Researchers demonstrate a way to watch the brain activity of the tiny zebrafish in (nearly) real time, a baby step toward the dream of mapping human brain activity.
Rats with electrodes implanted in their heads can send information directly from brain to brain, even from different continents. Could this discovery herald the beginning of mind reading and an Internet of brains?
Science Can Now Create Telepathic Rats
Captured deep beneath the waves: 10ft squid filmed in natural habitat
(Photo: NHK/NEP/Discovery Channel via Reuters)
The world’s first moving images of a giant squid living in its natural habitat have been captured by a team of scientists led by a Japanese zoologist more than half a mile below the surface of the Pacific Ocean.
(via nbcnews)
Back in the days of our Cosmotron accelerator, control rooms were full of analog knobs and buttons, and the scientists wore pants up at their actual waists. In 1952, the hard-core researchers above were inventing new technologies to replicate energetic cosmic rays.
Nowadays, our Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider carries that torch, but it’s operated in a lean, flat-screened control room. There may not be oscilloscope panels or a 1950s microphone, but groundbreaking data and high-precision measurements play out across each of those screens as RHIC smashes particles. Our NASA Space Radiation Laboratory uses that same control room to prepare particle beams that simulate the impacts of deep space travel on biology and materials.
(via clearscience)
Porcupine quills aren’t just sharp. Some of them have backward-facing barbs to make them harder to remove.
The young, hot stars come out for telescope’s inauguration
(Photo: ESO. Acknowledgement: VPHAS+ Consortium / Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit)
A gorgeous photo of a star-forming region of space called the Carina Nebula marks the inauguration of a new telescope — the largest instrument in the world devoted to surveying the sky in visible light.
The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory in Chile was officially inaugurated Thursday in Naples, Italy.
(via nbcnews)
