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A uniquely human brain area?
It's called the ventrolateral frontal cortex. It's a part of the brain involved in human processes, such as strategic planning and multi-tasking.
February 6, 2014
Hearing improves after a week of blindness
A study suggests that the loss of one sense - vision - can improve another sense - in this case, hearing - by altering the brain circuit.
February 6, 2014
Kepler discovers a wobbly planet with weird seasons
On Earth, the cycle of precession lasts 26,000 years. The planet Kepler-413b precesses, or wobbles, wildly on its spin axis, in a cycle of only 11 years.
February 5, 2014
Dinosaur discovered in 2008 now known among largest land animals
Bone structure indicates that it was a juvenile, estimated to be 60 feet (18 meters) long. An adult would have been much larger.
February 3, 2014
NASA to create the coldest spot in the universe aboard the ISS
The researchers plan to study matter at 100 pico-Kelvin. At such low temperatures, ordinary concepts of solid, liquid and gas are no longer relevant.
January 31, 2014
Newly-discovered virus has voracious appetite for anthrax
The newly-discovered anthrax-devouring Tsamsa virus, found in a zebra carcass in Namibia, could lead to new ways to combat deadly anthrax bacteria.
January 30, 2014
Space travel weakens flies’ immune systems
Fruit flies sent as eggs on a 12-day mission aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery had a key part of their immune system weakened, as they grew in space.
January 30, 2014
Brown dwarf weather revealed by surface mapping
For humans, brown dwarf weather will always be rated as "extremely inclement" with temps of 2,000 degrees F (1,100 C) and clouds made of minute droplets of molten iron.
January 29, 2014
River of hydrogen flowing through space
A faint, tenuous filament of gas streaming into galaxy NGC 6946. It might help explain how some spiral galaxies keep up their pace of star formation.
January 28, 2014
Large sharks and rays could go extinct in coming decades
"Losing these fish will be like losing whole chapters of our evolutionary history." - Nick Dulvy
January 28, 2014
