The first study ever to prove that using a cell phoneincreases the risk of cancer has concluded in Sweden. Thestudy is considered relatively small, though it is thelargest of its kind ever to prove the connection betweencell phones and cancer.
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A 24 year old quadriplegic man plays computer games andchecks his email just by thinking about it thanks to a smallsensor surgically implanted into the man?s motor cortex.The tiny chip monitors signals sent from up to 100 neuronsat a time.
Cyberkinetics, a Massachusetts company, developed theminuscule BrainGate chip as an alternative to more difficultmethods used by quadriplegics to control their environment,usually with tongue or eye movements. These options areincredibly difficult to master, as well as entirelydependent on quality of muscle function, which in some casesof paralysis can be unreliable.
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Two scientists at UCLA are using brain scans to determinehow the minds of Republicans differ from those of Democrats.
Last month, Dr. Joshua Freedman and Dr. Marco Iocaboni usedfunctional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to monitorbrain activity of 10 Democrats and 10 Republicans whileshowing the subjects images of President Bush, John Kerry,and Ralph Nader.
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Asia is having some of its most violent weather everrecorded, and the latest typhoon to strike Japan hasgenerated the highest waves ever recorded in that country,and killed eighty people. The rash of earthquakes that hasaccompanied the typhoons are believed to be due, at least inpart, to the face that the entire country is literallywaterlogged, and wetness is causing instability in manyfaults, some of them inactive for thousands of years.
Typhoon Nock-Ten
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