Processing Faces
Researchers in Europe have identified a new brain map they call the “faciotopy,” where facial characteristics such as noses, eyes, and mouths are mapped onto a region in the occipital face area, a...
View ArticleWrapping Up With Peace, Innovation and a Glance Into the Future
Davos Diary: Saturday 23 January Davos is wrapping up today on issues of peace and security. As we enter the Fourth Industrial Revolution and with technological innovation moving at high speed, we are...
View ArticleGenetics and Environment Impact Familial Depression (Children's Hospital Los...
(Source: Children's Hospital Los Angeles) Building on a 30-year, three-generation study of depressed individuals, their children and offspring, a study published in the journal Psychiatry Research:...
View ArticleCompac's New Optical Sorting Platform Delivers Leap Forward in Efficiency and...
AUCKLAND, New Zealand, Jan. 20, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Compac, a world leader in post-harvest integrated solutions and services to the fresh produce industry, announced the successful operational...
View ArticleHere come the robots: Davos bosses brace for big technology shocks on cusp of...
Implantable mobile phones. 3D-printed organs for transplant. Clothes and reading-glasses connected to the internet. Such things may be science fiction today but they will be scientific fact by 2025 as...
View ArticleUsing artificial intelligence and evolution to take gaming to the next level...
(Source: Michigan State University) You have a new video game and have spent weeks trying to defend yourself against your arch enemy. You finally found his weakness and how to stop him, and are...
View Article2015 Temperatures Shatter Records for Warmest Year Recorded
Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, USA FacebookTwitter Earth’s 2015 surface temperatures were the warmest since modern record keeping began in 1880, according to independent analyses by NASA and the...
View ArticleOpinion: Scientists find way to predict who is likely to wake up during...
(Source: University of Cambridge) Measuring certain kinds of brain activity may help doctors track and predict how patients will react to anaesthesia before going under for surgery, our research has...
View ArticleBrain Surgeon Dr. Rahul Jandial Wants to Knock Cancer to its Knees
Brain Surgeon and Scientist Dr. Rahul Jandial appears alongside Mike Tyson, Kal Penn and Mary Lynn Rajskub in FOX's show Superhuman where contestants claiming superhuman abilities are tested. Dr. Rahul...
View ArticleGenomeSpace “Recipes” Help Biologists Interpret Genomic Data (UCSD -...
(Source: UCSD - University of California - San Diego) Many biomedical researchers are striving to make sense of the flood of data that has followed recent advances in genomic sequencing technologies....
View ArticleStephen Hawking Says Our Technology Might Wipe Us Out
If you're thinking of having yourself cryogenically suspended and awakened in some future paradise, you might want to set your alarm clock for no later than 1,000 years from now. According to the BBC,...
View ArticleStudy Explains Why Mistakes Slow Us Down, But Not Necessarily for the Better...
(Source: NYU - New York University) Taking more time to make decisions after a mistake arises from a mixture of adaptive neural mechanisms that improve the accuracy and maladaptive mechanisms that...
View ArticleNext 100 Years May Spell Doom For Humanity
World famous theoretical physicist and Cambridge University professor Stephen Hawking has a history of speaking out about his fears for the future of humanity. For years, Stephen Hawking has been...
View ArticleWorld urged to stop killer robots at Davos
The world must act quickly to avert a future in which autonomous robots with artificial intelligence roam the battlefields killing humans, scientists and arms experts warned at an elite gathering in...
View ArticleDr. Bradley Ringeisen Honored as Defense Department's 'Laboratory Scientist...
(Source: US Naval Research Laboratory) Dr. Bradley Ringeisen, head of the Bioenergy and Biofabrication Section at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), is awarded the prestigious Laboratory...
View ArticleNeuroscientists open doors to collaboration (The University of Chicago)
(Source: The University of Chicago) In the Biopsychological Research Building basement, Prof. Ed Vogel swings open a metal door, revealing a metal-lined, closet-sized compartment. Vogel and fellow...
View ArticleTransforming Manufacturing Industries with the Right Industrial IoT Approach
The Internet of Things is slowly building up its core capabilities to start solving problems that can really benefit from it. Let's talk about the manufacturing vertical and why the Internet of Things...
View ArticleA Key Challenge of the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Staying Human – and...
(Source: World Economic Forum) Fon Mathuros, Head of Media, Public Engagement, Tel.: +41 (0)79 201 0211; Email: fmathuro@weforum.org · Rapid technological advances, including the proliferation of...
View ArticleRobert Kelley: a research legacy (North Dakota University System)
(Source: North Dakota University System) by Juan Miguel Pedraza, University & Public Affairs writer UND President Robert Kelley interacts with students in Biology Professor Susan Felege's lab....
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