Last year, Facebook bought the Oculus Rift technology, one of the most promising in the field of virtual reality. As Mark Zuckerberg himself, head of the social network, has stated, the goal is to improve the quality of our long-distance interactions.
The connections of the adult brain are difficult to modify, unlike what happens with the brain of the smallest, whose experiences are shaping and modifying their brain connections while it is developing. But is it possible to rejuvenate an adult brain and make it as flexible as when it is young? That is what a team of researchers from the University of California at Irvine (USA) have just achieved, as reported in the journal Neuron.
Just as in 1977 the gold discs with material from Earth were sent through the Voyager probe into space, NASA is considering sending a new message, this time in digital but with a similar amount of information: “maybe 100 images and about an hour of audio; we're writing a haiku, it's not a novel, ”explains Jon Lomberg, research leader and design director for the disks that were placed aboard NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft.
From a young age he already knew that he wanted to be a scientist, however he had no idea of the blows of air that would move the weather vane of his life in the future. Now he develops robots that operate alone and that can change the world of medicine. He tells us his story in the first person.
How does our brain work to keep the objects we see stable, even with our eyes moving? This was the starting point of the study carried out by a team of researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the Shiley Eye Institute (USA).
According to current instruments, the odds of finding a quadruple quasar are one in ten million. Given these figures, it is no wonder astronomers are surprised and fascinated to have discovered the first of them. The team of scientists responsible for the discovery has been led by Joseph Hennawi, from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (Germany).
In November 2013, a volcanic eruption raised a large land mass in the Pacific Ocean, about 1,000 kilometers south of Tokyo, eventually connecting with the nearby island of Nishinoshima in the Ogasawara archipelago. For the most part, the new 2.46-square-kilometer formation, which is still spreading, consists solely of rocks. Now a team of biologists has observed that although the outcrop is essentially a barren expanse, life can begin to colonize it from the droppings of seabirds.
On April 25, what has undoubtedly been the worst natural disaster in Nepal since 1934, has had a direct effect on the shape of the Earth. According to research by NASA's Earth Observatory, the earthquake measuring 7.9 degrees on the Richter scale has caused a fault located at the edges of the tectonic plates of India and Eurasia and 90x30 kilometers long, to have slipped up to six meters from its starting position.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
