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Woman's Trip to Tourist Attraction Clues Her In to Breast Cancer

Thermal
Camera at
Tourist
Attraction
Spots
Cancer

Oct 24, 2019 10:55 AM CDT

Thermal Camera at Tourist Attraction Spots Cancer

Woman noticed a heat spot over one breast

(Newser) - A woman's visit to a tourist attraction in Scotland ended up being an important stroke of luck for her health. Bal Gill, 41, used the thermal imaging camera at Edinburgh's Camera Obscura & World of Illusions back in May, and when looking back through the images from it...

Scientists Find New Way to Look Inside Pyramids

Scientists to
Get Inside
4 Pyramids
Without Digging

Oct 25, 2015 4:09 PM CDT

Scientists to Get Inside 4 Pyramids Without Digging

They can look inside without damaging the structure

(Newser) - How do you see what's inside an Egyptian pyramid without taking it apart or even "drilling the slightest opening?" With infrared thermography, 3D scans with lasers and drones, and cosmic-ray detectors, scientists said Sunday at a press conference. Forbes translates the latter technology: Scientists will study "how...

How the Nose Really Does Give Away Liars

Why the Nose
Heats Up
When We Lie

study says

Nov 24, 2012 6:05 PM CST

Why the Nose Heats Up When We Lie

Spanish scientists call it 'The Pinocchio Effect'

(Newser) - So Pinocchio wasn't that far-fetched after all: The nose may not grow when we lie, but two Spanish scientists say it does get noticeably warmer. Using thermal imaging cameras on volunteers, Emilio Gómez Milán and Elvira Salazar López found that nose temperature changed depending on their...

New Camera
System Knows
When You're
Lying

New Camera System Knows When You're Lying

Works two-thirds of the time, say British researchers

(Newser) - A new camera system can reportedly read lies right off our faces. Scientists in Britain have combined video, thermal imaging, and algorithms to scan faces for signs of lies, the BBC reports. The system gets it right about two-thirds of the time, say its makers. The researchers worked with Britain’...

Toucan's Beak Really
Outsized Thermostat

Jul 23, 2009 3:45 PM CDT

Toucan's Beak Really Outsized Thermostat

Toucans control blood flow to outsized bill to raise or lower body temperature

(Newser) - New research reveals an unexpected use for the toucan’s outsized bill, Wired reports. Thermal imaging shows that the bird can regulate its body temperature by increasing or restricting blood flow to its beak. “Bird bills are not ‘dead tissues’ incapable of playing a role in heat balance,...