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Identifying our inner compass

November 30, -0001 • 12:00 AM

Some of our senses like sight, smell and sensation are so ingrained that we often forget how complex they can be at a neural level. For instance, if we walk into a room and move around for a while, most of us will be able to relocate the door we came in through easily. But how does our brain do that? For humans, to begin with, it essentially requires two basic pieces of information: our position and the direction that we are facing. For research done to identify the cells involved in the...

Identifying our inner compass

November 30, -0001 • 12:00 AM

Some of our senses like sight, smell and sensation are so ingrained that we often forget how complex they can be at a neural level. For instance, if we walk into a room and move around for a while, most of us will be able to relocate the door we came in through easily. But how does our brain do that? For humans, to begin with, it essentially requires two basic pieces of information: our position and the direction we are facing. For research done to identify the cells involved in the navigational...

Running on Mathematics

November 30, -0001 • 12:00 AM

What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of sports and mathematics? Most likely, chalk and cheese, right? Believe it or not, recent research by a team of French mathematicians led by Dr. Amandine Aftalion at the Laboratoire de Mathematiques de Versailles has showed how sports can benefit greatly from mathematics. When asked about the motivation behind this study, Dr. Aftalion says her love for mathematics and all kinds of sports including swimming-which she practices...

Banking on lies

November 30, -0001 • 12:00 AM

The world is still recovering from the devastating effects of the massive economic recession that occurred in 2008. Recently, Germany breathed with relief as it narrowly avoided returning to recession. This recent recession, considered to be one of the worst in history since the Great Depression, has produced huge income inequalities across North America. Since economic scams perpetrated by some of the world's biggest banks were instrumental in the collapse of the global economy, it is not...

Munich WW2 bomb detonation

November 30, -0001 • 12:00 AM

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The need for a water revolution

November 30, -0001 • 12:00 AM

Everyone needs water in sufficient quantity and portable quality to live a healthy life. The many uses of water, Agricultural, domestic, power generation, quenching thirsty and leisure activities - are related to the economic, social mental and physical health of the world's population. Almost two (2) billion people drink water you wouldn't use to wash your car or clothes. Another 1.4 billion wish they had that water to drink. In many parts of the world, getting enough water to survive is a...

And now...Alzheimer's in a dish

November 30, -0001 • 12:00 AM

Alzheimer's is a common form of dementia that is irreversible and slowly but progressively destroys thinking and memory skills. The World Health Organization estimates nearly 35 million people living with Alzheimer's worldwide and that this number could double within the next couple of decades. Treating and caring for people with this neurodegenerative disease can be a very expensive affair and also prove to be emotionally taxing on the caregivers. As a result, a search for cure that detects...

We see what we want to see

November 30, -0001 • 12:00 AM

    We all live in world of information overload. Our visual and auditory senses are constantly bombarded with an abundance of data that needs to be parsed! Often times our brain processes information way too quickly with too little data. So given a colossal amount of noisy and chaotic information, how does one make up his/her mind? A global team of scientists along with Dr. Quiroga as the lead author, from the Center for Systems Neuroscience at the University of Leicester, has tried to answer...

The gray matter of Risk

November 30, -0001 • 12:00 AM

Do you feel the adrenaline rush kick in when you are sitting at the roulette table in a casino at Las Vegas? Or do your better instincts prevail with a sense of foreboding, warning against gambling away your hard earned money? Well, believe it or not, your brain scan may predict which category you belong to! New research from a global scientific collaboration, led by Dr. Ifat Levy at the Yale School of Medicine shows that, a picture speaks a thousand words! And in this case- about your...

Making the brain say, "I love Kale!"

November 30, -0001 • 12:00 AM

Tempted to order dessert after dinner even though you know you shouldn't? Well, you are certainly not an exception! Most of us at some point in our lives have been victims of irresistible fried foods and decadent desserts. But what if you could train your brain to drool over kale instead of cake and baked chips instead of French fries? Sounds incredible right? Not quite impossible, says Dr. Susan Roberts from Tufts University, who along with her team of researchers, has recently, shown that you...

Here comes the sun, little darling!

November 30, -0001 • 12:00 AM

Ever heard of the "sick building syndrome"? Yes, you heard it right! What happens in this syndrome is that the building occupants experience increasing discomfort depending on how long they spend inside the building. Sick building syndrome (SHO), a term coined by the World Health Organization, was on the rise in 1970s. This led to not only growing media attention but it also captured the fancy of scientists. The current paper led by Dr. Boubekri from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is...

Nature versus nurture: What matters in infant brain development?

November 30, -0001 • 12:00 AM

Washington Irving wisely remarked, "A mother's love endures through all". True to this adage, new discovery by scientists at Langone School of Medicine, Emotional Brain Institute and Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research based in New York led by senior investigator Dr. Regina Sullivan shows a critical role of mother's presence and grooming in key stages of infant brain development! Our brain is comprised of several cell circuits similar to an electrical circuit. Just like an...

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