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| A Drug That Could Give You Perfect Visual Memory
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| posted on Friday, July 03, 2009
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Imagine if you could look at something once and remember it forever. You would never have to ask for directions again. Now a group of scientists has isolated a protein that mega-boosts your ability to remember what you see.
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| Our Brains On Music (Watch NOVA Special Online)
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| posted on Friday, July 03, 2009
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“Musical Minds,” the season premiere of “Nova” on PBS, is based on the neurologist Oliver Sacks’s most recent book, “Musicophilia," a collection of case studies of people whose brains have unusual relationships to music, cases in which, as Dr. Sacks puts it, “music gets them going to an extraordinary degree.”
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| Sea Level Rise: It's Worse Than We Thought
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| posted on Friday, July 03, 2009
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Even if all emissions stopped today, sea level would continue to rise. "The current rate of rise would continue for centuries if temperatures are constant, and that would add about 30 centimetres per century to global sea level," says Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany. "If we burn all fossil fuels, we are likely to end up with many metres of sea level rise in the long run, very likely more than 10 metres [32 feet] in my view."
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| Scientists Seek To Mimic Healing Powers Of Salamanders In Humans
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| posted on Friday, July 03, 2009
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The salamander is a superhero of regeneration, able to replace lost limbs, damaged lungs, sliced spinal cord -- even bits of lopped-off brain. But it turns out that remarkable ability isn't so mysterious after all -- suggesting that researchers could learn how to replicate it in people.
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| When Our Brains Short-Circuit
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| posted on Friday, July 03, 2009
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Evidence is accumulating that the human brain systematically misjudges certain kinds of risks. In effect, evolution has programmed us to be alert for snakes and enemies with clubs, but we aren’t well prepared to respond to dangers that require forethought.
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