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Oldest fossil brain found in Kansas

Oldest fossil brain found in Kansas (Videos)

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0

When Alan Pradel of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris CAT scanned a 300-million-year-old fossilized iniopterygian from Kansas, he and his colleagues saw a symmetrical blob nestled within ...





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Dino Team Returns to SSRL

Dino Team Returns to SSRL

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jan 11, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

The experimental hutches at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory are well familiar with a macabre tide of materials brought in for close investigation. A recent tally includes ancient parchment texts, ...


'Hobbit' fossils represent a new species, concludes UM anthropologist

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 17, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (15) | comments 2

University of Minnesota anthropology professor Kieran McNulty (along with colleague Karen Baab of Stony Brook University in New York) has made an important contribution toward solving one of the greatest paleoanthropological ...


Chilecebus Skull

Big brains arose twice in higher primates

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created Jul 09, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (26) | comments 1

After taking a fresh look at an old fossil, John Flynn, Frick Curator of Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History, and colleagues determined that the brains of the ancestors of modern Neotropical ...


Scientists Shed New Light On Right Brain Activity

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

It’s a world first: thanks to new technology developed by the University of Victoria, Canada, researchers can now show how multiple parts of the right brain dynamically process spatial relationships.


Growing evidence suggests progesterone should be considered a treatment option for traumatic brain injuries

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at Emory University in Atlanta, GA, recommend that progesterone (PROG), a naturally occurring hormone found in both males and females that can protect damaged cells in the central and peripheral nervous systems, ...


No change in brain tumor incidence during a time when cell phone usage increased

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

There was no substantial change in brain tumor incidence among adults 5 to 10 years after cell phone usage sharply increased, according to a new brief communication published online December 3 in the Journal of the National Ca ...


Protein link may be key to new treatment for aggressive brain tumor

Protein link may be key to new treatment for aggressive brain tumor

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Biomedical researchers at the University of Central Florida have found a protein that could hold the key to treating one of the most common and aggressive brain tumors in adults.


Extinct goat Myotragus balearicus

Extinct goat was cold-blooded

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (39) | comments 11

(PhysOrg.com) -- An extinct goat that lived on a barren Mediterranean island survived for millions of years by reducing in size and by becoming cold-blooded, which has never before been discovered in mammals.


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The Queen and I: How autistic brain distinguishes oneself from others

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Scientists at the University of Cambridge have discovered that the brains of individuals with autism are less active when engaged in self-reflective thought. The study published today in the journal Brain provid ...


Brain Seizure Implant

Epilepsy Patients Are Given New Hope With Brain Implant

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A startup company, Neuropace in Mountain View Ca., has developed a device that offers new hope for epilepsy patients. The device is designed to neutralize the abnormal electrical activity ...



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