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Researchers from the University of California, San Diego, have released something theyre calling the Whole Brain Catalog. At its core, the catalog is meant to serve as a repository for data gathered about the...
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CHICAGO, Oct 27 (Reuters) - People who have both Alzheimer's disease and diabetes have slower rates of memory loss than people who just have Alzheimer's, French researchers said on Tuesday.
They studied 600 Alzheimer's patients for...
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Jupiter has had another massive hi,t almost to the day. In July 20 2009 A massive comet or large asteroid left a massive bruise on Jupiter surface.
Some 15 years ago you may recall the demise of comet Shoemaker- Levy 9 made a series of impact...
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I have to keep repeating myself and telling my stance on global warming. I believe that it is a natural phenomenon and man has very little, if anything, to do with it.
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Evolution has produced some exquisite examples of biological machinery, from bat echolocation to the human brain. But are there things that cannot ever evolve? And why?
To answer this question, we first need to understand a couple of things. The...
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(HealthNewsDigest.com) - PITTSBURGH, While aging and Alzheimers disease for the most part shrink different areas of the brain, both cause volume reductions in one critical region: the hippocampus the brains key memory and learning...
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My research into the genitalia of seed beetles is coming along nicely. As I've mentioned before, I'm doing a Masters at the University of New South Wales, and my focus is on the evolution of genital components in insects.
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At some point God must have looked at babboons and decided to conceal our sphincters further into our buttocks.
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With apologies to my fellow Orblers who cite a speclalised environmental blog - I felt compelled to at least throw a chip to seagulls as it were about climate change and a piece I read this week about the con job being done on the masses.
Squeal...
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By Charlene Laino
BALTIMORE, Md -- October 18, 2009 -- Patients diagnosed with Parkinson's disease dementia demonstrated better executive function when treated with rivastigmine than when administered placebo, according to a study...
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Introducing, my subject matter in the form of a photograph, with a snappy caption.
From a personal perspective, based on experiences a, b and c of x, y and z, my subject matter makes me feel p, q and r, and so should you. You should feel p, q...
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Recent updated data, from NASA scientists have recalculated the path of a large asteroid named Apophis.
Apophis was discovered in 2004 and posed a real threat that it could collide with Earth around 2036.
However The refined path indicates...
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The human brain has to do quite a lot just to utter a single word. In the case of verbs, it must select the word that best expresses the idea it wants to convey (for instance, to walk); decide on the proper tense (walks, walked, walking,...
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Earlier this week I came across something about a kind of magnecity a form of magnetic poles that flow like electricity. The folks who spend their days staring at Maxwell's equations for electromagnetism said we might see these things sooner or...
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(HealthNewsDigest.com) - New Haven, Conn. - Leveraging more than $25 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Yale School of Medicine has created a new research center to study how our brain evolved uniquely human...
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Not so according to NASA
-Reuters Photo.
The recent NASA moon probe has proved less than spectacular as far as providing a visual show.
The probe was designed to gather specific information regarding the possible existence of frozen...
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Complex tasks like juggling produce significant changes to the structure of the brain, according to scientists at Oxford University.
In the journal, Nature Neuroscience, the scientists say they saw a 5% increase in white matter - the...
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That's not my opinion. BBC News is saying it.
There have been great hoaxes in the past and most of us, with the benefit of 2020 hindsight say to ourselves: How could those people believe something that silly?
When it comes to Global...
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Researchers have discovered that in the vast neural network of the brain, some cells are, to use a technical term, celebrity groupies.
Probing deep into human brains, a team of scientists discovered a neuron roused only by Ronald...
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The recent stunning unveiling of research on the hominid Ardipithecus ramidus sheds new light on the history of the lineage from which humanity arose. The specimen, which is sure to rob Australopithecus afarensis ("Lucy") of some of its glory now...
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