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Article - Bigelow Aerospace and NASA exploring inflatable moon base
Posted in: Science
Comment: Imagine a Kickstarter campain to help fund this
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Article - Google Glass will have its own library of voice controlled apps
Posted in: Hardware
Comment: Very nice site!
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Article - Google Glass will have its own library of voice controlled apps
Posted in: Hardware
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Article - Google Glass will have its own library of voice controlled apps
Posted in: Hardware
Comment: Very nice site!
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Article - Google Glass will have its own library of voice controlled apps
Posted in: Hardware
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Article - NASA Boss Says Mars Colonization Will Be Corporate Only
Posted in: Science
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Article - Facial Recognition Comes to Google Glass
Posted in: Hardware
Comment: its a very futuristic device
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Article - Gene Therapy enhancement of IGF1 production triples endurance in mice
Posted in: Science
Comment: klmwXN Thanks a lot for the blog.Really looking forward to read more. Cool.
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Article - Genetically modified Golden Rice prevents Vitamin A deficiency and Blindness
Posted in: Science
Comment: ZyOu0h Really appreciate you sharing this article.Really thank you! Great.
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Article - Microsoft defeats Google over a third patent in Germany
Posted in: Business
Comment: Qrqqe1 I really like and appreciate your article post.Much thanks again.
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Article - Scientists Discover Hulk Protein
Posted in: Science
Comment: mbeJ8y Muchos Gracias for your article.Much thanks again.
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Article - Genetically modified Golden Rice prevents Vitamin A deficiency and Blindness
Posted in: Science
Comment: axYyc7 I really enjoy the blog post. Much obliged.
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Article - Carbon dioxide passes symbolic mark
Posted in: Science
Comment: oh no.. we dont want this to happen.. we are going to die if CO2 increases.
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Article - Did Earth And The Moon Get Their Water From The Same Place?
Posted in: Science
Comment: A great article to read indeed.
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Article - Watching Your Brain Freak Out On A Scanner Calms You Down
Posted in: Medicine
Comment: LOL
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Article - Air Pollution Raises Risk of Diabetes Precursor in Kids
Posted in: Medicine
Comment: I am really scared.
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Article - Bioteeth From Stemcells Will Regrow Complete Tooth, Superior to Implants
Posted in: Medicine
Comment: Great article to read !
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Article - Sleep mask promises lucid dreams
Posted in: Science
Comment: Well, I think they should go back to banging their bits and quit trying to do anything that sounds intelligent, they weren't built for it.
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Article - Study shows sounds during sleep can help memory
Posted in: Medicine
Comment: When journalists talk about science, they dumb it down and some of the things they say are imprecise and don't explain clearly enough the results. It is a very good study done by some world renown experts in the slow wave sleep. The link between slow wave sleep and memory consolidation is very well established by hundreds of studies. What was done here is to actually boost slow waves synchronization and efficiency using sounds that were locked to the brain waves of the subjects. The experimenters use the individual brain waves and created pulses of sound when a particular state of the slow waves was reached. During these states neurons fire or are silent and many important events are happening in the brain at these phases, like synapses are being pruned or reinforced to make memory stronger or weaker according to what the brain considers worthwhile to remember or discarded. The sample is small but the results are so good to make them still statistically significant. It needs to be validated by other groups but this how you do this type of study, first a pilot and then a larger group clinical study.
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Article - Study shows sounds during sleep can help memory
Posted in: Medicine
Comment: If you want to comment do the effort to read the paper. It is published in one of the best neuroscience journals. It is a small study but the results are statistically significant even with such small sample. It is just a pilot study and this is what you need to get fund for a more systematic clinical study. It was tested on young people but it could be very beneficial in an aging population where memory loss is a serious life impacting problem. It is not like previous studies involving sounds during sleep. The pink noise bursts were precisely synchronized to the brain waves. During slow wave sleep there are up and down states, when the neurons fire and are silent, the researcher synchronized precisely the pulses to either the up or down states of the slow waves. Only the up state seemed to increase memory and the result makes sense from a neuroscience point of view. Slow waves are implicated in many processes besides memory (metabolism, hormone regulation, aging) and boosting them through a simple and safe method as sound is a great breakthrough.
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