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InteraXon looking for crowdfunding for Muse, a brainwave-sensor headband (w/ Video) - 0 views
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Muse is a headband device based on electroencephalography (EEG) sensor technology combined with a sophisticated smartphone app that allows the wearer's brainwaves to be monitored.
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sensors
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U.S. FDA Approves Possible Alzheimer's Test - ScienceInsider - 0 views
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the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a radioactive compound for evaluating people with cognitive impairment for Alzheimer's disease
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Amyvid, binds to amyloid plaques, the calling card of Alzheimer's disease in the brain
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before a PET scan, Amyvid allows doctors to see whether amyloid has begun to build up
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Brain's Drain: Neuroscientists Discover Cranial Cleansing System: Scientific American - 0 views
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researchers christened the network the "glymphatic" system,
Australians implant 'world first' bionic eye - 0 views
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Bionic Vision Australia (BVA), a government-funded science consortium, said it had surgically installed an "early prototype" robotic eye in a woman with hereditary sight loss caused by degenerative retinitis pigmentosa
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pre-bionic eye", the tiny device is attached to Dianne Ashworth's retina and contains 24 electrodes which send electrical impulses to stimulate her eye's nerve cells.
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device only works when it is connected inside the lab
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Researches find poop-throwing by chimps is a sign of intelligence - 0 views
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researchers studying such behavior have come to the conclusion that throwing feces, or any object really, is actually a sign of high ordered behavior
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they are the only other species besides humans that regularly throw things with a clear target in mind
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watching chimps in action for several years and comparing their actions with scans of their brains to see if there were any correlations between those chimps that threw a lot
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Do Dolphins Speak Whale in Their Sleep? - ScienceNOW - 2 views
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Researchers discovered the dolphins' midnight melodies by accident
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Every day, as music and sounds of the sea play in the background, they show off their swimming, jumping, and ball-catching skills for an adoring audience and squawk and whistle just like dolphins should
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But at night, they make strange noises that researchers believe are imitations of humpback whale songs included in the performance soundtrack
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Write to Me Only With Thine Eyes - ScienceNOW - 0 views
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People "locked in" by paralyzing disorders
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have long relied on blinks or facial twitches to build sentences one letter at a time
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Over three 30-minute sessions, he trained six volunteers
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Eye implants make vision-restoring progress - 0 views
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Second Sight’s Argus II, a retinal prosthesis already on the market in Europe
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Bio-Retina from NanoRetina, which is to start clinical trials next year
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Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System was developed to provide electrical stimulation of the retina to induce visual perception
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Computer Game-Playing Shown to Improve Multitasking Skills: Scientific American - 0 views
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a study published this week in Nature
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convincingly shows that if a game is tailored to a precise cognitive deficit, in this case multitasking in older people, it can indeed be effective
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the study found that a game called NeuroRacer can help older people to improve their capacity to multitask
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March 29 - Today in Science History - Scientists born on March 29th, died, and events - 0 views
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Coca-Cola
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In 1886, the first batch of Coca Cola was brewed over a fire in a backyard in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. John Pemberton had created the concoction as a cure for "hangover," stomach ache and headache. He advertised it as a "brain tonic and intellectual beverage," and first sold it to the public a few weeks later on 8 May. Coke contained cocaine as an ingredient until 1904, when the drug was banned by Congress.
This Insect Has The Only Mechanical Gears Ever Found in Nature | Surprising Science - 0 views
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To the best of our knowledge, the mechanical gear
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evenly-sized teeth cut into two different rotating surfaces to lock them together as they turn
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was invented sometime around 300 B.C.E. by Greek mechanics who lived in Alexandria
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Dextrose rub helps newborns with low blood sugar | Body & Brain | Science News - 0 views
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Newborns with low blood sugar face the prospect of a trip to the intensive care unit and intravenous infusions of glucose
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rubbing a sweet gel onto the insides of babies’ cheeks
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Low blood sugar in newborns, or neonatal hypoglycemia, occurs when the tiny body needs more glucose to meet energy needs than is available in the bloodstream
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Breakthrough therapy allows four paraplegic men to voluntarily move their legs - 0 views
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Four young men who have been paralyzed for years achieved
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moving their legs—as a result of epidural electrical stimulation of the spinal cord
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All four participants were classified as suffering from chronic, motor complete spinal cord injuries and were unable to move their lower extremities prior to the implantation of an epidural stimulator
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About EyeWire, A Game to Map the Brain - 0 views
EyeWire gamers help researchers understand retina's motion detection wiring - 0 views
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A team of researchers working at MIT has used data supplied by gamers on EyeWire to help explain how it is that the retina is able to process motion detection
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the team describes how they worked with gamers at EyeWire and then used the resulting mapped neural networks to propose a new theory to describe how it is the eye is able to understand what happens when something moves in front of it.
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Scientists have known for quite some time that light enters the eye and strikes the back of the eyeball where photoreceptors respond
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'Scarecrow' Rover Goes Off-Roading in Dumont Dunes - Mars Science Laboratory - 0 views
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Curiosity’s Stunt Double
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Scarecrow has a full-size version of Curiosity's wheels and other driving equipment, but doesn't have the "brains."
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Engineers use it to test drive on different types of terrain
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