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Nerd on the fringe of society plotting combinatorial explosion ala Pinky and the Brain.

Brain: Here we are, Pinky--at the dawn of time!
Pinky: Narf, Brain. Wake me at the noon of time.


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'Super sand' for better purification of drinking water →

he researchers used a simple method to coat sand grains with graphite oxide, creating a super sand that successfully removed mercury and a dye molecule from water. In the mercury test, ordinary sand…

— 6 months ago
City Electric Bicycle by VojtÄ›ch Sojka →

His design features a hydroformed aluminum frame with the motor positioned in the bottom bracket, for a clean look and better weight distribution than a motor in the rear hub. And an Alfine in the…

— 7 months ago
How City Living Stresses the Brain | Urban Life, Mental Illness & Stress | LiveScience →

During the stressful task, students who were living in cities showed increased activity in a brain region called the perigenual anterior cingulate cortex (PACC), while those who lived in cities in…

— 7 months ago
Omnidirectional 3D Nanoplasmonic Optical Antenna Array via Soft-Matter Transformation - Nano Letters (ACS Publications) →

Inspired by the natural processes during morphogenesis, we demonstrate the transformation capability of active soft-matter to define nanoscale metal-on-polymer architectures below the resolution…

— 7 months ago
Part of the brain that tracks limbs in space discovered →

Scientists have identified an area of the human brain called the parietal cortex that constructs this body model from the combination of tactile information from your skin (for example, where the…

— 1 year ago
New role for master regulator in cell metabolism, response to stress →

AMPK binds directly to sites on chromosomes called promoters that regulate gene expression related to cell metabolism.

— 1 year ago
Seeing Gray When Feeling Blue? Depression Can Be Measured in the Eye of the Diseased →

Unmedicated and medicated depressed patients displayed dramatically lower retinal contrast gain. We found a strong and significant correlation between contrast gain and severity of depression. This…

— 1 year ago
Depression and Glia « Are you Scicurious? →

chronically stressed rats had LESS GLIA than unstressed rats. This meant that the stress itself reduced the glia.

— 1 year ago
Triangular Hole Reveals Light's Rotation →

A property of light called orbital angular momentum can be directly measured by sending the beam through a triangular aperture and counting the spots that appear in the diffraction pattern.

— 1 year ago