Category: Self
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The tower, self-assembly, Self...
A tower which builds itself is absurd, however in the nano world self-assembly is reality. Physicists have investigated how to control the ordering of such self-assembling structures at the nano-scale. Physicists investigated how they can control the ordering of such self-assembling structures and found out how to switch the assembly process on and off. (1)…
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Saving time, heart attacks, doing nothing...
Switching over to daylight saving time, and losing one hour of sleep, raised the risk of having a heart attack the following Monday by 25 percent, compared to other Mondays during the year, according to a new U.S. study. By contrast, heart attack risk fell 21 percent later in the year, on the Tuesday after…
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The Sting II - The deaf composer trick: Meet you!
A celebrated composer hailed as a "Japanese Beethoven" for creating hit symphonies despite his deafness has been exposed as a fraud, after confessing another musician wrote his most acclaimed works. (1) Being true is really hard. But whatever you do, you will never be able to get away from the most strict judge: Yourself. (or,…
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Brain, body, DNA, "uniqueness"...
It was once thought that each cell in a person's body possesses the same DNA code and that the particular way the genome is read imparts cell function and defines the individual. For many cell types in our bodies, however, that is an oversimplification. Studies of neuronal genomes published in the past decade have turned…
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Rubber hand, "reality", perception…
First demonstrated over 14 years ago, the rubber hand illusion has proven a valuable tool for investigating how the brain combines information from different senses – including proprioception, the body's sense of its own position – to create our sense of bodily ownership. Fifteen volunteers took part in an experiment in which one of their…
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