As we yawn and open our eyes in the morning, the brain stem sends little puffs of nitric oxide to another part of the brain, the thalamus, which then directs it elsewhere. Like a computer booting up its operating system before running more complicated
As we yawn and open our eyes in the morning, the brain stem sends little puffs of nitric oxide to another part of the brain, the thalamus, which then directs it elsewhere. Like a computer booting up its operating system before running more complicated
Maintaining a blog can be a boon to your career, increasing your profile in the scientific community, connecting you to collaborators, and helping you land new grants or jobs.
The Ministry of Health, Brazil has reported a total of 48 cases of yellow fever including 13 deaths. This outbreak of yellow fever follows an epizootic outbreak in monkeys that started in April 2007 and has since spread to 80 municipalities.
xd3d is a simple scientific visualization tool designed to be easy to learn. It can plot 2d and 3d meshes, with shadowing, contour plots, vector fields, iso-contour (3d), as well as 3d surfaces z=f(x,y) defined by an algebraic expression or a cloud of points. It generates high quality vector PostScript files for scientific publications and still or animated bitmap images. It includes the graph plotter xgraphic.
DataCite is focused on improving the scholarly infrastructure around datasets. There will be a set of activities around establishing and sharing best-practices, identifying and solving some of the unique issues that arise with datasets.
the Wuppertal Institute focuses its work on application-oriented sustainability research, addressing the major challenges related to sustainable development, such as climate change or resource shortages.
"In some extreme cases, this theory that culture shapes the way science is conducted is right. In the mid-19th century, physicians discovered that slaves suffered from drapetomania, or the uncontrollable urge to escape from slavery..."
EX: Turning off Depression: Profile of a Neurologist; A Revealing Reflection: Mirror Neurons Talk, Walk, and Culture; Trial and Error: How Scientific-Journal Peer Review Allows Fraud, Error, and a Bit of Hubris...
It draws on more than 12 terabytes of imagery from several orbiting and land-based telescopes. It downloads the images on demand and stitches them together to form an interactive, browsable universe.