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By Chris Capps It’s hard to believe, but scientists are about to embark on a journey that has thus far never been tried before.  Tapping into the root principle behind quantum physics, they are going to actually make an object – a visible glass sphere – exist in two separate locations at the same time.  […]

Is a Nobel Prize on its way to Stephen Hawking? Hawking is world renowned for his work on gravity and black holes, including his 1974 postulation of the eponymous Hawking radiation, a theory that says a black hole should give off a stream of particles from its outer boundary. Hawking predicted that black holes emit thermal

University researchers in England and the Ukraine have built a laser that emits high-frequency sound waves instead of light beams. Called simply the “saser,” the acoustic laser uses packets of sonic vibrations called “phonons” much like a regular laser uses photons. Specifically, the acoustic laser device consists of a sonic beam traveling through a “superlattice”

ScienceDaily (Apr. 14, 2009) — Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have shed light on how the neurotransmitter dopamine helps brain cells process important information. Researchers found in a study of mouse cells that this neurotransmitter, one of the molecules used by nerve cells to communicate with one another, causes certain brain cells to become

Since 2004, University of Buffalo anthropologist Ezra Zubrow has worked with teams of scientists at prehistoric sites in the Arctic regions of St. James Bay, Quebec, northern Finland and Kamchatka to understand how humans living 4,000 to 6,000 years ago reacted to climate changes. “The circumpolar north is widely seen as an observatory for changing

DBS was first developed in France in 1987 and involves placing thin wires deep in the brain and connecting them to a matchbox-sized “pacemaker” inserted under the skin. It provides electric pulses which inhibit or stimulate brain circuits that are involved in the regulation of emotion and function wrongly in depression. The pulses change brain