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Neuroscientists boost memory using genetics and a new memory-enhancing drug

When the activity of a molecule that is normally elevated during viral infections is inhibited in the brain, mice learn and remember better, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine reported in a recent article in the journal ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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HESS-II: a new camera for exploring the violent Universe

HESS, one of the world's best-performing ground-based gamma ray detectors, will soon boast a fifth telescope that will double its potential for making new discoveries. The telescope will be equipped with a ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jun 17, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Making waves in the brain: Researchers use lasers to induce gamma brain waves in mice

Scientists have studied high-frequency brain waves, known as gamma oscillations, for more than 50 years, believing them crucial to consciousness, attention, learning and memory. Now, for the first time, MIT researchers and ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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Brainwaves could help understanding of mental health disorders

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Aberdeen have unlocked the details of a communication process that helps to generate the brainwaves that allow us to think and learn.

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created Feb 23, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0




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Two new records: The world's strongest and purest neutron beam

The world's strongest neutron beam is produced by a scientific instrument at the research neutron source FRM II (Forschungs-Neutronenquelle Heinz Maier-Leibnitz) at the Technischen Universitaet Muenchen (TUM). ...

Physics / General Physics

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NASA small explorer mission celebrates ten years and forty thousand X-ray flares

(PhysOrg.com) -- On February 5, 2002, NASA launched what was then called the High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (HESSI) into orbit. Renamed within months as the Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Radio stars: Caltech's astronomy professor searches for cosmic radio waves

Growing up in rural northwest Ireland, beyond the reach of city lights, Gregg Hallinan fell in love with the night sky. "When you didn't have bad weather, and you didn't have clouds, the skies were nothing ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

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GABA deficits disturb endocannabinoid system

Changes in the endocannabinoid system may have important implications for psychiatric and addiction disorders. This brain system is responsible for making substances that have effects on brain function which resemble those ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Mapping the destructive path from cigarette to emphysema

From the cherry red tip of a lighted cigarette through the respiratory tract to vital lung cells, the havoc created by tobacco smoke seems almost criminal, activating genes and portions of the immune system to create inflammation ...

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created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Fermi telescope explores new energy extremes

(PhysOrg.com) -- After more than three years in space, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is extending its view of the high-energy sky into a largely unexplored electromagnetic range. Today, the Fermi ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

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Research confirms novel strategy in fight against infectious diseases

New research shows that infectious disease-fighting drugs could be designed to block a pathogen's entry into cells rather than to kill the bug itself.

Medicine & Health / Research

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Hubble racks up 10,000 science papers

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has passed another milestone in its 21 years of exploration: the 10,000th refereed science paper has been published. This makes Hubble one of the most prolific ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

In the heart of Cygnus, NASA's Fermi reveals a cosmic-ray cocoon

(PhysOrg.com) -- The constellation Cygnus, now visible in the western sky as twilight deepens after sunset, hosts one of our galaxy's richest-known stellar construction zones. Astronomers viewing the region ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 28, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Preparing for future human exploration: Measuring the radiation environment on Mars

NASA will launch the Mars Science Laboratory on Nov. 26, 2011, to assess the past and present habitability of the Red Planet's surface. The mission will land Curiosity, a rover equipped with 10 instruments designed to search ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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