HEALTH ISSUE: SHORT CUTS

SHORT CUTS

Nicotine increases memory function:

 It is already known that nicotine enhances our ability to think, perform and take tests. Now, according to scientists, it increases our memory function, too. Up to now, results about nicotine's effects on boosting human performance were mixed. Stephen Heishman, a scientist with the National Institute on Drug Abuse in the US, and colleaguses studied previous literature on nicotine and found that the drug not only boosts attention, but also memory.

'Friendly people are more attractive'

   Friendly or outgoing people are more attractive, a new study suggests. Gettysburg College psychology professor Brian Meier and colleagues found that people who were high in the personality traits of agreeableness or extra version were rated as being more attractive even by those people who had never met or interacted with them. 

Robots may attack humans

accidentally, say scientists:

  Robots, which are believed to be doing all domestic tasks in near future, could accidentally inflict deadly wounds on humans, scientist  have warned. Envisaging a future in which robots will start to become domestic helpers, researchers found, the robots manged to accidentally inflict wounds that would prove "lethal" the BBC reported.