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Scientists in Kyoto have reproduced an image based on how the brain responds – effectively reading the brain.
Yoichi Miyawaki and colleagues at the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories have published a report in the journal Neuron, where they used functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)...
The festive season is upon us, many of us will no doubt be raising a glass or two of wine in celebration. And this week there is news of a novel way that scientists have found to give a boost to a bottle of cheap plonk. A revolting young table wine can be transformed into a refined tipple simply by ...
The destruction produced by earthquakes can be devastating in its self, but often the knock on effects of this destruction can be even worse. For example if an earthquake damages a bridge beyond repair there are not just problems for the poeple on and around the bridge. It also means that the emerge...
How could I resist talking about a story that hit the headlines this week – the discovery that there are seahorses living in the busy waters of the Thames Estuary in London.
Over the past 18 months, researchers from the Zoological Society of London have encountered a population of short snouted sea...
Scientists have used brain scans to uncover what happens in the minds of jazz and other improv players when their creative juices start flowing.
Writing in the journal PLoS One, US research duo Allen Braun and Charles Limb recruited 6 trained jazz pianists and asked them to play scales, some pre-le...
A story from earlier in the year which hopefully will be the start of big things to come was the news that a small california based company called Space X has managed to build a rocket to put a satellite into orbit. This may not sound particularly impressive as governments have been doing this for 5...
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