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Episode 30: Deep Brain Stimulation
Deep brain stimulation is like a pacemaker for your brain: it can stop tremors, wake you from a coma, and maybe even make you smarter. All these miraculous results, but nobody knows exactly how it...
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Sophisticated New Computer Models Predict Details of Insurgent Attacks
How Do The World's Most War-Torn Countries Always Seem To Have A Toyota Dealership? Foreign PolicyChaos, confusion, and uncertainty have pervaded battle since Homer first described the din of clashing...
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Oak Ridge Labs Using World's Fastest Supercomputer to Model Next-Gen Nuclear...
Modeling Better Nuclear Plants TobinResearchers at Oak Ridge National Lab wanted to model and simulate the next generation of nuclear power facilities. While software that models a partial nuclear...
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NOAA Video Shows Earthquake Tremors Propagating Across the World
Ocean-Wide Waves This model from the Center for Tsunami Research at the NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory shows the expected wave heights of the tsunami as it travels across the Pacific...
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Computer Models Show that Towing an Iceberg to a Drought Area Could Actually...
Towing Icebergs to Fight Drought A 30-ton iceberg could provide water to half a million people for up to a year. Michael Haferkamp via WikimediaYou may have heard of this scheme before: during periods...
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Image-Recognition Algorithm Diagnoses Breast Cancer Better Than a Human...
Breast Cancer Imaging This image shows 18 breast cancer images adjacent to matching images that have been automatically labeled by image processing software. © Science/AAAS Add one more item to the...
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A Personal Simulation of Your Blood Could Help Doctors Study Disease
Simulated Platelets Simulated platelets seen under flow conditions in a virtual blood model. University of Pennsylvania Absent the creation of a personalized, living avatar, computer simulations will...
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Researchers Build First Complete Computer Model of an Entire Organism
Mycoplasma genitalium Science Photo LibraryTo conduct experiments, researchers can change a variable in an organism and watch the results unfold. But life is messy, and it's difficult to understand...
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India to Predict Monsoon Rains With Supercomputer Accuracy
Monsoon Rains Roll Over Mumbai Enygmatic-Halycon via WikimediaIn an effort to stay one step ahead of the summer monsoon season, Indian scientists are embarking on an ambitious and unprecedented...
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Simulated Gophers Explain Mysterious Mima Mounds
Mima Mounds South of Olympia, Washington Arthur M. Ritchie, Washington State Department of Natural Resources It’s one of those things that teachers in Washington state use to hook kids on science,...
View ArticleOak Ridge Labs Using World's Fastest Supercomputer to Model Next-Gen Nuclear...
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Lab wanted to model and simulate the next generation of nuclear power facilities. While software that models a partial nuclear core or…
View ArticleNOAA Video Shows Earthquake Tremors Propagating Across the World
Seismologists are putting together some impressive computer models of the devastating earthquake that struck Japan Friday. As the tragedy continues to unfold, it’s pretty…
View ArticleComputer Models Show that Towing an Iceberg to a Drought Area Could Actually...
You may have heard of this scheme before: during periods of serious drought, a huge tugboat or fleet of tugboats could be tethered to an iceberg and hauled to areas where…
View ArticleImage-Recognition Algorithm Diagnoses Breast Cancer Better Than a Human...
Add one more item to the list of things machines can do better than humans: Examine and diagnose breast cancer. Stanford researchers have developed new software that can…
View ArticleA Personal Simulation of Your Blood Could Help Doctors Study Disease
Absent the creation of a personalized, living avatar, computer simulations will go a long way toward helping doctors figure out what to do about your health. Sophisticated models will be able to look...
View ArticleResearchers Build First Complete Computer Model of an Entire Organism
To conduct experiments, researchers can change a variable in an organism and watch the results unfold. But life is messy, and it's difficult to understand the underlying…
View ArticleIndia to Predict Monsoon Rains With Supercomputer Accuracy
In an effort to stay one step ahead of the summer monsoon season, Indian scientists are embarking on an ambitious and unprecedented project to build computer models that will…
View ArticleSimulated Gophers Explain Mysterious Mima Mounds
It’s one of those things that teachers in Washington state use to hook kids on science, alongside salmon runs, hydropower plants and those weird sea stars with way too many…
View ArticleWhy The CDC Thinks 1.4 Million People Might Contract Ebola By February
Last June, the Kenema Government Hospital in Sierra Leone built a temporary ward in anticipation of an influx of Ebola patients. The makeshift building was covered with…
View Article3D Heart Simulation Predicts How Drugs Will Affect Your Heartbeat
Your heart might “skip a beat” if you’re frightened or you suddenly see a long-lost love, but in real life, an irregular heartbeat can be dangerous. If the heart can't pump…
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