Smartphones are everywhere, everyone has one and most users can’t do without their mobile – but, it seems, some uses of the phones are stressful and evoke unwanted emotional responses.
A collaboration between the Victorian Life Sciences Computational Initiative (VLSCI) and the IBM Research Computational Biology Center will see a Blue Gene supercomputer installed at the University of Melbourne.
According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Allergan’s branded Botox and other such drugs will be required to have stronger warning messages on their labels after breathing and swallowing problems occurred, and after rare deaths and hospitalizations happened, all while the drug was being used for medical treatments.
Swedish neuroscientists have produced the phenomenon called “body-swap illusion” in experimental volunteers. A male, for instance, can experience the movements of a women’s hands like they were his own.
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, are using computerized brain scans to “reconstruct a picture of a person’s visual experience”—that is, a rudimentary ability to read minds.
A new U.S. study has shown fruit flies have a brain chemical just like humans that controls sleep. The discovery may help people solve their insomnia and other sleep problems.