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Can we control the electrical activity in our brains?

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If they can achieve this in mice, they will then turn their attention to the much greater challenge of applying this in humans. “It Two areas of overlapping colours show the primary and secondary whisker areas. First discovered in the 1960s by Dr Osamu Shimomura, GFP has revolutionised many fields of science. Pinterest.

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Modelling minds: can computers mimic human intelligence?

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This relies on the capacity for cognitive control — the ability to take an instruction (or internal intention) and use it to override a strongly learnt association or instinctive reflex to achieve a different goal (e.g., It feels like you are doing physics or chemistry experiments, but with the brain!

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The power of geographic information systems: bringing data to life with maps

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Dr Elsa Anderson Role: Assistant Professor, Programme in Environmental Science Institution: Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) I teach an urban ecology class that aims to engage students in learning about nature where they live and understanding the interactions between people and their surroundings.

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The Story Continues: Announcing Version 14 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica

Stephen Wolfram

So many discoveries, so many inventions, so much achieved, so much learned. And key to everything we do is leveraging what we have already done—often taking what in earlier years was a pinnacle of technical achievement, and now using it as a routine building block to reach a level that could barely even be imagined before.

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