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“Everyone has an interest in this”, explains Sonia Arrison author of a new book 100 Plus: How the Coming Age of Longevity Will Change Everything, From Career…
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Optimists at Silicon Valley think tank Singularity University are pushing the frontiers of human progress through innovation and emerging technologies, looki…
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In a step toward computers that mimic the parallel processing of complex biological brains, researchers from HRL Laboratories, LLC, and the University of Michigan have built a type of artificial synapse.
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Lecture by geneticist and A.D. White Professor-at-Large J.
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In a new MIT study, researchers used optogenetics to show that memories reside in very specific brain cells, and that simply activating a tiny fraction of…
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Scientists have successfully harnessed neurons in mouse brains, allowing them to at least partially control a specific memory. Researchers have known for decades that stimulating various regions of the brain can trigger behaviors and even memories.
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How did humans become the swarming, world-spanning species that we are today? A lot of reasons, sure, but one of them may very well have been the invention of cooking.
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There is an emerging consensus among scientists that animals share functional parallels with humans’ conscious metacognition — that is, our ability to reflect on our own mental processes and guide and optimize them, one expert says.
The Institute has done well, Allen said in a press release, but it could do better. The new expanded ABI will tackle big questions in neuroscience concerning the way the brain stores and encodes information and what cellular building blocks underlie all brain function, the idea being that this will provide even more information to the neuroscience community and in turn drive research on the whole to more and faster innovations. If it’s a shot in the arm Allen is looking for, a $300 million investment might just do the trick.
Do yourself a favor and watch this short film. What a breathtaking vision.
Zealous About Reality
Fat, naked woman on PCP terrorizes the neighborhood (NSFW)
Someone shoot it with a tranq and put it back in its cage!
I am this person.
(via Xprize and Qualcomm will offer $10 million for the Tricorder Xprize)
The Tricorder X PRIZE is a $10 million prize to...
It’s like “I’m On A Boat” got all scienced out. Quite the Friday jam.
How Politicians Dodge Questions
“In the studies, 333 participants watched debate videos in which speakers varied in whether they addressed the...
The world’s ants captured in 3D, a new project by the California Academy of Sciences to take detailed images of ~12,000 ant species.
So, a story’s making the rounds — again — on Tumblr that Bill Nye was booed for contradicting the Bible in Waco, Texas, by pointing out that the moon doesn’t generate its own light.
This!
Despite a modest appearance, this is definitely one of the coolest articles I’ve...
