WHO

Actors smoke less and less in movies, but alcohol is still a widely used resource on the big screen, according to a study carried out by the Norris Cotton Cancer Center in Lebanon in New Hampshire (USA), which has analyzed more of 1,400 films shot between 1996 and 2009.

That we love to cry in the movies is corroborated by box office hits such as "Titanic", "Gone with the Wind", "Someone Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" or the most recent "The Impossible". According to a study directed by Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick, from the University of Ohio, and published in the journal Communication Research, tragic films that cause us sadness in turn enhance a reflection on our own lives and make us evoke the closest relationships and our loved ones, immediately increasing the levels of happiness.

Despite the large volume of feature films dealing with the subject, the truth is that most offer an unreal image of the cancer disease, and very few show the real possibilities of cure, according to a study carried out by researchers at the University of Rome. "La Sapienza".

Google today dedicates its Doodle to the English photographer Edward James Muggeridge (1830-1904), who dedicated himself to recording the movement. Specifically, he was trying to prove that at one point in the horse's trot all four legs were in the air at the same time. In 1877, he finally managed to obtain a set of plates made at a shutter speed of around one thousandth of a second, resorting to a clockwork system and mechanisms that shuttered several cameras as the horses passed.

Apple has released the iTunes Rewind 2011, with the best and most sold in 2011 in music, movies and apps, according to data collected in the Spanish iTunes Store. The VERY Interesting magazine app for iPad is in one of the "top ten".

Acute stress situations such as those that occur when watching a horror movie force the brain to reorganize itself and remind people of bad times, according to a new study by scientists from New York University (USA) and published in the journal Science .

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and computer models, researchers at the University of California at Berkeley (United States) have decoded and reconstructed the visual experience of our brain while we watch "trailers" of Hollywood movies. The study has been published in the journal 'Current Biology'.

A new study carried out at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (USA) reveals that watching a comedy and laughing out loud has a very positive effect on vascular function and opposite to that observed after watching movies that cause "mental stress."