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What is going on in the brain of someone who has the deluded belief that they are brain dead? A team of researchers led by neuropsychologist Vanessa Charland-Varville at CHU Sart-Tilman Hospital and the University of Liege has attempted to find out by scanning the brain of a depressed patient who held this very belief.
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We all know that the Earth rotates beneath our feet, but new research from ANU has revealed that the centre of the Earth is out of sync with the rest of the planet, frequently speeding up and slowi...
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Associate Professor Hrvoje Tkalcic from the ANU College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences and his team used earthquake doublets to measure the rotation speed of Earth’s inner core over the last 50 years.
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It would take a lot of food to get astronauts to Mars, but what if they could get whatever they wanted at the push of a button? NASA is funding an
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How much would you pay for a grilled cheese sandwich?$6? Maybe $7, if it was deliciously fresh and you were really hungry?
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Measure your pulse in real-time with Fujitsu's facial imaging technology (http://www.diginfo.tv/v/13-0034-r-en.php) 14/5/2013 Fujitsu Laboratories, Fujitsu R...
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http://sndrv.nl/ultimarker - augmenting your Ultimaker 3D printer. Both 3D printing and augmented reality are seen as the two most impactful and radical inno...
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These shapes were 3D printed entirely from sugar by Sugar Lab. By transforming sugar into a dimensional, structural medium, it becomes a printing material.
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The study, published online inEvolutionary Applications, not only shows how bird songs can vary, but demonstrates how combining satellite data with field studies can trace the evolution and variation of any species. It is also the first study to ever use satellite data to track variation of earth-bound species of animals or plants.
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Men and women pay attention to babies differently
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Once your adult teeth come in, that's all you've got to work with. Knock one out, or lose a few to decay, and you'll have to get dentures. It's a pain,
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Two fossil discoveries from the East African Rift reveal new information about the evolution of primates.
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Geological analyses of the study site indicate that the finds are 25 million years old, significantly older than fossils previously documented for either of the two groups.
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The Powerball jackpot is up to $475 million, the second-largest in the lottery's history. Lottery officials put the odds of winning at one in 195 million, "meaning you are 251 times more likely to be hit by lightning," reports Alan Farnham of ABC's Good Morning America. |
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Researchers say the colors we find in music are actually the colors of the emotions the music makes us feel.
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Landscape still littered with mines two decades after wars ended.
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A team of Croatian researchers are training honeybees to sniff out unexploded mines that still pepper the Balkans.
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Differences divide us. Human society fractures along lines defined by politics, religion, ethnicity, and perhaps most fundamentally, language.
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Meyer’s group of research scientists, postdocs and students in mathematics and political science has developed a new way to characterize the relationships among communities defined by different characteristics such as language or religion.
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ScoreCleaner Notes is an iPhone app that takes a simple melody and instantly turns it into written notation. 
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May 21, 2013 7:42 AM
Finally: instant sheet music! Very cool. I just hope I can hum or play an idea and it will do the rest...hehehe.
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Your brain's dominant side correlates with which ear you use while speaking on the phone. Researchers believe this finding will help doctors isolate the language centers in the brain before surgery. 
Marilee Ritchie Hird's comment May 20, 2013 6:40 PM
This is just a supposition. They are basing it on the fact of handedness, and ASSUMING it indicates brain side dominance. They are doing this because they are HOPING for a new way to test for brain dominance.
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This tech, called Inside-Out, combines biometric data and visual cues to pinpoint emotions. It is like lifelogging only with an added 'emotions' component.
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Signal Snowboards recently unveiled the world's first ever 3D printed snowboard design. It really shows that 3D printing can virtually create anything.
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Theoretical physics is about tweaking the knobs and dials and assumptions of the laws that govern the universe and then interpolating those laws back to examine how they affect our daily lives, or how they affect the universe that we observe, or even if they are consistent with each other.
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A team of Canadian and UK researchers has discovered what may be some of the oldest pockets of water on the planet – and they may contain life.
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You might not realise it, but statistics rule your life. Think about that for a minute. Because even if you claim you know nothing about maths, maths knows a lot about you.
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We know that the mainland populations who seem to have displaced Minoan civlization >1500 BC were Greek speakers!
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Here’s something I didn’t know happened: Under the right conditions, the exhaust from ships plying the ocean can form clouds, leaving tracks criss-crossing the sky. This image, taken by NASA’s Earth-observing Terra satellite on Apr. |
Polman’s research is a good reminder that social status matters, but not always in the way you might think.