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11th Jan 2011

Going Topless Harms your Hearing


Kat Arney

Chris Smith
Music and the brain

In this week's NewsFlash, we find out how an IVF study could lead to a test to predict the treatment's outcome, how a woman's tears can manipulate men's moods, the perfect melody to send shivers up your spine and the headphones which can cancel out the sound of the dentist's drill. Plus we find out how leaving the top down on your car could damage your hearing....

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IVF study could lead to prediction test

More than 10 per cent of couples worldwide are infertile, and some of them turn to in vitro fertilisation or IVF, in the hope of having a baby. But it can be a difficult and heartbreaking process for many couples and there's no guarantee of success. But now a new study could lead to a more accurate...

(c) Vassil

Tears manipulate men's moods

Tears are traditionally judged to be a visual display of emotion, and humans, it's claimed, are the only species to shed them. But now scientists in Israel have found that they can also carry chemical messages to alter the moods of others close by, an observation which fits with earlier studies sho...

(c) Erik Christensen

Dental-drill cancelling headphones

For many, just the distant sound of a dental drill is enough to elicit a cold sweat, let alone having to endure it first hand during a filling. But now a new, noise-cancelling device developed by a London-based research team could help to take some of the pain out of the experience....

(c) GeorgHH

Going topless harms hearing

Despite their suave appeal, convertible cars could have to carry a health warning owing to the threat they pose to the occupant's hearing.


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(c) Peter Finnie

Chills of Musical Pleasure

Many of us have a certain piece of music that causes chills to run up our spines - music so good, it elicits a genuine physical reaction. Now, researchers at Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital have been exploring the brain basis of this experience. Kat Arney spoke to Valorie Salimpoor fro...




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