Parts of brain battle over decisions
Researchers have identified areas in the brain that anticipate joy and fear and say they battle it out when a big decision is to be made.
Researchers have identified areas in the brain that anticipate joy and fear and say they battle it out when a big decision is to be made.
Sep 1, 2005
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Building on its leading position in rollable displays, Philips Polymer Vision is revealing its Concept Readius at the Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA) in Berlin, Germany, September 2-7. Philips Concept Readius is a prototype ...
Sep 1, 2005
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Just as travelers figure out which restaurant is good by the numbers of cars in the parking lot, bumblebees decide which flowers to visit by seeing which ones already have bee visitors. Bumblebees that watched other bees ...
Sep 1, 2005
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Whenever cream is poured into coffee, these two liquids form a homogeneous mixture, which is difficult to separate again. Other liquids, such as water and oil, do not mix, instead forming emulsions, such as salad dressing.
Sep 1, 2005
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SanDisk today introduced the Sansa Car Transmitter, a device that will play music stored on a SanDisk Sansa MP3 digital player through a car radio. The stereo transmitter plugs into a standard vehicle cigarette lighter and ...
Sep 1, 2005
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Preparing for an onslaught of data to be processed and distributed in the upcoming years, scientists at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and at the California Institute of Technology successfully ...
Sep 1, 2005
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Cingular Wireless and LG Electronics Thursday launched two new handsets with GSM, the C2000 low cost clamshell camera phone and the lightweight, great value C1500 clamshell phone. The C2000 and C1500 models both allow users ...
Sep 1, 2005
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More than 100 scientists from Australia, Asia, Europe and the US have been probing the genome of the mouse in a joint study lasting several years. Their results in some aspects have completely overturned geneticists' traditional ...
Sep 1, 2005
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A British girl was saved from drowning by a computer after a warning system alerted security when she sank to the bottom of a swimming pool.
Sep 1, 2005
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The U.S. technology community is lending its support to efforts to cleanup damage from Hurricane Katrina.
Sep 1, 2005
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