Deep Brain Stimulation Studies Show How Brain Buys Time for Tough Choices

Deep Brain Stimulation Studies Show How Brain Buys Time for Tough Choices

  8:22:00 PM    Science Lover

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Take your time. Hold your horses. Sleep on it. When people must decide between arguably equal choices, they need time to deliberate. In the case of people undergoing deep brain stimulation (DBS) for Parkinson's disease, that process sometimes doesn't kick in, leading to...

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From Your Heart to Your iPhone

From Your Heart to Your iPhone

  10:11:00 AM    Science Lover

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A new app gets data from an implanted device and can share it with the patient, doctors, and family. A smart-phone app under development for heart-failure patients allows them to keep track of the pressure inside their heart as measured by an implanted sensor. That data...

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Scientists discover an organizing principle for our sense of smell

Scientists discover an organizing principle for our sense of smell

  12:13:00 AM    Science Lover

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The fact that certain smells cause us pleasure or disgust would seem to be a matter of personal taste. But new research at the Weizmann Institute shows that odors can be rated on a scale of pleasantness, and this turns out to be an organizing principle for the way we experience...

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Bio-inspired coating resists liquids

Bio-inspired coating resists liquids

  1:59:00 PM    Science Lover

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After a rain, the cupped leaf of a pitcher plant becomes a virtually frictionless surface. Sweet-smelling and elegant, the carnivore attracts ants, spiders, and even little frogs. One by one, they slide to their doom. This is an illustration showing a schematic of slippery...

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Roll over Einstein: Law of physics challenged

Roll over Einstein: Law of physics challenged

  12:58:00 PM    Science Lover

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One of the very pillars of physics and Einstein's theory of relativity - that nothing can go faster than the speed of light - was rocked Thursday by new findings from one of the world's foremost laboratories. This undated file photo shows famed physicist Albert Einstein....

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Taking Touch beyond the Touch Screen A prototype tablet can sense gestures, and objects placed next to it.

Taking Touch beyond the Touch Screen A prototype tablet can sense gestures, and objects placed next to it.

  10:05:00 AM    Science Lover

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A tablet computer developed collaboratively by researchers at Intel, Microsoft, and the University of Washington can be controlled not only by swiping and pinching at the screen, but by touching any surface on which it is placed. In touch: The spacecraft on this tablet's screen...

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All-access genome: New study explores packaging of DNA

All-access genome: New study explores packaging of DNA

  9:32:00 PM    Science Lover

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While efforts to unlock the subtleties of DNA have produced remarkable insights into the code of life, researchers still grapple with fundamental questions. For example, the underlying mechanisms by which human genes are turned on and off -- generating essential proteins,...

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Microwave Ovens a Key to Energy Production from Wasted Heat

Microwave Ovens a Key to Energy Production from Wasted Heat

  12:35:00 AM    Science Lover

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More than 60 percent of the energy produced by cars, machines, and industry around the world is lost as waste heat -- an age-old problem -- but researchers have found a new way to make "thermoelectric" materials for use in technology that could potentially save vast amounts...

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Scientists successfully expand bone marrow-derived stem cells in culture

Scientists successfully expand bone marrow-derived stem cells in culture

  8:13:00 PM    Science Lover

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All stem cells-regardless of their source-share the remarkable capability to replenish themselves by undergoing self-renewal. Yet, so far, efforts to grow and expand scarce hematopoietic (or blood-forming) stem cells in culture for therapeutic applications have been met...

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Printing off the paper: Pushing the boundaries of the burgeoning technology of 3-D printing

Printing off the paper: Pushing the boundaries of the burgeoning technology of 3-D printing

  11:56:00 PM    Science Lover

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Imagine being able to "print" an entire house. Or a four-course dinner. Or a complete mechanical device such as a cuckoo clock, fully assembled and ready to run. Or a printer capable of printing ... yet another printer? One of the 3-D printers at work in the Mediated Matter group...

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Have We Met Before? Direct Connections Found Between Areas of Brain Responsible for Voice and Face Recognition

Have We Met Before? Direct Connections Found Between Areas of Brain Responsible for Voice and Face Recognition

  12:11:00 AM    Science Lover

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Face and voice are the two main features by which we recognise other people. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences have now discovered that there is a direct structural connection consisting of fibre pathways between voice-...

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