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Visteon cockpit concept learns the driver's HABIT
Saturday, 18 May 2013
System understands driver's personal preferences to deliver a more meaningful experience behind the wheel. Would you like your vehicle to suggest a different route to or from work when there are...
Why does old schizophrenia medicine work on antibiotics-resistant bacteria?
Saturday, 18 May 2013
Why does old schizophrenia medicine work on antibiotics-resistant bacteria? In 2008, researchers from the University of Southern Denmark showed that the drug thioridazine, which has previously been...
New colonoscope provides ground-breaking view of colon
Saturday, 18 May 2013
A ground-breaking advance in colonoscopy technology signals the future of colorectal care, according to research presented today at Digestive Disease Week® (DDW). Additional research focuses on...
Super-bright explosion seen on the moon
Friday, 17 May 2013
If you were looking up at the Moon on March 17, 2013 at 03:50:55 UTC, you might have seen one of the brightest “lunar flashes” ever witnessed. And it would have been visible with just the naked eye...
Brain rewires itself after damage
Friday, 17 May 2013
When the brain's primary "learning center" is damaged, complex new neural circuits arise to compensate for the lost function, say life scientists from UCLA and Australia who have pinpointed the...
Electrical boost to mental arithmetic powers
Friday, 17 May 2013
A weak electrical signal can boost people's powers of mental arithmetic over a period of months, suggests a small scale study at the University of Oxford. The technique involves placing electrodes...
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Leaving the Hassidic community
Ultra-orthodox Jewish communities known as the Hassidim create a cocoon to protect their people from the influences of the outside world. At least when it comes to other groups that seek to separate...
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Quote of the Day

"Do not pray in my school, and I will not think in your church."


~ UNKNOWN


Fact of the day

Sperm whales sleep with one side of their brain at a time, alternating until both sides are rested.

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