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Live Science - 14 Oct 2017 17:25MS risk in children spotted with MRI brain scans
Science Daily - 14 Oct 2017 17:17
By the time multiple sclerosis (MS) is diagnosed in children, it may be difficult to prevent the disabilities and relapses that come with the disease. In a new study, researchers examined MRI brain scans to identify chil...
A dietary supplement dampens the brain hyperexcitability seen in seizures or epilepsy
Science Daily - 14 Oct 2017 17:17
Researchers have found that inducing a biochemical alteration in brain proteins via the dietary supplement glucosamine was able to rapidly dampen that pathological hyperexcitability in rat and mouse models. These results...
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Singularity Hub - 14 Oct 2017 17:00
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Google’s Learning Software Learns to Write Learning Software Tom Simonite | Wired "In a project called AutoML, Google's researchers have taught machine-learning software to build machine-learnin...
Lab takes detailed look at 2-D structure of turbulence in tokamaks
Phys.org - 14 Oct 2017 09:43
A key hurdle for fusion researchers is understanding turbulence, the ripples and eddies that can cause the superhot plasma that fuels fusion reactions to leak heat and particles and keep fusion from taking place. Compreh...