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Combining Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation with Telemedicine Enables Breakthrough Treatment at Home
Neuroscience News - 28 Dec 2020 01:40
Summary: Non-invasive brain stimulation in a telemedicine delivery model ensures that patients can maintain their treatment plans even when it becomes impractical or impossible to visit a care setting. Source: Ana Maique...
Can't Draw a Mental Picture? Aphantasia Causes Blind Spots in the Mind's Eye
Neuroscience News - 28 Dec 2020 01:12
While people with aphantasia lack visual imagery ability, they have intact spatial memory. Findings suggest mental imagery recall and spatial memory may be stored differently in the brain.
Love and Hate in the Brain
Neuroscience News - 28 Dec 2020 00:50
Activity in the medial preoptic area tilts the mouse brain toward love and affection, while activity in the ventromedial hypothalamus is associated with more aggressive or hateful acts.
How a Software Map of the Entire Planet Could Change the World Forever
Singularity Hub - 27 Dec 2020 19:00
i "3D map data is the scaffolding of the 21st century." -Edward Miller, Founder, Scape Technologies, UK Covered in cameras, sensors, and a distinctly spaceship looking laser system, Google's autonomous vehicles were easy...
10 geological discoveries that absolutely rocked 2020
Live Science - 27 Dec 2020 18:53
Here are 10 of the most amazing geological discoveries of the year.
10 times science made a sucky year suck less
Live Science - 27 Dec 2020 18:37
From the incredible efforts of scientists to develop a COVID-19 vaccine in record time to clapping seals, this year had some amazing discoveries.
What are the most common ways people get injured?
Live Science - 27 Dec 2020 16:00
The most common culprit is found in most homes.
10 times sharks made our jaws drop in 2020
Live Science - 27 Dec 2020 16:00
Here are our favorite stories about sharks from 2020.
Discovery boosts theory that life on Earth arose from RNA-DNA mix
EurekAlert! - 27 Dec 2020 09:00
(Scripps Research Institute) Chemists at Scripps Research have made a discovery that supports a surprising new view of how life originated on our planet. In a study published in the chemistry journal Angewandte Chemie, t...