Science news articles about 'self defense'

... has an impressive suite of sensory receptors to detect outside signals. And don't overlook this animal's self-defense abilities: it has much more ammunition to activate its innate ...

Spicy chemical produced by chilies to keep insects, seed-killing fungi away.

A former Ground Self-Defense Force member who was arrested and indicted over launching explosive devices into the grounds of the Imperial Palace, has told the police that he learned how to make bombs ...

... Fifty gyms teach how to use walking sticks for fitness and self-defense. Canes come in handy, especially when ...

... men around to watch the situation, suggesting that much of aggression is about display, rather than self-defense. Statistics reinforce this idea; police reports show that "trivial altercations" is ...

... ," Houseman said. "If the spider feels trapped against a person's skin, it will bite in self-defense." If bitten, there are some important actions to take immediately: Wash the site of the spider ...

... infants in Japan between 1973 and the beginning of 1976. The adults in this study, who are in the Japan Self-Defense Forces, received the LC16m8 vaccine between 2002 and 2005. Vaccinees were examined ...

... is that those are people we need to protect ourselves from, one of the ways in which we might do that is self defensive violence. We might strike first and that would lead to the victimization of ...

... to know very little about the impact of gun possession on homicide or the utility of guns for self-defense. Past studies had explored the relationship between homicides and having a gun in the home, ...

... components as temperatures rise, a quality Cao likened to a gecko shedding its tail in self-defense. "The natural instability of particles at this scale is an obstacle for many applications, from ...