A new study takes another step toward the early understanding of a degenerative brain condition called chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, which affects athletes in contact sports who are exposed …read more Source:: Science
Day: April 6, 2015
Computers that mimic the function of the brain
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•A team researchers used a promising new material to build more functional memristors, bringing us closer to brain-like computing. Both academic and industrial laboratories are working to develop computers that …read more Source:: Science
Facebook use linked to depressive symptoms
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•The social media site, Facebook, can be an effective tool for connecting with new and old friends. However, some users may find themselves spending quite a bit of time viewing …read more Source:: Science
CoreOS is bringing Google’s Kubernetes to the enterprise
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•Thanks to CoreOS, Kubernetes, Google’s secret sauce for managing containers on its clusters, is on its way to your data center. …read more Source:: Linux
The brain game: How decreased neural activity may help you learn faster
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•Why are some people able to master a new skill quickly while others require extra time or practice? Counterintuitive as it may seem, study participants who showed decreased neural activity …read more Source:: Science
Restart of the Large Hadron Collider
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•Yesterday, the world’s most powerful particle accelerator began its second act. After two years of upgrades and repairs, proton beams once again circulated around the Large Hadron Collider, located at …read more Source:: Science
New treatment for dementia discovered: Deep brain stimulation
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•New brain cells can be formed through deep brain stimulation, improving memory retention, researchers report. For decades, scientists have been finding ways to generate brain cells to boost memory and …read more Source:: Science
The new struggles facing open source
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•By Matt Asay The early days of open source were fraught with religious animosities we feared would tear apart the movement: free software fundamentalists haggling with open source pragmatists over how many Apache …read more Source:: OpenSource
CERN restarts Large Hadron Collider, seeks dark universe
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•GENEVA (Reuters) – Scientists at Europe’s physics research center CERN on Sunday restarted their “Big Bang” Large Hadron Collider (LHC), embarking on a bid to probe into the “dark universe” …read more Source:: UKScienceNews