MRI, a tool used to make images of all sorts of body parts (and sometimes, video of the motions thereof) has been used to look at beatboxing: “Para-Linguistic Mechanisms of Production in Human ‘Beatboxing’: a Real-time Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study“, Michael I. Proctor, Shrikanth Narayanan [pictured here], and Krishna Nayak, In Interdisciplinary Workshop on Singing […]
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RARE (MRI) experiments scan cereals with milk.
Only a handful (or less) of scientific investigators have ever utilised MRI techniques to track hydration in milky breakfast cereals.But a team of experimenters from Madrid (in collaboration with Nestlé, Switzerland) have done just that. They were working on the basis that : “When they are soaked in milk, they may present lost [sic] of […]
Where babies come from, start to finish: The MRI videos
You can now watch both the thrilling start and the thrilling conclusion of the process that makes babies—each in a separate, quick MRI video. The top video shows a couple’s sexual organs while those organs were in use. The video is a spin-off from project that earned the Ig Nobel prize in medicine, in the year […]
Kids’ brain response to ice cream and a milkshake
How does part of the brain respond when you stuff kids with ice cream over a long period of time and then offer them an ice-cream-filled milkshake? This is the first study to involve a scientist named Burger who investigates that question in the particular way that this study goes about it (Thanks to investigator Gus […]