Legal proceedings against Kim Dotcom aren't going so well for the US authorities. First a New Zealand court ruled that the Megaupload seizures were illegal, and now Dotcom's extradition hearing has been pushed back to March 2013. More »
If you're concerned about losing your hearing because of noise exposure (earbud deafness syndrome), a new discovery published online in the FASEB Journal offers some hope. That's because scientists from Germany and Canada show that the protein, AMPK, which protects cells during a lack of energy...
Shortly after Chelsea beat Bayern Munich in a penalty shootout to win the Champions League final, Fernando Torres reportedly claimed that he volunteered to take one of the all-important shots, saying, "I wanted to take a penalty but they didn't let me." And now video showing the moment Roberto...
Given that vision and hearing are vital in day-to-day living, an individual generally notices any impairment of these senses right away. Regardless of the fact that various known genetic mutations can result in hereditary vision and hearing defects, little knowledge exists about the sense of...
Cone beam CT is superior to mutidetector CT for detecting superior semicircular canal dehiscence or the so called third window (a small hole in the bony wall of the inner ear bone that can cause dizziness and hearing loss) and it uses half the radiation dose, a new study shows. The study...
It's almost like the guy had had nooklar meltdown right there.
Hat tip: Barbara Forrest, author of Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design
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I am acid to the ears and heart,
written on the crummy walls in the dark,
Clouds censor me on tv,
the mouth triggers me,
as it’s conductor angers thee.
What am I?
Nearly a fifth of all Americans 12 years or older have hearing loss so severe that it may make communication difficult, according to a new study led by Johns Hopkins researchers and published in the Nov. 14 Archives of Internal Medicine. The findings, thought to be the first nationally...
the government, What are they? The never mention them in their ad and I can't seem to locate any information.
Thanks Chicken Head.
Since it goes into the Federal Retirement program it looks like Congress trying to support a failing retirement system for Federal employees added to the cost of...
I'm due to be fitted for my first digital hearing aids next week and I'm aware that most mobile phones are not compatible with them, causing feedback. I'd really prefer to keep my current (old and comfortable) phone, rather than getting a new one, therefore I'm trying to find an...
At night when i go to sleep i hear sounds. It sounds like people walking around my house, and people walking into my room, and using my appliances in my kitchen. I know they aren't there after i have checked. But it always scares me. I don't want to see a doctor about it bexcause my parents...
University of Iowa scientists have discovered a new role for a protein that is mutated in Usher syndrome, one of the most common forms of deaf-blindness in humans. The findings, which were published Aug. 8 in Nature Neuroscience, may help explain why this mutation causes the most severe form of...