Februar 2010
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Singing rewires damaged brains
Teaching stroke patients to sing rewires their brains, helping them recover their speech, say scientists.
By singing, patients use a different area of the brain from the area involved in speech. If a person’s “speech centre” is damaged by a stroke, they can learn to use their “singing centre” instead.
Researchers presented these findings at the annual meeting of...
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Supernova explosions triggered by star collisions
The trigger that ignites a common type of stellar explosion has finally been uncovered with observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, providing a major advance in the understanding of supernovas.
These supernovas, called Type 1A, result from the explosion of a white dwarf star. These types of supernovas are used as cosmic mile markers, and knowing what causes these stellar...
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Particles of dark matter possibly detected
Analyzing results of an experiment in a northern Minnesota mine, physicists report the possible detection of particles of dark matter — the proposed invisible material believed to account for about 80 percent of the mass of the universe. The physicists caution, however, that there’s about a one in four chance that ordinary subatomic particles, rather than dark matter, could account for the...
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AnschauenPandorum ♥!!
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The Power of First Experiences // Love
Your first love may come to define what love means for you, and any subsequent relationships you have will be influenced by this first experience whether you realize it or not.
A first romantic relationship has one critical novel element: “It’s the only time you’re ever in love where you’ve never had your heart broken,” says Laura Carpenter, a sociologist at Vanderbilt University. “You can...
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The Power of First Experiences // Loss
In Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, the tormented antihero Humbert Humbert describes Annabel, a childhood neighbor who loves him passionately for one summer, then dies of typhus. “I leaf again and again through these miserable memories,” writes Humbert, “and keep asking myself, was it then, in the glitter of that remote summer, that the rift in my life began?”
First loss...
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The neural basis of love as a subliminal prime
madeofstarstuff:
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Mapped brain activities for love compared to passion shown on lateral views of the fiducial left and right side of the brain. Time courses, averaged over prime type were extracted for the significant regions between love and passion contrasts and are shown for the angular gyrus and fusiform gyrus. // Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Throughout the ages, love has...
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Our world may be a giant hologram →
mikefurtak:
This is the most mind-bending, awesome piece of science I have seen in a while, and the author does a great job of presenting it in understandable language.
In short, scientists are wondering if noise in their gravitational wave measurements are evidence that we are all living in a giant cosmic hologram.
Wait, what?
Exactly. Check out the article to get the physics broken down for...
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Physicist Discovers How to Teleport Energy →
mattlehrer:
Since energy and mass can be converted back and forth (E=MC2), it’s only a matter of time before teleportation is real. 2010!
All this is possible because there are always quantum fluctuations in the energy of any particle. The teleportation process allows you to inject quantum energy at one point in the universe and then exploit quantum energy fluctuations to extract it from another...
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