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The future cometh: Science, technology and humanity at Singularity Summit 2011 (Part I)

(PhysOrg.com) -- In its essence, technology can be seen as our perpetually evolving attempt to extend our sensorimotor cortex into physical reality: From the earliest spears and boomerangs augmenting our arms, ...

Technology / Other

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (44) | comments 50 | with audio podcast feature

Political views are reflected in brain structure

We all know that people at opposite ends of the political spectrum often really can't see eye to eye. Now, a new report published online on April 7th in Current Biology reveals that those differences in political orientation are ti ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Apr 07, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (22) | comments 116 | with audio podcast

Researchers question whether genius might be a result of hormonal influences

A longstanding debate as to whether genius is a byproduct of good genes or good environment has an upstart challenger that may take the discussion in an entirely new direction. University of Alberta researcher Marty Mrazik ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 11, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (19) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

The future cometh: Science, technology and humanity at Singularity Summit 2011 (Part II)

(PhysOrg.com) -- In its essence, technology can be seen as our perpetually evolving attempt to extend our sensorimotor cortex into physical reality: From the earliest spears and boomerangs augmenting our arms, horses and ...

Technology / Other

created Dec 02, 2011 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (23) | comments 42 | with audio podcast feature

Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core chip stokes tablet wars

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nvidia has launched its Tegra 3, the quad-core chip designed for mobile devices. Tech and investor blogs were busy yesterday assessing what this means for upcoming tablets and smartphones ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

Parts of brain can switch functions: study

(PhysOrg.com) -- When your brain encounters sensory stimuli, such as the scent of your morning coffee or the sound of a honking car, that input gets shuttled to the appropriate brain region for analysis. The ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 28, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Web-crawling the brain

The brain is a black box. A complex circuitry of neurons fires information through channels, much like the inner workings of a computer chip. But while computer processors are regimented with the deft economy of an assembly ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 09, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Advice vs. experience: Genes predict learning style

Researchers at Brown University have found that specific genetic variations can predict how persistently people will believe advice they are given, even when it is contradicted by experience.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Monkeys with larger friend networks have more gray matter

New research in the UK on rhesus macaque monkeys has found for the first time that if they live in larger groups they develop more gray matter in parts of the brain involved in processing information on social ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 04, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

ARM deals efficiency ace with big.LITTLE and Cortex-A7

(PhysOrg.com) -- Intel has been slow playing catch-up to ARM in the mobile area, but, based on the latest announcement from ARM, Intel will need to work all the harder to upstage a show of innovation in the ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Oct 21, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Noninvasive brain implant could someday translate thoughts into movement

(PhysOrg.com) -- A brain implant developed at the University of Michigan uses the body's skin like a conductor to wirelessly transmit the brain's neural signals to control a computer, and may eventually be ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 16, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Size matters: Length of songbirds' playlists linked to brain region proportions

Call a bird "birdbrained" and they may call "fowl." Cornell University researchers have proven that the capacity for learning in birds is not linked to overall brain size, but to the relative size and proportion of their ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 19, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

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

created Mar 09, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Neuropsychologist proves that some blind people 'see' with their ears

Dr. Olivier Collignon of the University of Montreal's Saint-Justine Hospital Research Centre compared the brain activity of people who can see and people who were born blind, and discovered that the part of the brain that ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 16, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Searching the brain for social networks

(PhysOrg.com) -- Why do some people tend to make inappropriate comments in social situations? Why do some people misread cues about how others feel about them?

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Apr 05, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 5 | with audio podcast