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Here's What Happens To Your Dog's Brain When He Sees You

Here’s What Happens To Your Dog’s Brain When He Sees You

Dog has been mans best friend for more than18,000 years, and anew study has shown theres a lot more evidence of our kinship with dogs than the look they give you when you come in from work. Researchers from the University of Mexico have conducted MRI scans on dogs to delve into their emotional responsewhen they come into contact with humans. Their findings were recently published in PLOS One. The…

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#brain #Dogs #emotional intelligence #MRI scans #reward center

How Do You Test The Multiverse? With Bubbles

Say our universe is a bubble. And there’s another universe in another bubble. Researchers have simulated what it would look like if the two bubbles bumped against each other, and their work could reveal the telltale signs of colliding universes — suggesting that the multiverse theory isn’t just a wild idea, but a testable hypothesis. “We’re trying to find out what the testable predictions of…

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Water found on extrasolar ‘hot Jupiter’

Scientists have detected water vapor in the atmosphere of the planet tau Boötis b, which orbits a star named tau Boötis, and their new technique could help us find more planets with water outside of our solar system. This planet belongs to a class of relatively common extrasolar planets known as “hot Jupiters,” called such because they are massive exoplanets that orbit very close to its…

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#exoplanet #hot jupiter #Water

Fat And Sugar-Heavy Diet Harms Your Brain – And Makes You Keep On Eating

Do you eat only when you’re actually hungry? Many of us eat even when our bodies don’t need food. Just the thought of food entices us to eat. We think about food when we see other people eating, when we pass a favorite fast-food restaurant, when we see a scrumptious snack near the check-out at a convenience store. In addition, we’re the targets of sophisticated advertising techniques designed to…

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#diet #fat #health #sugar

Scared Out Of Your Mind: Halloween, Fear And The Brain

Children and adults alike are digging out those spooky costumes ready for a celebration. We’ve reached that time of year again: Halloween. October 31 is dedicated to remembering the dead. We’ve all experienced fear, but Halloween is the particular time of year when we look for that rush that usually accompanies feeling scared. Are you in need of a “scare-specialist” for this year’s Halloween…

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#adrenaline #brain #dopamine #fear #Halloween

Medieval Warm Period Not So Warm In Greenland

Glacier remnants indicate that Greenland was substantially colder when the Vikings settled it a thousand years ago than it is today. The findingundercuts the perception that Greenland was colonized because the climate was relatively inviting at the timea belief that has been given great weight by those disputing evidence for global warming. In Science Advances, Columbia University’s Professor…

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#change #Climate #Greeland #Medieval Warm Period #vikings

FA Cup: Man Utd defeats Crystal Palace

Ten-man Manchester United won the English FA Cup for the first time since 2004 as it battled back to defeat Crystal Palace after extra time at Wembley Stadium Saturday. All copyrights for this article are reserved to CNN

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#biology #Chemistry #Physics #science

Musician Composes Pi Song On Piano In order to help himself remember the digits of pi, David Macdonald decided to turn each digit into a note on the A minor scale to play on the piano.

New Tomato Grows All Night in Fake Light

Scientists have developed a 24/7 party tomato that continues to plump up all night long. The trick was finding the gene that confers continuous light tolerance in wild tomatoes. Artificial lighting has been used to help boost crop productivity, increasing the amount of natural light available each day. Pepper, lettuce, and rose plants don’t mind continuous lighting at all. But these longer…

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Algae Study Sheds Light On The Evolution Of Sexes

In an intriguing new study, scientists discovered that a single gene in multicellular green algae that determines whether the organisms produce sperm or eggs evolved from a primitive form in its unicellular ancestor that does not have separate sexes. The research may therefore hint at how sexes in multicellular organisms evolved from sexless ancestors. The work has been published in PLOS Biology.…

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#algae #Evolution #sexual dimorphism

Sold! Most expensive diamond ever

The world’s largest blue diamond, an extremely rare gem known as “The Oppenheimer Blue”, sold for $57.5 million at Christie’s Geneva Wednesday night, making it the most expensive diamond ever to be sold at auction. All copyrights for this article are reserved to CNN

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#biology #Chemistry #Physics #science

Scientists Develop Polymer That Can Be Applied To The Skin To Temporarily Erase Wrinkles

Researchers have developed what is in effect a second skin that is soft, flexible, and essentially invisible. Currently, the team are exploring the material’s potential cosmetic applicationsas an effective way to remove wrinkles, treat under-eye bags, and give a general youthful appearance, though its not difficult to imagineother applications within the medical world. It could provide a new way…

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#cosmetic surgery #drug delivery #mit #second skin #wrinkles

Spectacular Volcanic Eruption Threatens Ecuadorian Villages

Residents of several towns and villages in the Ecuadorian Andes are currently on tenterhooks as towering plumes of smoke and ash bellow from the crater of Tungurahua. The volcano is5,000-meterss-high (16,400-foot), andhas been active since 1999, following eight decades of dormancy. The volcanos last major eruption occurred in 2006, when the nearby villages of Chilibu, Choglontuz, and Palitagua…

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#ash #ecuador #lava #magma #pyroclastic flow #Tungurahua #volcanic eruption #volcano

Cat Walks For The First Time After Receiving Titanium Prosthetic Legs Vincent the cat was born with an abnormality inhis hind legs, which meanthe couldn't walk. Abandoned as a kitten, he was left in the hands of the Story County Animal Shelter in Iowa.

#cat #cute #kitten #prosthetics #titanium #Video

How Many Sharks Do Humans Kill Per Hour?

Humans kill an astonishing number of sharks every year. Various species are the victims of culling in attempts to make beaches safer, bycatch by commercial fishing vessels, trophy catches and the practice of finning for food. While it’s difficult to know exactly how many sharks are killed annually by humans, a study published last year in the journal Marine Policy attempted to calculate the…

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#finning #sharks

Bionic Hand Gives Amputee Real-Time Sensation Each year in the United States 150,000 people will have a limb amputated. It can be particularly devastating to lose a hand, due to the incredible amount of sensory information received from them.

#bionic prosthetics #bionics #prosthetic-limbs #prosthetics

3D "Semantic Atlas" Of The Brain Reveals How We All Give Meaning To Words

3D “Semantic Atlas” Of The Brain Reveals How We All Give Meaning To Words

A team of neuroscientists at the University of California (UC), Berkeley have made a major advancement in our understanding of the spoken word by actually mapping out how the brain organizes how we apply meaning to language. Publishing their results in the journal Nature, they reveal that its not just one part of the brain that lights up when language processing is required its all of it.…

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#3d #abstract #brain #dictionary #Evolution #map #meaning #semantic atlas #thesaurus

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