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Phineas Gage, Neurology’s Most Interesting Case, Gets His Head Re-Examined With a New Neural Map

Getting Inside Phineas Gage’s Head Copyright John Darrell Van Horn and the UCLA Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, 2012 Scientists are getting another chance to get inside Phineas Gage’s head. Continue reading

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Phineas Gage, Neurology’s Most Interesting Case, Gets His Head Re-Examined With a New Neural Map

Getting Inside Phineas Gage’s Head Copyright John Darrell Van Horn and the UCLA Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, 2012 Scientists are getting another chance to get inside Phineas Gage’s head. Continue reading

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Phineas Gage, Neurology’s Most Interesting Case, Gets His Head Re-Examined With a New Neural Map

Getting Inside Phineas Gage’s Head Copyright John Darrell Van Horn and the UCLA Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, 2012 Scientists are getting another chance to get inside Phineas Gage’s head. Continue reading

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Video: New Finger-Tap Power Generator Uses Viruses to Make Electricity

Piezoelectric devices promise to draw power from your footsteps or heartbeat , change the channel on your TV, and complete all sorts of helpful tasks – but they generally work in the nano-mechanical realm, requiring synthetic materials to function. Continue reading

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Video: New Finger-Tap Power Generator Uses Viruses to Make Electricity

Piezoelectric devices promise to draw power from your footsteps or heartbeat , change the channel on your TV, and complete all sorts of helpful tasks – but they generally work in the nano-mechanical realm, requiring synthetic materials to function. Continue reading

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A Personal Simulation of Your Blood Could Help Doctors Study Disease

Simulated Platelets Simulated platelets seen under flow conditions in a virtual blood model. Continue reading

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New Primordial Protozoan Species Is Not in Any Known Kingdom of Life

New Life Form This strange protozoan has four flagella. Continue reading

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NASA’s Flying Telescope Captures the Death Sighs of a Sun

Dying Star NASA’s SOFIA telescope and the FORCAST instrument captured this color-composite image of the planetary nebula Minkowski 2-9 (M2-9), showing a dying sun-like star. Continue reading

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Scientists Hijack Mouse Neurons to Take Control of Their Memories

Albino Lab Mouse Wikimedia Commons In a new study with powerful implications for mental health, scientists hijacked the memories of lab mice , inducing them to form synthetic “hybrid memories” that were a combination of real experience and confused context. Continue reading

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Yes, Deepwater Horizon Oil Did Enter the Food Chain

Zooplankton This is the zooplankton beroidae. Continue reading

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