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"The ritual mind Legare presented Brazilians with a variety of simpatias, and found that people judged them as more effective when they involved a large number of repetitive procedural steps that must be performed at a specific time and in the presence of religious icons. "We're built to learn from others," she says, which leads us to repeat actions that seemed to work for someone else - "even if we don't understand how they produce the desired outcomes"."

Ines Wilhelm (Universität Tübingen) et al.Nature Neuroscience, doi: 10.1038/nn.3343 " Jetzt zeigt sich, dass das kindliche Gehirn während der Nachtruhe vor allem einen wichtigen Lernschritt absolviert: Den Übergang von unbewusst Aufgenommenem zu explizit verstandenem, abrufbarem Wissen. Wie deutsche Forscher herausfanden, ist der besonders tiefe Schlaf der Kinder sogar für diesen Umwandlungsschritt optimiert - sie profitieren deshalb mehr von einem Überschlafen neuer Fertigkeiten als"

The Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) was set up in 1995 in recognition of the need for the Open University to be at the forefront of research and development in a convergence of areas that impacted on the OU's very nature: Cognitive and Learning Sciences, Artificial Intelligence and Semantic Technologies, and Multimedia. We chose to call this convergence Knowledge Media. 

"Genspace betreibt seit 2010 in Brooklyn ein Labor, das allen Bürgern offen steht, die sich für Molekularbiologie und moderne Biotechnologie interessieren, oder vielleicht auch nur Lust haben, einmal mit Pilzkulturen und Petrischalen zu hantieren. Besondere Erfahrungen und Vorkenntnisse muss niemand mitbringen, nur die Gebühr für den jeweiligen Kurs. Da können dann zum Beispiel Schüler in der Freizeit Mikroorganismen in Petrischalen züchten, oder der Rentner von nebenan lernt im Crashkurs, Genproben zu analysieren. „Es gibt nichts Besseres, als selbst etwas auszuprobieren, wenn man jemand für Wissenschaft begeistern will"

"Ich eröffnete meinen Vortrag mit der Ankündigung, dass ich ihnen zur „Evolution der Religion" die Überlegungen eines Theologen vorstellen würde. Skepsis und Entsetzen machte sich auf den Gesichtern breit; die meisten Biologinnen und Biologen haben von Religionsgelehrten selten Gutes gehört. Doch dann ließ ich hinter mir das Bild des Gelehrten aufscheinen - und die Zurückhaltung, die im Raum quasi physisch zu spüren war, ging in Überraschung und schließlich Gelächter über. Denn hinter und über mir schaute niemand Geringeres in den Saal als der Begründer der Evolutionsbiologie selbst: Charles Darwin! Ja, es ist wahr. In den meisten Kurzbiografien wird Charles Darwin als „Naturforscher" vorgestellt. Und bis heute treffe ich auf großes Erstaunen, wenn ich darauf aufmerksam mache, dass der bedeutendste Wissenschaftler des 19. Jahrhunderts einen einzigen Studienabschluss erworben hatte - den eines Bachelors in christlich-anglikanischer Theologie! Darwin schnitt als zehntbester seines Jahrgangs in Cambridge ab und wäre beinahe Landpfarrer geworden"

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'The Named Data Networking (NDN) project aims to develop a new Internet architecture that can capitalize on strengths - and address weaknesses - of the Internet's current host-based, point-to-point communication architecture in order to naturally accommodate emerging patterns of communication. By naming data instead of their locations, NDN transforms data into a first-class entity. The current Internet secures the data container. NDN secures the contents, a design choice that decouples trust in data from trust in hosts, enabling several radically scalable communication mechanisms such as automatic caching to optimize bandwidth.'

UBY is a large-scale lexical-semantic resource for natural language processing (NLP) based on the ISO standard Lexical Markup Framework (LMF). UBY combines a wide range of information from expert-constructed and collaboratively constructed resources for English and German. Currently, UBY holds structurally and semantically interoperable versions of nine resources in two languages:  English WordNet, Wiktionary, Wikipedia, FrameNet and VerbNet,  German Wikipedia, Wiktionary and GermaNet, and multilingual OmegaWiki. 

"There is a biological story with information. I have been repeating that in a natural environment, a stressor is information. So too much information would be too much stress, exceeding the threshold of antifragility. In medicine, we are discovering the healing powers of fasting, as the avoidance of too much hormonal rushes that come with the ingestion of food. Hormones convey information to the different parts of our system and too much of it confuses our biology. Here again, as with the story of the news received at too high a frequency, too much information becomes harmful. And in Chapter x (on ethics) I will show how too much data (particularly when sterile) causes statistics to be completely meaningless. Now let's add the psychological to this: we are not made to understand the point, so we overreact emotionally to noise. The best solution is to only look at very large changes in data or conditions, never small ones"

"The project was kick-started by a huge public response to the team's research into the genetics of gut bacteria. In a previous study the researchers found that certain gut-specific genetic markers were related to obesity and other diseases. "I got between 50 and 100 e-mails from regular people having problems with the stomach or diarrhoea and wondering if we can help them," Peer Bork, a biochemist and co-creator of MyMicrobes, told Nature. This new website will build on that work, whilst also providing support for concerned members of the public."

900 years of international history from one source. Gale Digital Collections has changed the nature of research forever by providing a wealth of rare, formerly inaccessible historical content from the world's most prestigious libraries.

"Dr Zbinden said that while the discovery of the bacterium is no cause for alarm, it is important that it is recognised and the risk is quantified. "This bacterium seems to have a natural potential to cause severe disease and so it's important that clinicians and microbiologists are aware of it"

"Charles Vacanti, Mit-Entdecker einer unglaublich simplen Methode zur Produktion von pluripotenten Stammzellen, ist in der Szene kein Unbekannter. Kollegen hatten seine Arbeiten oft verlacht und ignoriert. Jetzt ist alles anders. Denn diesmal hat er in Nature publiziert. "

"Cellendes continously expands the 3-D Life product line to provide an innovative and increasingly comprehensive technology for a broad range of applications in 3-D cell culture. Cellendes seeks collaborations with academic and industrial partners to explore and develop the use of the 3-D Life technology in complex cell-based assays and tissue models for drug screening as well as in biomedical engineering. Cellendes was founded in 2009 by Dr. Brigitte Angres and Dr. Helmut Wurst. Cellendes is a spinoff company of the NMI Natural and Medical Sciences Institute at the University of Tübingen."

"Faulheit und Fast Food sind nicht die einzigen Ursachen für Übergewicht, da sind sich Mediziner heute sicher. So simpel ist unser Stoffwechsel nicht gestrickt. Wie viel Fett wir ansetzen, entscheiden unzählige Faktoren, die zum Teil noch gar nicht genau erforscht sind. Die Verdauung zum Beispiel. Eine Studie des Biomediziners Oluf Pedersen von der Universität Kopenhagen zeigt nun, dass Übergewicht eng mit der Darmflora verknüpft ist: Menschen, deren Darm von zahlreichen unterschiedlichen Bakterienstämmen besiedelt ist, haben ein geringeres Risiko, dick zu werden, schreiben Pedersen und sein Team im Magazin Nature. "

"Wie Brocks und ihre Kollegen von der Washington University nun in „Nature Communications" zeigen, haben sich die Dictyostelium-Bauern Aufpasser zugelegt. Zusätzlich zu ihren Vorräten tragen sie auch nicht essbare Bakterien mit sich herum, deren Erbgut teilweise dem menschlicher Krankheitserreger ähnelt. Diese Symbionten geben Substanzen ab, die schmarotzende Artgenossen vergiften. Dem Effekt kamen die Forscher auf die Spur, als sie im Labor Farmer und Faulpelze zu unterschiedlichen Anteilen mischten. Je stärker die Farmer in der Überzahl waren, desto weniger Sporen produzierten die verbliebenen Faulpelze. Auf die Sporenproduktion der Farmer hatte das Mischungsverhältnis hingegen keinerlei Auswirkungen."

"Gears are ubiquitous in the man-made world, found in items ranging from wristwatches to car engines, but it seems that nature invented them first. A species of plant-hopping insect, Issus coleoptratus, is the first living creature known to possess functional gears, a new study finds. The two interlocking gears on the insect's hind legs help synchronize the legs when the animal jumps."

In our Universe, a black hole is bounded by a spherical surface called an event horizon. Whereas in ordinary three-dimensional space it takes a two-dimensional object (a surface) to create a boundary inside a black hole, in the bulk universe the event horizon of a 4D black hole would be a 3D object - a shape called a hypersphere. When Afshordi's team modelled the death of a 4D star, they found that the ejected material would form a 3D brane surrounding that 3D event horizon, and slowly expand. The authors postulate that the 3D Universe we live in might be just such a brane - and that we detect the brane's growth as cosmic expansion. "Astronomers measured that expansion and extrapolated back that the Universe must have begun with a Big Bang - but that is just a mirage," says Afshordi.

"Researchers say they want to emphasize, however, that the HPV vaccine commonly used by millions of women around the world is perfectly safe if done prior to infection with the virus. The concerns raised by this study relate only to viral therapies or possible use of a therapeutic vaccine after the virus has already been integrated into human cells. "It's been known for decades that only women with prior infection with HPV get cervical cancer," said Andrey Morgun, an assistant professor and a leader of the study in the OSU College of Pharmacy. "In about 90 percent of cases it's naturally eliminated, often without any symptoms. But in a small fraction of cases it can eventually lead to cancer, in ways that have not been fully understood.""