The brain is an exceedingly complex machine that harbors about 100 trillion neural connections . So it comes as no surprise that neuroscientists make great efforts to reduce or represent that complexity in their research with innovative imaging techniques.
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Feed SubscriptionDrinking Coffee to Stave Off Alzheimer’s. Show Me the Money
Is it really as simple at that? I got a tweet from a reader yesterday pointing me to an article in the LA Times. [More]
Read More »Heat wave bakes U.S. Midwest; East Coast is next
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Read More »Study Will Watch Drivers Watch The Road
What do you do while driving to make the streets more dangerous?
Read More »Being Mister Fantastic
Look at yourself in your bathroom mirror. [More]
Read More »Absence Of Top Predators Brings Unanticipated Changes
Humans have played a role in large animal extinctions since time immemorial. The giant ground sloth of Texas
Read More »NASA Spacecraft Enters Orbit Around Asteroid Vesta–A Space First
An unmanned NASA probe made history 117 million miles from Earth on Saturday (July 16) when it arrived at the huge asteroid Vesta, making it the first spacecraft ever to orbit an object in the solar system's asteroid belt. The Dawn spacecraft entered orbit around Vesta after a four-year chase and will spend about a year studying the huge space rock before moving on to visit another asteroid called Ceres
Read More »Heat wave plunges much of U.S. into a deep fryer
By Molly O'Toole WASHINGTON, July 16 (Reuters) - Fiery reds and oranges [More]
Read More »Smoke signals
Oh weather; a joy, a pain, the making of a beautiful day or a miserable evening.
Read More »Finding good information on the internet
Have you heard about the highly endangered tree octopus of the forests of the Pacific Northwest?
Read More »False Color Images of Saturn’s Massive Lightning Storm
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Read More »The Jellyfish that Conquered Land — and Australia
Most people know jellyfish and their ilk — the cnidarians, of sea pen, anemone, coral, and man’o'war fame — live in water and (happily for us) stay pretty well confined to it. [More]
Read More »The Reality and Utility of Bear Paternity Tests
It was summer of 2008 and the rhetoric was getting as hot as a globally warmed hood on a ’91 Chevy Camaro RS (my 2nd car, with t-tops of course). [More]
Read More »Diamonds Lose Mass in Sunlight
By James Mitchell Crow of Nature magazine It might be among the hardest materials known, but place a diamond in a patch of sunlight and it will start to lose atoms, say a team of physicists in Australia. [More]
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