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Scientists decode how the brain hears wordsWashington (AFP) Feb 1, 2012 US scientists said Wednesday they have found a way to decode how the brain hears words, in what researchers described as a major step toward one day helping people communicate after paralysis or stroke. By placing electrodes on the brains of research subjects and then having them listen to conversations, scientists were able to analyze the sound frequencies registered and figure out which words they were hearing. "We were focused on how the brain processes the sounds of speech," researcher Brian ... read more |
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 NASA's GCPEX Mission: What We Don't Know about Snow Ukraine's cold snap claims over 100 lives: ministry Correlation between summer Arctic sea ice cover and winter weather in Central Europe India's air the worst, says study Homeless go underground to survive deep freeze Livestock, not Mongolian gazelles, drive foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks Floods create 'inland sea' in Australia Temperate Freshwater Wetlands Are 'Forgotten' Carbon Sinks Deep freeze hits Poland's hardy lake swimmers Colosseum closes as snow blankets Rome New technology allows scientists to watch cancer cells in action at unprecedented resolution UN says 30,000 fled recent Sudan fighting Voyage to the most isolated base on Earth Africa land grabs 'could cause conflicts' | .. |
 Following the first steps out of Africa The timing and pattern of the migration of early modern humans has been a source of much debate and research. Now, a new study uses genetic analysis to look for clues about the migration of the firs ... more | .. |
 Japan's population to shrink two thirds by 2110 Japan's population is expected to shrink to a third of its current size over the next century, with the average woman living to over 90 within 50 years, a government report said Monday. ... more | .. |
 Arabia saw first humans out of Africa European researchers say genetic studies suggest the first humans leaving the Horn of African to the rest of the world first settled in Arabia. ... more | .. |
 The price of your soul: How the brain decides whether to 'sell out' An Emory University neuro-imaging study shows that personal values that people refuse to disavow, even when offered cash to do so, are processed differently in the brain than those values that are w ... more |
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 Penn Researchers Help Solve Questions About Ethiopians' High-Altitude Adaptations Over many generations, people living in the high-altitude regions of the Andes or on the Tibetan Plateau have adapted to life in low-oxygen conditions. Living with such a distinct and powerful selec ... more | .. |
 Babies with three parents a possibility Babies with three biological parents could be born with an in vitro fertilization technique meant to eliminate hereditary diseases, British researchers say. ... more | .. |
Sitting pretty: bum's the word in Japan security Put your fingerprint scanners away. Stand aside iris measurers. Buttocks are the new way to prove who you are. ... more | .. |
 Canada urged to conceal fetal sex over abortion fears An editorial in a major Canadian medical journal Monday urges doctors to conceal the gender of a fetus from all pregnant women until 30 weeks to prevent sex-selective abortion by Asian immigrants. ... more |
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 How the brain computes 3-dimensional structure The incredible ability of our brain to create a three-dimensional (3D) representation from an object's two-dimensional projection on the retina is something that we may take for granted, but the pro ... more | .. |
 We May Be Less Happy, But Our Language Isn't "If it bleeds, it leads," goes the cynical saying with television and newspaper editors. In other words, most news is bad news and the worst news gets the big story on the front page. So one m ... more | .. |
 Evolution is written all over your face Why are the faces of primates so dramatically different from one another? UCLA biologists working as "evolutionary detectives" studied the faces of 129 adult male primates from Central and South Ame ... more | .. |
Fusion plasma research helps neurologists to hear above the noise Fusion plasma researchers at the University of Warwick have teamed up with Cambridge neuroscientists to apply their expertise developed to study inaccessible fusion plasmas in order to significantly ... more |
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Outrage over Indian islands 'human zoo' video Rights campaigners and politicians Wednesday condemned a video showing women from a protected and primitive tribe dancing for tourists reportedly in exchange for food on India's Andaman Islands. ... more | .. |
 To Speed People Up, Human Leg Muscle Slows Down Other than Olympic race walkers, people generally find it more comfortable to run than walk when they start moving at around 2 meters per second - about 4.5 miles per hour. North Carolina Stat ... more | .. |
 Brain's Connective Cells Are Much More Than Glue Glia cells, named for the Greek word for "glue," hold the brain's neurons together and protect the cells that determine our thoughts and behaviors, but scientists have long puzzled over their promin ... more | .. |
Commentary: Youth bulge With more than 50 percent of the world's population under age 30, humanity is getting younger and less experienced. E-mail is already passe. Some universities have stopped distributing e-mail accounts. The social gamers have taken center stage. ... more |
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 New super-Earth detected within the habitable zone of a nearby star Capsule failure delays ISS crew mission U.K. study: Mars surface too dry for life Armadillo rocket flys high New Horizons Aims to Put Its Stamp on History NASA Receives Final NRC Report On Space Technology Roadmaps Scientists help define structure of exoplanets Russia to Start Own Search for Extrasolar Planets Eight more Galileo navsats agreed Space Radiation Blamed for Phobos-Grunt Crash Final Call to Register and Win Suborbital Research Flight Radio Doppler Tracking Continues at Cape York A dark spot on Mars - Syrtis Major Russia May Repeat Mars-500 Simulation on Space Station | .. |
 Spectacular fireworks ring in New Year The world rang in the New Year on Saturday with a string of spectacular firework displays watched by millions to mark the beginning of 2012. ... more | .. |
 How to break Murphy's Law And Live To Tell The Tale Murphy's Law is a useful scapegoat for human error: "If something can go wrong, it will." But, a new study by researchers in Canada hopes to put paid to this unscientific excuse for errors by showin ... more | .. |
 Human skull study causes evolutionary headache Scientists studying a unique collection of human skulls have shown that changes to the skull shape thought to have occurred independently through separate evolutionary events may have actually preci ... more | .. |
 Malaysian 'lords of the jungle' cling to ancient ways As their wooden boat nears the river's edge, hunters from Malaysia's Kayan tribe reach for machetes and spears while their dogs leap out and splash up the banks on the scent of a deer. ... more |
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 I wanna talk like you The role of social structure in animal communication is hotly debated. Non-human primates seem to be born with a range of calls and sounds which is dependent upon their species. But overlying this t ... more | .. |
 Mind reading machines on their way: IBM Century-old technology colossus IBM on Monday depicted a near future in which machines read minds and recognize who they are dealing with. ... more | .. |
 Up to 200 feared drowned in asylum tragedy Strong winds and high seas hampered rescuers off Java where the season for survivors from an asylum boat that overturned in bad weather continued. ... more | .. |
 Follow your nose Differences in the temporal lobes and olfactory bulbs also suggest a combined use of brain functions related to cognition and olfaction. The increase of brain size is intimately linked to the evolut ... more |
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