Well It’s Official Cell Phones Can Cause Brain Cancer
The WHO/International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified radiofrequency electromagnetic fields as possibly carcinogenic to humans (Group 2B), based on an increased risk for glioma, a...
View ArticleBrain Implants Tested in Israel
Faulty parts of living brains have been replaced by electronic chips, in an astonishing and controversial scientific breakthrough. It’s a move that has been anticipated many times in science fiction,...
View ArticleExperiments in Hacking the Human Brain
Once the preserve of science fiction, brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have advanced to the point where they can even be found in novelty head-gear, which only makes this achievement of an...
View ArticleBrain Controlled Robotic Suit Could Help Reduce Fukushima Cleanup Risk
Japanese Brain Wave Controlled Robotic Suit May Help Make Fukushima Cleanup Safer Contrary to popular belief, the horrific nuclear disaster at Fukushima is far from over. Indeed, as Agence...
View ArticleFrying an Astronauts Brain: Cosmic Radiation and Space Travel
As if space travel was not already filled with enough dangers, a new study out today in the journal PLOS ONE shows that cosmic radiation – which would bombard astronauts on deep space missions to...
View ArticleWhy: €1 Billion Computer Model of a Human Brain
The Human Brain Project has just won a €1 billion research prize. Its director Henry Markram says the initiative will unify our understanding of the brain Your project aims to recreate the human brain...
View ArticleUnique Disruption of Brain Circuits in Gulf War Syndrome
When she returned from serving in the Gulf conflict in 1991, US Air Force nurse Denise Nichols experienced sudden aches, fatigue and cognitive problems, but had no idea ‘what was causing them. They...
View ArticlePsychiatrist Wants Brain of Boston Bomber
A Boston psychiatrist wants the brain of slain marathon bomb suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev studied like a crime scene to look for evidence that his boxing career may have left him brain damaged and...
View ArticleUnexpected Benefit Discovered From Nuclear Bomb Testing
Nuclear bomb tests carried out during the cold war have had an unexpected benefit. A radioactive carbon isotope expelled by the blasts has been used to date the age of adult human brain cells,...
View ArticleNew Virus Discovered in Brain Infection Patients
Researchers have discovered a new virus in patients in Vietnam suffering from severe brain infections, a team of scientists reported today in mBio, the journal of the American Society for Microbiology....
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