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 Solar physicist David Hathaway has been looking at the sun every day since 1998, and every day, for six years has found sunspots. Sunspots are “islands” sized planets, which appear on the surface of the Sun are dark, cold, highly magnetized, and fleeting as a sunspot lasts only a few days or weeks before fading. As soon as one disappears, another emerges and takes its place.
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The Swiss Federal Laboratories for testing materials (EMPA) has created a violin having properties (acoustic and visual) similar to those of Stradivarius violins luthier in the 17th century. The instrument was presented in November 2008 the Swiss Innovation Forum ‘in Basel.
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72 years after his last major excavation at the site of Zhoukoudian, China has just launched on 24 June a new plan for excavation of the Peking Man. Located 50 km southwest of downtown Beijing, the site boasts the discovery of Sinanthropus, better known as “ Peking Man“. The launch of this new project coincides with the 80th anniversary of the discovery of the complete skull of Peking Man.
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 The University of Geneva opened its Brain and Behavior Laboratory (BBL). This complex brings together several research units in different disciplines in the fields of medicine and psychology. Their common point: their research topics are the brain and human behavior. The objective of this laboratory is to study the behavior, cognition, emotions and diseases affecting them. The main issues addressed are: How do human beings deal there emotions? How does it take a decision? What part is played by sleep and dreams in the mechanisms of memory and creativity? Other broader topics will be explored, including the neurobiological impact of diseases on the brain, the cognitive disorders or lack of sleep, or the influence of social and emotional on the brain.
The laboratory, an area of 400 m2, is equipped with sophisticated facilities and units to observe the brain in different ways: magnetic resonance imaging, electroencephalography laboratory, acoustic laboratory, Room search on sleep, virtual reality laboratory, and so on.
The BBL is a collaboration between the Medical Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Geneva, Interdisciplinary Center of Neuroscience, the Center interfaculataire affective science and national research center (PRN ) Affective Sciences. It is supported by the Academic Society of Geneva and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).
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How some of them to arrive they survive up to three days without oxygen? By producing an enzyme synthesizing lipids, meet scientists from the University of Geneva in an article published in the journal Science. Teams of professors Howard Riezman and Jean-Claude Martinou have examined the case of Caenorhabditis elegans. These worms are able to cope with three days of anoxia without adverse consequences for their organization.
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The University of Geneva opened its Brain and Behavior Laboratory (BBL). This complex brings together several research units in different disciplines in the fields of medicine and psychology. Their common point: their research topics are the brain and human behavior.