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NTT develops current-injection photonic-crystal laser
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation has developed an current-injection photonic-crystal laser with ultralow power consumption that can be applied to off-chip and on-chip optical data transmission for ...
Feb 14, 2012 |
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Climatic warming-induced change in timings of 24 seasonal divisions in China since 1960
Changes of seasonal cycles are important to social and economic activities, agricultural planning in particular. Qian et al. quantified changes in the timings of 24 seasonal divisions conventionally known ...
Jan 24, 2012 |
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'Dramatic' solar flare could disrupt Earth communications (Update)
An unusual solar flare observed by a NASA space observatory (video) on Tuesday could cause some disruptions to satellite communications and power on Earth over the next day or so, officials said. ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 07, 2011 |
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Breastfeeding tied to stronger maternal response to baby's cry
A new study from the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry finds that mothers who feed their babies breast milk exclusively, as opposed to formula, are more likely to bond emotionally with their child during the first ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 20, 2011 |
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New direction for epilepsy treatment
If common anticonvulsant drugs fail to manage epileptic seizures, then perhaps the anti-inflammatory route is the way to go. That's according to Mattia Maroso and colleagues from the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 28, 2011 |
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In adolescence, the power to resist blooms in the brain
(PhysOrg.com) -- Just when children are faced with intensifying peer pressure to misbehave, regions of the brain are actually blossoming in a way that heighten the ability to resist risky behavior, report ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 09, 2011 |
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How do we combine faces and voices?
Human social interactions are shaped by our ability to recognise people. Faces and voices are known to be some of the key features that enable us to identify individual people, and they are rich in information such as gender, ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 09, 2011 |
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Sleep-deprived people make risky decisions based on too much optimism
The powers that be in Las Vegas figured out something long before neuroscientists at two Duke University medical schools confirmed their ideas this week: Trying to make decisions while sleep-deprived can lead to a case of ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 08, 2011 |
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Teen brains over-process rewards, suggesting root of risky behavior, mental ills
University of Pittsburgh researchers have recorded neuron activity in adolescent rat brains that could reveal the biological root of the teenage propensity to consider rewards over consequences and explain ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 26, 2011 |
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Infants' hemodynamic responses to happy and angry facial expressions
Japanese research group led by Prof. Ryusuke Kakigi and Dr. Emi Nakato (National Institute for Physiological Sciences: NIPS) and Prof. Masami K Yamaguchi (Chuo University) found that the hemispheric differences in the temporal ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 05, 2010 |
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Zebrafish yield clues to how we process visual information
(PhysOrg.com) -- To a hungry fish on the prowl, the split-second neural processing required to see, track, and gobble up a darting flash of prey is a matter of survival.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 30, 2010 |
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From touchpad to thought-pad? Research shows that digital images can be manipulated with the mind
Move over, touchpad screens: New research funded in part by the National Institutes of Health shows that it is possible to manipulate complex visual images on a computer screen using only the mind.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 27, 2010 |
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Imaging study shows brain responds more to close friends
People's brains are more responsive to friends than to strangers, even if the stranger has more in common, according to a study in the Oct. 13 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. Researchers examined a brai ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 12, 2010 |
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New powerful tool can visualize dynamic activity of electrical signals in neuronal populations
Information processing in the brain relies on the coordinated activity between populations of different types of neurons, each with distinct electrical properties and connections. Understanding how complex ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 27, 2010 |
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Could brain abnormalities cause antisocial behavior and drug abuse in boys?
Antisocial boys who abuse drugs, break laws, and act recklessly are not just "bad" kids. Many of these boys may have malfunctioning brains, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Colorado School of ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 23, 2010 |
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