is rarely performed

An international team of astronomers has discovered that Tau Ceti, one of the closest and most Sun-like stars, may host five planets, including one in the star's habitable zone

twelve light years from Earth and visible to the naked eye in the evening sky, Tau Ceti is the closest single star that has the same spectral classification as our Sun

five planets are estimated to have masses between two and six times the mass of the Earth,

Ultracold crystals designed to catch particles of dark matter deep underground have come up with three potential detections

The researchers do not have enough evidence to say they have discovered dark matter particles

Theoretical physicists have put forth some ideas for particles that might constitute dark matter, including one called a weakly interacting massive particle, or WIMP.

Kepler mission, which has discovered more than 2,300 potential alien planets to date,

slated to run out this November

launched in March 2009 on

Rats spent hours in a state of chilly suspended animation after researchers injected a compound into the animals in a cold room

animals’ heart rates slowed, brain activity became sluggish and body temperature plummeted.

Lowering the body temperature of a nonhibernating mammal is really hard

Dec. 12, 2013

suspect a flow control valve actually inside the pump module itself might not be functioning correctly

hat flow control valve regulates the temperature of the ammonia in the loop so that when the ammonia is re-introduced into the heat exchanger on the Harmony node it does not freeze the water also flowing through the exchange

The first Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of another star has been confirmed by observations with both the W. M. Keck Observatory and the Gemini Observatory

The initial discovery, made by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, is one of a handful of smaller planets found by Kepler and verified using large ground-based telescopes

his Earth-sized planet, one of five orbiting this star, which is cooler than the Sun, resides in a temperate region where water could exist in liquid form

Armstrong demonstration of FM radio to FCC

In 1936, Edwin H. Armstrong demonstrated his invention of FM radio in Washington D.C. to a fact-finding investigation conducted by the Federal Communications Commission into the future of radio and television. His revolutionary method modulated the frequency of a broadcast radio wave to carry the audio signal (FM), instead of the existing use of amplitude modulation (AM). Armstrong's new system utilized a higher frequency band than was used by existing commercial radio transmitters. It eliminated all static and outside interference. Several hundred representatives of the radio industry were present. Armstrong presented the differences between the old and new methods with a series of sound-film recordings of the same program under the different conditions. FM was clear of the hissing, buzzing and crackling static noises of AM