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Brain, body and mind: understanding consciousness
This isn’t new technology – the first animal EEG was published a century ago – but computational neuroscientist Chennu has come up with a way of combining its output with a branch of maths called graph...
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Will we ever stop using fossil fuels?
In recent years, proponents of clean energy have taken heart in the falling prices of solar and wind power, hoping they will drive an energy revolution. But a new study co-authored by an MIT professor...
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Chemically Storing Solar Power
Scientists at TU Wien (Vienna) have now developed a new concept: By combining highly specialised new materials, they have managed to combine high temperature photovoltaics with an electrochemical cell....
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Ο οίκος των Αχαιμενιδών
Το ερέθισμα των Περσικών πολέμων (502-449 π.Χ) και η ανέλπιστη νίκη των Ελλήνων, έβγαλαν την κυρίως Ελλάδα από την πολιτισμική αφάνεια και την γεωπολιτική ανυπαρξία, στην οποία είχε βυθισθεί μετά τον...
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The Origin of Worlds: Astrophysicists Zero in on How Planets Form
THE SECRETS OF PLANET FORMATION are becoming harder to keep. In November, using a new observing method, scientists snapped the very first pictures of an extrasolar planet still gathering up mass from...
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The world’s newest atom-smasher achieves its ‘first turns’
One of the world's top particle accelerators has reached a milestone, achieving its "first turns" — circulating beams of particles for the first time — and opening a new window into the universe, a...
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Specific brain areas found to be linked to depression
Damage in specific brain structures has been found to be associated with a greater risk of depressive symptoms in late life according to research from the University of Aberdeen.__University of Aberdeen
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Mystery on the marsh
A newly discovered Anglo-Saxon island is one of the most important archaeological finds in decades.__The University of Sheffield
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“A load of old rot”: fossil of oldest known land-dweller identified
The earliest example of an organism living on land – an early type of fungus – has been identified. The organism, from 440 million years ago, likely kick-started the process of rot and soil formation,...
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Scientists «break the ice» on organ banking
Hebrew University researchers develop a solution for long-term preservation of cells and organs for transplant, as part of a global alliance to bank organs__The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Τα Κοινά και οι Ηγεμονίες στην αρχαία Ελλάδα
Τα αρχαία Ελληνικά κράτη και τα Έθνη ήταν ιεραρχημένα ανάλογα με τη γεωπολιτική βαρύτητα του καθενός, ενώ παράλληλα και ανεξάρτητα από τις μεταξύ τους σχέσεις, διατηρούσαν υπό κανονικές συνθήκες...
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Regular aspirin use found to protect against overall cancer risk
An analysis of data from two major, long-term epidemiologic studies finds that the regular use of aspirin significantly reduces the overall risk of cancer, a reduction that primarily reflects a lower...
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Blue Brain and the Allen Institute created virtual neurons
Today, the US-based Allen Institute is releasing a set of 40 computer models of neurons from the mouse visual cortex, created using tools developed by the Swiss-based Blue Brain Project at EPFL. _EPFL
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Smart socks to revolutionise diabetic care
Doctors will be able to remotely monitor diabetic people for a potentially life-threatening condition thanks to the development of socks which measure foot temperature. Research by Nottingham Trent...
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Health—an explicit human right
“The past year severely tested the international system's capacity to respond to crises and mass forced displacements of people, and found it woefully inadequate.” So begins Amnesty International's...
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Macabre variety of Iron Age burial practices
Unusual and macabre burial practices used by Iron Age Britons have been discovered by researchers from the Natural History Museum and Cardiff University.__Cardiff University
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Scientists develop very early stage human stem cell lines for first time
Scientists at the University of Cambridge have for the first time shown that it is possible to derive from a human embryo so-called ‘naïve’ pluripotent stem cells – one of the most flexible types of...
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Αδαείς ειδήμονες
Το 202 π.Χ ο Αννίβας ηττήθηκε από τον Σκιπίωνα τον Αφρικανό στην μάχη της Ζάμα. Ήταν η πρώτη ήττα του Καρχηδόνιου στρατηγού από τους Ρωμαίους, μετά την οποία κατέφυγε στις Ελληνιστικές αποικίες στην...
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Amputee Feels Texture with a Bionic Fingertip
An amputee feels rough or smooth textures in real-time — in his phantom hand — using an artificial fingertip connected to nerves in the arm. The advancement will accelerate the development of touch...
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Ο Ηρόδοτος ομιλεί για έναν «περίφημο Έλληνα γιατρό».
Ομιλία που εκφωνήθηκε στην τελετή έναρξης του 21ου Ετήσιου Συνεδρίου της Διαβητολογικής Εταιρείας Βόρειας Ελλάδας, από τον Ομότιμο καθηγητή Α.Π.Θ. Κύριο Δ. Λυπουρλή. Ελληνικά Διαβητολογικά Χρονικά...
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