Science seems to follow Science Fiction more and more often these days. One of the most recent examples of this is an experiment by at UC Davis in which researchers used beams of light to “switch off” the part of the hippocampus in the brains of genetically modified mice that relays memory from the cerebral cortex and allows the animal to picture the memory, or “relive” it–similar to the Neuralyzer used by the Men in Black to wipe memories from ordinary folk who had seen alien activity. Scientists have speculated that the hippocampus is very involved in memory retrieval, but this is the first direct evidence to support that hypothesis.
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Winning Science July 10, 2013
So I don’t really understand chemistry, and now apparently those few rules of chemistry don’t apply in space. And its due to quantum tunneling, which is just a bizarre, but cool phenomenon.
And even more awesome, the effect was observed with alcohol.
A Japanese company is now one step closer to giving us Iron Man. Leave it to the Japanese to come up with something this cool
Just please tell me they’re not going to try and have sex with it.
Bad news for Android users. BlueBox has discovered a master key that can make 99% of Android devices into zombies.
Makes me a more than a little glad that I switched to Apple, though I’m sure the government is watching me either way.
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