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• Newly identified galactic supercluster is home to the Milky Way
• Direct brain-to-brain communication demonstrated in human subjects
• Scientists discover how to 'switch off' autoimmune diseases
• Cockatoos go to carpentry school
• Modern population boom traced to pre-industrial roots
• 'Brain' in a dish acts as autopilot, living computer

Newly identified galactic supercluster is home to the Milky Way Posted: 03 Sep 2014 10:33 AM PDT Astronomers using the Green Bank Telescope -- among other telescopes -- have determined that our own Milky Way galaxy is part of a newly identified ginormous supercluster of galaxies, which they have dubbed 'Laniakea,' which means 'immense heaven' in Hawaiian.

Direct brain-to-brain communication demonstrated in human subjects Posted: 03 Sep 2014 07:56 AM PDT In a first-of-its-kind study, an international team of neuroscientists and robotics engineers has demonstrated the viability of direct brain-to-brain communication in humans.

Scientists discover how to 'switch off' autoimmune diseases Posted: 03 Sep 2014 06:21 AM PDT Scientists have made an important breakthrough in the fight against debilitating autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis by revealing how to stop cells attacking healthy body tissue. Rather than the body's immune system destroying its own tissue by mistake, researchers have discovered how cells convert from being aggressive to actually protecting against disease.

Cockatoos go to carpentry school Posted: 02 Sep 2014 05:53 PM PDT Goffin's cockatoos can learn how to make and use wooden tools from each other, a new study has found. The discovery is thought to be the first controlled experimental evidence for the social transmission of tool use in any bird species.

Modern population boom traced to pre-industrial roots Posted: 02 Sep 2014 08:47 AM PDT The foundation of the human population explosion, commonly attributed to a sudden surge in industrialization and public health during the 18th and 19th centuries, was actually laid as far back as 2,000 years ago, suggests an extended model of detailed demographic and archeological data.

'Brain' in a dish acts as autopilot, living computer Posted: 22 Oct 2004 07:46 AM PDT A University of Florida scientist has grown a living "brain" that can fly a simulated plane, giving scientists a novel way to observe how brain cells function as a network. The "brain" -- a collection of 25,000 living neurons, or nerve cells, taken from a rat's brain and cultured inside a glass dish -- gives scientists a unique real-time window into the brain at the cellular level.

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