Professor Finally Publishes Controversial Brain Theory
Nov 19, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the late '90s, Asim Roy, a professor of information systems at Arizona State University, began to write a paper on a new brain theory. Now, 10 years later and after several rejections and ...
Scientists are high on idea that marijuana reduces memory impairment
Nov 19, 2008 |
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The more research they do, the more evidence Ohio State University scientists find that specific elements of marijuana can be good for the aging brain by reducing inflammation there and possibly even stimulating the formation ...
Adult stem cell breakthrough
Nov 19, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The first tissue-engineered trachea (windpipe), utilising the patient's own stem cells, has been successfully transplanted into a young woman with a failing airway. The bioengineered trachea ...
Mysterious Source of High-Energy Cosmic Radiation Discovered
Nov 19, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists announced Wednesday the discovery of a previously unidentified nearby source of high-energy cosmic rays. The finding was made with a NASA-funded balloon-borne instrument high over ...
Coming Soon: Improved Lithium Ion Batteries?
Nov 19, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Rechargeable lithium ion batteries provide portable devices that require a lot of energy, such as mobile telephones, digital cameras, and notebook computers, with power. However, their capacity, and thus ...
Quantum computing spins closer
Nov 19, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The promise of quantum computing is that it will dramatically outshine traditional computers in tackling certain key problems: searching large databases, factoring large numbers, creating uncrackable codes ...
Garlic chemical tablet treats diabetes I and II orally
Nov 19, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A drug based on a chemical found in garlic can treat diabetes types I and II when taken as a tablet, a study in the new Royal Society of Chemistry journal Metallomics says.
Scientists Sequence Woolly-Mammoth Genome
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Nov 19, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Penn State are leaders of a team that is the first to report the genome-wide sequence of an extinct animal, according to Webb Miller, professor of biology and of computer science ...
Microsoft Releases New Robot-Building Software
Nov 19, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As part of its belief that robotics is an important emerging technology, Microsoft has released Robotics Developer Studio 2008, a software program that enables users to create applications ...
Kanguru Announces First e-Flash (eSATA + USB)
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Nov 19, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Kanguru Solutions announced today the release of their first e-Flash drive. Utilizing eSATA (External Serial ATA) technology allows the Kanguru e-Flash to achieve performance speeds never ...
New theory of visual computation reveals how brain makes sense of natural scenes
Nov 19, 2008 |
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Computational neuroscientists at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a computational model that provides insight into the function of the brain's visual cortex and the information processing that enables people to perceive ...
Astronomers catch binary star explosion inside nebula
Nov 19, 2008 |
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The explosion of a binary star inside a planetary nebula has been captured by a team led by UCL (University College London) researchers – an event that has not been witnessed for more than 100 years. The study, published ...
Jupiter's great red spot is shrinking
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 19, 2008 |
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The best map of wind speeds on Jupiter ever produced proves that the massive weather system known as the Great Red Spot has shrunken over the past dozen years.
Are Flexible, Flapping Flying Machines in our Future?
Nov 19, 2008 |
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Modern aircraft have been fabulously successful with rigid wings and rotors. But just imagine the flying machines that would be possible if we could understand and harness the most efficient and acrobatic airfoils in nature: ...
Ultra-wideband radio rides a beam of light
Nov 19, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Multiple high-definition videos and other data-rich services may soon stream through homes, offices, ships and planes via new hybrid optical/ultra-wideband-radio systems developed by European ...
