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...Salt Lake City. Participants were observed "driving" in medium- and high-density traffic, and were told to obey the 65 mph speed limit and use turn signals; some were allowed to talk on their hands-free phones. The study was designed so that traffic would periodically slow in one lane, while another lane opened up. Researchers found that cell-phone users switched to faster-moving lanes about 20% less frequently than other drivers. They were less adept at keeping up with traffic flow, and it took them 2% to 3% longer to complete the commute than drivers who weren...
...research shows that we have limited cognitive resources to multitask," says Arthur Kramer, director of the Biomedical Imaging Center at the University of Illinois. When demand for our "neural resources" exceeds supply, the result is decreased performance - scanning less attentively for pedestrians, for example, or failing to maintain a lane or speed...
PLAYING CATCH-UP Orbiting 200 miles above Earth at 17,500 m.p.h., the space station passes over Cape Canaveral, Fla., for just 5 min. each day. For the shuttle to catch up without wasting too much fuel, the timing has to be dead-on. STAYING IN LANE It takes 2˝ days to intercept the station. The shuttle is launched into a slightly lowerorbit. Like a runner on an inside track, it catches up to the station, fires its thrusters and edges up to the station's orbit for docking...
...They are kept there for the duration of their life,” says Ellyn M. Lane, member of the University’s Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC). The only place where the monkeys can be transported is the New England Primate Research Center, which provided the original colony...
...home-and-away set against No. 10 Connecticut and Providence is far less daunting than what’s in store for UNH.The Wildcats travel to Erie, Penn. this weekend to play a pair of games against No. 6 Mercyhurst. More than just a trip down memory lane to your fourth grade social studies class (do any of the terms Iroquois, Great Lakes, or Industrial Revolution ring a bell?), Erie is a lion’s den for visiting women’s hockey teams. The Lakers are 23-1-2 at home since the beginning of last season, which...