By Matt Asay Why would you ever write a new database? Particularly an in-memory database, which, back in 2009, made zero sense to the ruling database class of the time. Salvatore Sanfilippo didn’t …read more Source:: OpenSource
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Scientists find brain center that ‘profoundly’ shuts down pain
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•A research team has found a small area of the brain in mice that can profoundly control the animals’ sense of pain. Somewhat unexpectedly, this brain center turns pain off, …read more Source:: Science
Bumble bees can experience an object using one sense and later recognize it using another
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•The ability to recognize objects across different senses is present in the tiny brains of an insect, researchers have discovered. …read more Source:: Science
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2019: How cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability
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•The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is being awarded jointly to William G. Kaelin Jr., Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza for identifying molecular machinery that …read more Source:: Science
Room for thought: Brain region that watches for walls identified
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•To move through the world, you need a sense of your surroundings, especially of the constraints that restrict your movement: the walls, ceiling and other barriers that define the geometry …read more Source:: Science
Brains of blind people adapt to sharpen sense of hearing, study shows
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•Research uses functional MRI to identify two differences in the brains of blind individuals — differences that might be responsible for their abilities to make better use of auditory information. …read more Source:: Science
Laughter may be best medicine — for brain surgery
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•Neuroscientists have discovered a focal pathway in the brain that when electrically stimulated causes immediate laughter, followed by a sense of calm and happiness, even during awake brain surgery. The …read more Source:: Science
Fish recognize their prey by electric colors
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•The African elephantnose fish generates weak electrical pulses to navigate its environment. This localization sense apparently shows an astonishing similarity to vision, as a study now shows. The study demonstrates …read more Source:: Science
Flying spiders sense meteorological conditions, use nanoscale fibers to float on the wind
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•Spiders take flight on the smallest of breezes by first sensing the wind, and then spinning out dozens of nanoscale fibers up to seven meters long, according to a new …read more Source:: Science
Even a shark’s electrical ‘sixth sense’ may be tuned to attack
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•Imagine having superhuman hearing. You’re at a noisy, cocktail party and yet your ears can detect normally inaudible sounds. But, unlike normal hearing, each of these sounds causes your ears …read more Source:: Science