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Recently NASAs Luna reconnaissance orbiter photographed images of some of the Apollo missions. 40 years on the controversy still continues whether or not the Apollo missions actually went to the moon.
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U.S. researchers say magnetic resonance imaging scans in mice show teen brains do differ from adult brains.
Senior author Alexei Morozov of the National Institute of Mental Health said it may be of no surprise to human parents...
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ScienceDaily (Nov. 17, 2009) Brain imaging can offer a window into risk for diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD). A study conducted at the University of Kansas School of Medicine demonstrated that genetic risk is expressed in the...
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By JORDAN ROBERTSON (AP)
SAN FRANCISCO Scientists say they've made a breakthrough in their pursuit of computers that "think" like a living thing's brain an effort that tests the limits of technology.
Even the world's most...
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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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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.
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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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Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a microscope that is able to visualize cells in three dimensions, an advance they hope will lead to earlier detection of cancer.
Ben Gruber reports.
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From: CNN By Brandon Keim
Having modeled how images are represented in the brain, the researchers translated recorded patterns of neural activity into pictures of what test subjects had seen.
To construct their model, the...
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Sonet (Synchronous Optical Network) is a high-speed, physical layer network designed to carry large volumes of traffic over relatively long distances on fiber optic cabling using lasers or light-emitting diodes (LEDs). It provides a standard...
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A Connection Between Sleep and Alzheimer's?
From: Science NOW
By Greg Miller
ScienceNOW Daily News
24 September 2009
You shouldn't stay up all night worrying about it, but a new study has found a connection between a lack of...
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If you have ever watched a documentary on pandas you may have noticed they are peculiar beasts. They subsist on a type of food which is not very nutritious so they have to eat a lot of it. If their food supply becomes threatened or endangered,...
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Principal Investigators
Raymond D. Covarrubias, Mark Geisler, PhD.
AffiliationDepartment
San Francisco State University, Cognitive Research Psychology
Bios
Raymond is an undergraduate honors student in Psychology at San...
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Australia experienced a major dust storm this particular storm spanned several states. The gigantic dust cloud covering a vast proportion of Australia's eastern states. It is probably the largest dust storm in Australia seen in the last 70...
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Space Junk is the objects in orbit around Earth created by humans, and that no longer serve any useful purpose. They consist of everything from entire spent rocket stages and defunct satellites to explosion fragments, paint flakes, dust, and slag...
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The brain stem (aka the hindbrain ) connects the spinal cord to the brain.
It consists of three parts the midbrain, the pons and the medulla oblongata, often conveniently abbreviated to the medulla.
It provides the main motor and sensory...
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Lumositys reference pages and neuroscience glossary, which we hope will clarify any terms or processes that may be pertinent but unfamiliar as you embark on a brain training regimen and begin to learn more about how the mind works....
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As we get older, our brains get smaller, or at least that's what many scientists believe. But a new study contradicts this assumption, concluding that when older brains are "healthy" there is little brain deterioration, and that only when...
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