News tagged with networking functionality
Manipulating single molecules to unravel secrets of protein folding
Physicists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) are opening a new window into the life of biological cells, using a technique that lets them grab the ends of a single protein molecule and pull, making ...
Oct 27, 2011 |
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Brain 'maps' reveal clue to mental decline
(PhysOrg.com) -- The human brain operates as a highly interconnected small-world network, not as a collection of discrete regions as previously believed, with important implications for why many of us experience cognitive ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 08, 2011 |
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New information on the development of the brain
With their French colleagues, researchers at the University of Helsinki have found a mechanism in the memory centre of newborn that adjusts the maturation of the brain for the information processing required later in life. ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 14, 2010 |
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Easter Island discovery sends archaeologists back to drawing board
Archaeologists have disproved the fifty-year-old theory underpinning our understanding of how the famous stone statues were moved around Easter Island.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 12, 2010 |
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Japan phone makers team up to develop new platform
Four leading Japanese electronics makers said Monday they will team up with top network operator NTT DoCoMo to develop the operating system for its next-generation cellphones, due for launch next year.
Apr 26, 2010 |
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Scans of brain networks may help predict injury's effects
Clinicians may be able to better predict the effects of strokes and other brain injuries by adapting a scanning approach originally developed for study of brain organization, neurologists at Washington University ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 23, 2010 |
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Songbirds provide insight into speech production (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- With the help of a little singing bird, Penn State physicists are gaining insight into how the human brain functions, which may lead to a better understanding of complex vocal behavior, human ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 18, 2010 |
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Biology May Not Be So Complex Afterall
(PhysOrg.com) -- Centuries ago, scientists began reducing the physics of the universe into a few, key laws described by a handful of parameters. Such simple descriptions have remained elusive for complex biological ...
Feb 24, 2010 |
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Familiar and newly learned words are processed by the same neural networks in the brain
Our vocabulary continues to grow and expand even in adulthood. Just ten years ago, the word 'blog' did not yet exist - and now we no longer remember when we heard this word for the first time or when we learned its meaning. ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 28, 2009 |
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Pot shot: Scientists find cannabis trigger for forgetfulness
Researchers on Sunday said they had pinpointed the biochemical pathway by which cannabis causes memory loss in mice.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 02, 2009 |
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Windows XP ATM's Under Hacker Attacks in Europe - US Could Be Next!
(PhysOrg.com) -- There have been approximately 20 ATM's in Eastern Europe that have been compromised. These attacks are in the early stages of development and would probably gain momentum and even spread to ...
Jun 04, 2009 |
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Computer simulations explain the limitations of working memory
Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet (KI) have constructed a mathematical activity model of the brain's frontal and parietal parts, to increase the understanding of the capacity of the working ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 31, 2009 |
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What is 'Real'? How Our Brain Differentiates Between Reality and Fantasy
(PhysOrg.com) -- Most people can easily tell the difference between reality and fantasy. We know that characters in novels and movies are fictitious, and we also understand that historical figures - even if ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 23, 2009 |
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