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The Latest NFL Lawsuit Centers on This Exhumed Brain
Could brain tissue from the exhumed body of an NFL linebacker who died more than a year ago help his family win a legal case – and presumably a pile of money -- from his former team? That’s one of ......
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Scientists Digitize Psychology’s Most Famous Brain
Henry Gustav Molaison is one of the most famous patients in the annals of brain research. In 1953, an experimental surgery meant to relieve his severe epilepsy rendered him unable to form new memories....
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What Musicians Can Tell Us About Dyslexia and the Brain
Musicians with dyslexia are extremely uncommon. A new study, the first to look at this rare group, challenges some of the conventional thinking on the relationship between language and music. The post...
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New Bionic Hand Gives Amputee a Grip — And a Sense of Touch
Dennis Aabo Sørensen lost his left hand in a fireworks accident during a family holiday when he was in his mid-twenties. Last year, the 36-year old Danish man got a chance to test out a new prosthetic...
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At Sochi Olympics, Crowdsourced OpenStreetMap Trounces Google Maps
If you're looking for detailed maps of the Olympic sites around Sochi, Google maps may not be your best bet. OpenStreetMap, the crowdsourced Wikipedia of cartography, looks to have much better coverage...
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Hyperlocal Neighborhood Maps Reveal the Chaos in Aleppo
Hardly a day goes by that Aleppo isn't in the news, and the news has usually been awful. As many as 500,000 people have fled in recent weeks as the Syrian government has bombed rebel-held parts of the...
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Maps Show the Long History of Nicaragua’s Canal Dreams
Plans are afoot once again to build a canal through Nicaragua, providing a shortcut for container ships carrying goods to and from Asia and the east coast of North America. Like others before it, the...
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Why the Plan to Dig a Canal Across Nicaragua Could Be a Very Bad Idea
By the end of this year, digging could begin on a waterway that would stretch roughly 180 miles across Nicaragua to unite the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Giant container ships capable of carrying...
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Architecture May Influence Which Microbes Surround You
They have us surrounded. Even inside the spaces we build for ourselves -- like homes and offices -- we are a tiny minority. Invisible bacteria, fungi, and viruses outnumber us by orders of magnitude....
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Science Graphic of the Week: A Beautiful Map of How Mouse Brains Are Wired
This week WIRED Science kicks off a new feature highlighting great science visualizations. We'll bring you the most awesome scientific graphic, illustration, map, or image we find each week. Our...
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14 World-Changing Data Visualizations, From the Last 4 Centuries
Science may be difficult, but it definitely doesn’t have to be ugly. These images, from a new exhibit at the British Library, show how beautiful scientific data can be. The post 14 World-Changing Data...
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What Happens in the Brain When Blind People Learn to See With Sound
Deprived of sight, blind people manage to squeeze an amazing amount of information out of their other senses. Doing this requires their brains to do some reorganizing. To learn about some of these...
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How to Make a Microscope Out of Paper in 10 Minutes
A new microscope can be printed on a flat piece of paper and assembled in less than 10 minutes. And the parts to make it cost less than a dollar. The post How to Make a Microscope Out of Paper in 10...
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Exquisite, Disturbing Objects From 500 Years of Human Anatomical Science
For centuries people have been simultaneously fascinated by what's inside the human body and squeamish about getting close enough to a cadaver to actually find out. "There's this tension between the...
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Fascinating Old Maps of Both Real and Ridiculous NYC Transit Projects
Imagine a bigger Manhattan jutting out into New York Harbor. A triple-decker boulevard running through its heart would accommodate trains on its lower deck, cars in the middle, and planes landing on...
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We Mapped Our Boss’ Office With This Slick New 3-D Camera
Three-dimensional interactive models of indoor spaces have traditionally been expensive and labor-intensive to create. But now anybody can buy a system that can make really neat digital renderings of a...
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Frozen Underground for 1,500 Years, a Moss Comes Back to Life
Scientists have an awesome word for things that look like they're dead but aren't really dead: cryptobiosis. Crypto for hidden, and biosis for life. Lots of organisms can do this. Scientists have...
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This Computer Can Tell When People Are Faking Pain
You can tell when someone's faking a smile or pretending to be in pain, right? Sure you can. But computer scientists think they can build systems that do it even better. There's already a Google Glass...
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Maps Reveal How Immigration Transformed Boston’s Neighborhoods
In 1910, Boston was the fifth biggest city in the United States, with a population just over 670,000. It was the second busiest port of entry for foreigners at the time, and 240,000 of its citizens...
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An Unexpected Discovery in the Brains of Autistic Children
Nobody knows what causes autism, a condition that varies so widely in severity that some people on the spectrum achieve enviable fame and success while others require lifelong assistance due to severe...
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