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'Brain waves' challenge area-specific view of brain activity

25/03/2013 06:07
by Staff Writers Leuven, Belgium (SPX) Mar 22, 2013   Our understanding of brain activity has traditionally been linked to brain areas - when we speak, the speech area of the brain is active. New research by an international team of psychologists led by David Alexander and Cees van Leeuwen...

Wireless, implanted sensor broadens range of brain research

25/03/2013 06:05
by Staff Writers Washington DC (SPX) Mar 25, 2013 A compact, self-contained sensor recorded and transmitted brain activity data wirelessly for more than a year in early stage animal tests, according to a study funded by the National Institutes of Health. In addition to allowing for more natural...

Researchers looking to create human heart

25/03/2013 06:03
by Staff Writers Madrid (UPI) Mar 23, 2013 Medical researchers in Spain say they are close to being able to grow human hearts for transplants outside the body. Doctors have already grown and transplanted a number of human organs, including windpipes, ears, tear ducts and an artery, The Wall Street...

How the Planck discovery could point toward a new physics

24/03/2013 05:16
By Clara Moskowitz, SPACE.com / March 22, 2013 Europe's Planck spacecraft has revealed the most detailed map yet of the earliest light in the universe, which reveals some tantalizing anomalies that could point toward new physics. The new map tracks small temperature variations in the glow...

What is Nothing? Physicists Debate

24/03/2013 05:06
Clara Moskowitz, LiveScience Senior Writer Date: 22 March 2013 Time: 04:27 PM ET NEW YORK — It was all much ado about nothing as physicists and thinkers came together to debate the concept of nothing Wednesday (March 20) here at the American Museum of Natural History. The simple idea of...

Alien Life Inside A Postbiological Universe Where Time Has No Meaning

24/03/2013 04:56
23 March, 2013 MessageToEagle.com - The quest for extraterrestrial life continues. This time our journey takes us straight into the heart of a postbiological Universe where time no longer has a meaning, or has it? Ray Kurzweil, a leading American futurist have along with a number of other...

Changing History: "Space-Time" Cloak Could Hide Selected Events In Time And Make People Re-Appear!

24/03/2013 04:53
23 March, 2013 MessageToEagle.com - Have you ever wished that certain events could be "erased" from history or simply go unnoticed? What if changing history is really possible? We already know that scientists have developed "cloaking" prototypes that allow objects to become invisible. As fantastic...

Universe as an Infant: Fatter Than Expected and Kind of Lumpy

22/03/2013 16:50
By DENNIS OVERBYE Published: March 21, 2013 Astronomers released the latest and most exquisite baby picture yet of the universe on Thursday, one that showed it to be 80 million to 100 million years older and a little fatter than previously thought, with more matter in it and perhaps ever so...

'Earth Hour' evolves into springboard for wider action

22/03/2013 14:38
AFP Relax – 19 hours ago From Sydney Harbour Bridge, Buckingham Palace and the Brandenburg Gate to the Burj Khalifa tower, the Empire State Building, the Taj Mahal and Table Mountain, some of the world's greatest landmarks will briefly darken on Saturday night for Earth Hour, a campaign...

Planck challenges our understanding of the Universe

22/03/2013 14:33
by Staff Writers London, UK (SPX) Mar 22, 2013 Europe's Planck satellite - a flagship mission for the UK Space Agency - has compiled the most detailed map ever created of the cosmic microwave background (the relic radiation from the Big Bang). The new map refines our understanding of the Universe's...
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