Neuroscientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have made a breakthrough that brings mind reading a step closer to reality. The Guardian reports that through the study of brain activity, implants can translate thoughts into words, which will prove useful to those people who have lost the ability to speak. Listening to the windmills of [...]
Stealth technology has made the next great leap forward, reports Agence France-Presse. U.S. scientists are significantly closer to being able to produce an “invisibility cloak” that completely masks a large, free-standing three-dimensional object. Manipulating light, military expectations According to research posted in the New Journal of Physics, researchers at the University of Texas in Austin [...]
Two recent studies have found psilocybin mushrooms, or “magic mushrooms,” have properties that could make them useful psychotherapeutic drugs. The hallucinogenic fungi were shown to act in a similar manner to antidepressants. Brain activity slowed rather than stimulated Two studies are being published about the health effects of psilocybin mushrooms, often referred to as “magic [...]
Roads can be dangerous for individuals who are hearing-impaired because auditory signals often indicate danger. A new study has found that many people are choosing to put themselves in similar danger by wearing headphones turned up too loud. The Injury Prevention study The online journal Injury Prevention published a study by the University of Maryland [...]
Susan G. Komen for the Cure has contributed much in the fight against breast and cervical cancer, but the organization’s recent decision to pull its funding of Planned Parenthood has drawn critical fire. Susan G. Komen CEO Nancy Brinker insists that the media’s portrayal of events has been “a gross mischaracterization.” Three of 19 clinics [...]
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Neuroscientists at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Ohio have made what they call an amazing advance in the battle against Alzheimer’s disease. Agence France-Presse reports that mice bred to have Alzheimer’s, when treated with the immune system cancer drug bexarotene, became measurably smarter within hours as brain plaque dissolved. Study findings were [...]
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