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Forwarding the quest for quantum computing
Thursday, 23 May 2013
Research teams from UW-Milwaukee and the University of York investigating the properties of ultra-thin films of new materials are helping bring quantum computing one step closer to reality. An on-...
Clues to possible life on Mars
Thursday, 23 May 2013
The temperature in the permafrost on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian high Arctic is nearly as cold as that of the surface of Mars. So the recent discovery by a McGill University led team of...
The secret lives, and deaths, of neurons
Thursday, 23 May 2013
As the human body fine-tunes its neurological wiring, nerve cells often must fix a faulty connection by amputating an axon — the "business end" of the neuron that sends electrical impulses to tissues...
Huntington's disease breakthrough
Thursday, 23 May 2013
Researchers at Lund University have succeeded in preventing very early symptoms of Huntington's disease, depression and anxiety, by deactivating the mutated huntingtin protein in the brains of mice...
This Oklahoma atheist isn't thanking the Lord
Thursday, 23 May 2013
Rebecca Vitsum told CNN anchor she was atheist during live interview. Behind her were ruins, a tangled mess where structures once stood. Cradled in her arms, the mother's 19-month-old son played...
Where scene context happens in our brain
Thursday, 23 May 2013
In a remote fishing community in Venezuela, a lone fisherman sits on a cliff overlooking the southern Caribbean Sea. This man—the lookout—is responsible for directing his comrades on the water, who...
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Highlights

Is Crazyism obvious?
"Crazyism" about the metaphysics of mind, as I define it, is the view that something bizarre and undeserving of credence must be among the core truths about the mind. In my central article on the...
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Quote of the Day

"I no longer can tell when I am working and when I am playing online."


~ KEVIN KELLY


Fact of the day

In a paper appearing in the August 9, 2012 issue of Nature, MIT neuroscientists report that two major classes of brain cells repress neural activity in specific mathematical ways: One type subtracts from overall activation, while the other divides it.

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