Archive: 02/16/2009
New study provides insight into ways organ systems outside the brain may affect Alzheimer's disease
In Alzheimer's disease the brain accumulates a molecule called A-beta that can be quite toxic to brain cells. Many researchers believe that finding ways to clear A-beta may be a key to treatment or prevention of Alzheimer's ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 16, 2009 |
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Caltech economist makes a game of economic theory
How game theory and insights from cognitive psychology can shed light on the economic choices people and corporations make will be the focus of a topical lecture presented by California Institute of Technology (Caltech) behavioral ...
Feb 16, 2009 |
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Scientist models the mysterious travels of greenhouse gas
The global travel logs of greenhouse gases are based on atmospheric sampling locations sprinkled over the Earth and short towers that measure the uptake or release of carbon from a small patch of forest. But those measurements ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 16, 2009 |
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'Now you see it, now you don't'
(PhysOrg.com) -- Queen Mary scientists have, for the first time, used computer artificial intelligence to create previously unseen types of pictures to explore the abilities of the human visual system.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 16, 2009 |
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Teaching science: Is discovery better than telling?
Western Michigan University researchers have discovered that in the academic debate over whether young science students learn more through experimenting or direct instruction, there's little difference.
Feb 16, 2009 |
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