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First Human Tests of Memory Boosting Brain Implant a Big Leap Forward
Singularity Hub - 15 Nov 2015 20:38
"You have to begin to lose your memory, if only bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all."...
House Cats Are as Big as Ping-Pong Tables (If You Count Their Hair)
Live Science - 15 Nov 2015 19:26
Hair boosts the surface area of animals by 100 times the surface area of their skin alone.
Did Dark Matter Kill the Dinosaurs? A Q&A with Author Lisa Randall
Scientific American - 15 Nov 2015 17:00
In her new book Randall probes the connections between seemingly unrelated phenomena in our universe --
Programmable electronic glasses provide children effective, digital lazy eye treatment
Science Daily - 15 Nov 2015 01:52
Programmable digital glasses for lazy eye work as well as eye patching, study shows, improving vision by about 2 lines on the reading chart after 3 months. First new effective lazy eye treatment in 50 years.
Prostate cancer screening under age of 55 may be of limited value
Science Daily - 15 Nov 2015 01:50
Mass prostate cancer (PSA) screening before the age of 55 may not have any benefit over screening starting after the age of 55, according to a new 20 year analysis of 6822 patients.
Injection instead of laser may be viable treatment option for diabetic retinopathy
Science Daily - 15 Nov 2015 01:50
Among patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy, treatment with an injection in the eye of the drug ranibizumab resulted in visual acuity that was not worse than panretinal photocoagulation at two years, according...
One-step test for hepatitis C virus infection developed
Science Daily - 15 Nov 2015 01:50
A cost-effective one-step test that screens, detects and confirms hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections has been developed by researchers. Current blood-based HCV testing requires two steps and can be expensive, inconvenien...
Falls and brawls top list of causes for eye injuries in United States
Science Daily - 15 Nov 2015 01:50
Fighting and assault caused nearly 8,000 eye injuries treated in hospitals from 2002-2011, while falling led causes of ocular trauma with more than 8,500 incidents reported.