A paper published in the latest online issue of the peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE shows that exposure to background noises makes it very difficult for people suffering from dyslexia to read.
At least part of the condition is caused by the fact that individuals who have it are always exposed to at least some outside... |
28 November 2011
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Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) recently made a proposition that shocked the international scientific community, and that is likely to cause controversy even among evolutionary biologists and paleontologists. They say that autism may have actually bee a good thing at times. The investigatio... |
26 September 2011
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A recent study conducted on the human brain revealed that empathy is not produced in a single area of the brain. Rather, multiple areas interact in intricate patterns in order to underly this human ability. Empathy is what allows us to put ourselves in another person's shoes, to relate to what they are feeling, ... |
18 July 2011
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SFC Energy, Inc., the US affiliate of SFC Energy AG, has just been awarded a non-exclusive license to develop a new type of technology, which was put together by experts at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles (USC).
The new technology is called Direct M... |
28 May 2011
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Reproducing the functions of neurons is impossible without the creation of inter-neural links called synapses. Recently, experts in the United States announced the creation of the first artificial synapses, in an advancement that could lead to the development of the first synthetic brain. In order to obtain the artif... |
22 April 2011
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Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are currently working on a new treatment for the human eye, which could potentially restore sight in patients whose blindness was caused by the degenerative condition called retinitis pigmentosa.
There are currently more than 1 million people who are b... |
21 April 2011
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Apparently, being the biggest thing on the Internet besides pornography brings about an aura of distrust similar to the one every government has around it. Google, because the Mountain View based company is what I'm talking about, of course, came to find this out firsthand, according to a study carried on Intern... |
18 January 2008
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