POPSCI– Researchers at IBM have created the most complex neurological map ever seen, detailing the comprehensive long-distance network that makes up the macaque monkey brain in unprecedented detail. Such a roadmap through the brain’s complex networking processes could have major implications for attempts at reverse-engineering neural networks and creating cognitive computer chips that “think” as powerfully and efficiently as the … Read More
BBC– Plants are able to “remember” and “react” to information contained in light, according to researchers. Plants, scientists say, transmit information about light intensity and quality from leaf to leaf in a very similar way to our own nervous systems. These “electro-chemical signals” are carried by cells that act as “nerves” of the plants. The researchers used fluorescence imaging to … Read More
NY TIMES– When the rains come and the rivers swell, giant bones tend to wash up in this remote rice-farming corner of Thailand. Giant tyrannosaur footprints were found in Baan Na Kum. For years, farmers did not know what they were or what to do with them. The superstitious buried them. Others brought them to Buddhist temples, where monks collected … Read More
3 NEWS– Pluto lost its position as a planet in 2006, and now looks set for further humiliation. Currently considered a dwarf planet alongside four others – Eris, Ceres, Haumea and Makemake – new research suggests there could be at least 50 more in the club, which no longer seems so exclusive. ”It’s like being a member of the Qantas … Read More
EXAMINER– Witnesses to the March 1997 mass UFO sightings wave that became known as the Phoenix Lights are coming forward with previously unreported accounts, thanks to the broadcast of American Paranormal: UFOs Over Phoenix on the National Geographic Channel. That broadcast repeats tonight and Monday morning and is expected to provoke even more witnesses to come forward. The result is … Read More
