Physical Pain and Emotional Pain Use Same Brain Networks - Slashdot
Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday June 07, 2011 @08:34PM from the morphine-cures-broken-hearts dept. Antipater writes "To the brain, heartbreak and emotional torment are no different from having hot coffee spilled on your hand, reports CNN. They cite a recent study from Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in which 40 recently-dumped men and women underwent fMRI scans while having their ar
CERN LHC Reaches Its Goals For 2010 - Slashdot
Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday October 14, 2010 @12:59PM from the christmas-break-woohoo dept. Anonymous Dupaeur writes "The goals for the first run of the most powerful particle collider (and the most energetic storage ring since ISR) were recently surpassing the 10^32 level of luminosity, with a destructive 15 MJ energy per-beam. This is a significant milestone, opening the way to collect more a
1000 Genomes Project Releases Pilot Genome Data - Slashdot
eldavojohn writes "Three pilot projects have been completed for the 1000 Genomes Project and as a result, the pilot data has been released. This makes the data of nearly 700 people available for analysis via FTP (Americas mirror, European mirror). Dr. Eric D. Green of the National Human Genome Research Institute said, 'The 1000 Genomes project has a simple goal: peer more deeply into the genetic v
How To Destroy a Black Hole - Slashdot
Posted by Soulskill on Friday June 11, 2010 @12:14PM from the put-it-in-a-michael-bay-movie dept. KentuckyFC writes "The critical concept that makes a black hole black is the event horizon: a theoretical boundary in space through which light and other objects can pass in one direction but not the other. Since light cannot escape the event horizon, it must be black. The event horizon is a nuisance
Methane-Eating Bacteria May Presage ET Life - Slashdot
asukasoryu sends along an intriguing piece in light of our recent discussion of possible signs of life on Saturn's moon Titan. "Researchers have discovered that methane-eating bacteria survive in a unique spring located on Axel Heiberg Island in Canada's extreme north. The subzero water is so salty that it doesn't freeze despite the cold, and it has no consumable oxygen in it. There are, however,
Biggest Detector To Look For Gravitational Waves - Slashdot
Posted by kdawson on Monday May 10, 2010 @07:11PM from the mission-of-gravity dept. Hugh Pickens sends in coverage in the Telegraph of a joint NASA-ESA experimental mission, to launch around 2020. It involves three spacecraft orbiting the Sun, separated by 3 million miles, each with a payload of two lasers and a 4.6-cm cube of gold-platinum alloy. The point of it all is to look for gravitational w
Bio-Detector Scans For 3,000 Viruses and Bacteria - Slashdot
Posted by timothy on Sunday May 09, 2010 @02:32PM from the can't-we-send-it-to-mars-and-settle-this? dept. separsons writes "Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory recently unveiled a three-inch-long bio-detector than can scan for 3,000 different types of viruses and bacteria in just 24 hours. The device, dubbed the Lawrence Livermore Microbial Detection Array (LLMDA), boasts si
Crowdsourcing HIV Research - Slashdot
Posted by timothy on Wednesday May 05, 2010 @04:30PM from the work-backwards-to-zero dept. biolgeek writes "In recent years, HIV has been managed with a collection of therapies. However, the virus will likely evolve around these drugs, making it crucially important to get a better understanding of the virus itself. An important step in understanding the virus is to get a handle on its genetic blue
Research Suggests Brain Has a 2-Task Limit for Multitasking - Slashdot
Posted by timothy on Saturday April 17, 2010 @07:40AM from the typing-sleeping-being-hungry-so-there dept. suraj.sun writes with a story from LiveScience about just how much attention you can devote to each of the tasks on hand that scream for it: "The brain is set up to manage two tasks, but not more, a new study suggests. That's because, when faced with two tasks, a part of the brain known as th
LHC Hits an Energy of 3.5TeV - Slashdot
Posted by kdawson on Friday March 19, 2010 @02:06PM from the do-not-look-directly-into-beam-with-your-remaining-eye dept. Inovaovao writes "As announced on Twitter by the CMS experiment, the LHC has finally accelerated both beams to 3.5 TeV for the first time. It thus broke the previous energy record of 1.18 TeV it had set last fall, about a month since operations started again this year. It'll be
Scientists Use Sex-Crazed Bugs As Pesticide - Slashdot
Posted by samzenpus on Friday March 19, 2010 @07:41PM from the doin'-it-hopper-style dept. ByronScott writes "In today's 'gross news' category, some female insects just might be getting lucky. As an alternative to toxic pesticides, scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have created 'super-sexed' sterilized male leafhoppers to knock bug boots with females in the wild, resulting in decrea
Scientists Demonstrate Mammalian Tissue Regeneration - Slashdot
Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday March 17, 2010 @11:02AM from the wolverine-explained dept. telomerewhythere writes "A quest that began over a decade ago with a chance observation has reached a milestone: the identification of a gene that may regulate regeneration in mammals. The absence of this single gene, called p21, confers a healing potential in mice long thought to have been lost through evo
Golden Nanocages To Put the Heat On Cancer Cells - Slashdot
ElectricSteve writes "Researchers have been searching for a highly targeted medical treatment that attacks cancer cells but leaves healthy tissue alone. The approach taken by scientists at Washington University in St. Louis is to use 'gold nanocages' that, when injected, selectively accumulate in tumors. When the tumors are later bathed in laser light, the surrounding tissue is barely warmed, but
The Role of Human Culture In Natural Selection - Slashdot
Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @02:05PM from the let's-see-some-selection-pressure-against-guidos dept. gollum123 writes with this excerpt from the NY Times: "... for the last 20,000 years or so, people have inadvertently been shaping their own evolution. The force is human culture, broadly defined as any learned behavior, including technology. The evidence of its activity is the mo
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