Browsing Archive: November, 2012

Ice on Mercury

Posted by on Friday, November 30, 2012,
As some of you are already aware, there have been rumors for the past month that NASA was preparing to announce something big. Much of the rumor focused on the Curiosity probe on Mars, with speculation that it had discovered organic molecules or some form of life on the red planet. Meanwhile NASA kept the information to themselves, as they wanted to confirm it before releasing any results.

Today the results were released, and it wasn't what anyone was expecting. It wasn't the Curiosity probe, ...
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Coma Communications

Posted by on Tuesday, November 13, 2012, In : Medical 
There is an interesting new research study in the field of neuroscience that I thought deserved a comment. (I must admit as well that I haven't read all the details yet, so I could be incorrect or inaccurate - anyone who is seriously interested in this subject should read the original work instead of relying on my summary)

Scientists have finally been able to communicate indirectly with patients who are in a vegetative state.  The method involves placing patients inside of an fMRI machine, whi...
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Dr. Chris Bird I am a theoretical physicist & mathematician, with training in electronics, programming, robotics, and a number of other related fields.

   


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