Yes, there is a giant cloud of alcohol in outer space. It's in a region known as W3(OH), only about 6500 light years away. Unfortunately it is methyl alcohol (commonly known as wood alcohol, though this stuff is not derived ...
Astronomy
Sep 9, 2014
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The mechanical force that a single fungal cell or bacterial colony exerts on a plant cell may seem vanishingly small, but it plays a heavy role in setting up some of the most fundamental symbiotic relationships in biology. ...
Biotechnology
Aug 27, 2014
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Specialists at the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM) developed a device able to guide blind or visually impaired people in established routes through electrical stimulation of the organs associated with balance (vestibular ...
Engineering
Aug 25, 2014
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Personality is defined as "the combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual's unique character" (Psychology Today). Understanding one's personality type is crucial, not only in adapting to a workplace ...
Social Sciences
Aug 22, 2014
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(Medical Xpress)—Livermore scientists are developing electrode array technology for monitoring brain activity as part of a collaborative research project with UC San Francisco to better understand how the neural circuitry ...
Engineering
Jul 17, 2014
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Professor Takashi Yoshimura and colleagues of the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (WPI-ITbM) of Nagoya University have finally found the missing piece in how birds sense light by identifying a deep brain photoreceptor ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 8, 2014
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Artificially stimulating a brain region believed to play a key role in learning, reward and motivation induced monkeys to change which of two images they choose to look at. In experiments reported online in the journal Current ...
Plants & Animals
May 29, 2014
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Scientists have advanced a brain-scanning technology that tracks what the brain is doing by shining dozens of tiny LED lights on the head. This new generation of neuroimaging compares favorably to other approaches but avoids ...
Optics & Photonics
May 19, 2014
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To speed up reproduction, there's no substitute for the tender touch of a live cockroach.
Plants & Animals
Apr 1, 2014
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To understand genetic mechanisms underlying insecticide resistance, scientists employed fruit flies and caffeine, a stimulant surrogate for xenobiotics in lab studies on resistance.
Biotechnology
Mar 26, 2014
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