Study links seabird deaths to soap-like foam produced by red-tide algae

Space & Earth / Environment

Feb 21, 2009 | 4.2 / 5 (5) | 0

In late 2007, hundreds of dead and stranded seabirds washed up on the shores of Monterey Bay, their feathers saturated with water and coated with an unknown substance. After an intensive investigation, scientists determined ...

Decoding short-term memory with fMRI

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Feb 21, 2009 | 4.2 / 5 (5) | 0

People voluntarily pick what information they store in short-term memory. Now, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), researchers can see just what information people are holding in memory based ...