Study Rules Out Fröhlich Condensates in Quantum Consciousness Model
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists don't fully understand how consciousness works, and, so far, no classical theories can explain consciousness in the brain. In light of this lack of understanding, some researchers ...
A 3-D view of remote galaxies
Mar 10, 2009 |
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For decades, distant galaxies that emitted their light six billion years ago were no more than small specks of light on the sky. With the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope in the early 1990s, astronomers ...
Study of protein structures reveals key events in evolutionary history
Mar 10, 2009 |
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A new study of proteins, the molecular machines that drive all life, also sheds light on the history of living organisms.
Caravaggio used photographic techniques: researcher
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Italian Renaissance painter Caravaggio used revolutionary optical instruments to "photograph" his models more than 200 years before the invention of the camera, according to a researcher in Florence.
ESA designs its smallest ever space engine to push back against sunshine
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- This month an ESA team is preparing to test the performance of the smallest yet most precisely controllable engine ever built for space, sensitive enough to counteract the force of incoming ...
Rising sea levels set to have major impacts around the world
Mar 10, 2009 |
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Research presented today at the International Scientific Congress on Climate Change in Copenhagen shows that the upper range of sea level rise by 2100 could be in the range of about one meter, or possibly more. In the lower ...
Who was Jesus?
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The historical person Jesus of Nazareth - beyond the accounts in the creeds and the Gospels, which are all characterized by religious belief - is the focus of Tobias Hägerland's dissertation from the University of Gothenburg, ...
Study suggests salt might be 'nature's antidepressant'
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 10, 2009 |
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Most people consume far too much salt, and a University of Iowa researcher has discovered one potential reason we crave it: it might put us in a better mood.
Brighten up! Paint study could save states millions
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 10, 2009 |
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A new study from North Carolina State University shows that painted road markings, such as the lines separating traffic lanes, are significantly better at reflecting headlights in the direction that the paint was applied. ...
Robotic gardening: MIT course creates robot-tending tomatoes
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the middle of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) sits a platform of fake grass with tomato plants nestled in terra cotta pots, growing under the light of an ...
What I was doing vs. what I did: How verb aspect influences memory and behavior
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
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If you want to perform at your peak, you should carefully consider how you discuss your past actions. In a new study in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, psychologists William Hart o ...
The Agulhas Current, in the southern hemisphere, may influence climate in Europe
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 10, 2009 |
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The PhD project presented by Gema Martínez-Méndez from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona focuses on the Agulhas Current and the ensuing warm water ...
Satellite spies on tree-eating bugs
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More than 150 years after a small Eurasian tree named tamarisk or saltcedar started taking over river banks throughout the U.S. Southwest, saltcedar leaf beetles were unleashed to defoliate the exotic invader.
Amazonian amphibian diversity traced to Andes
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Colorful poison frogs in the Amazon owe their great diversity to ancestors that leapt into the region from the Andes Mountains several times during the last 10 million years, a new study from The University ...
Brain damage found in cognitively normal people with Alzheimer's marker
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 10, 2009 |
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Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have linked a potential indicator of Alzheimer's disease to brain damage in humans with no signs of mental impairment.
