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NEW MATERIALS. COMPOUNDS THAT VIOLATE TEXBOOK RULES- A CHEMISTRY REVOLUTION?

 "Most of what we know about textbook chemistry only applies to ambient conditions, or the default conditions that one normally finds on the surface of the Earth, says the team. So it's entirely possible that what's forbidden on the Earth's surface under ambient conditions, becomes possible when things become more extreme, or in the presence of high energy that causes energy balances to shift, they claim. More than just broadening existing views, the researchers anticipate that it will start a revolution, or at least a new chapter in chemistry."

SOURCE: Gizmag
      
http://www.gizmag.com/scientists-create-forbidden-compounds-table-salt/30520/

BRAIN- Ultrasound directed to the human brain can boost spatial resolution

"New noninvasive ways to treat neurological disorders

“The work by Jamie Tyler and his colleagues is at the forefront of the coming tsunami of developing new safe yet effective noninvasive ways to modulate the flow of information in cellular circuits within the living human brain,” said Michael Friedlander, executive director of the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute and a neuroscientist who specializes in brain plasticity.
“This approach is providing the technology and proof of principle for precise activation of neural circuits for a range of important uses, including potential treatments for neurodegenerative disorders, psychiatric diseases, and behavioral disorders.
“Moreover, it arms the neuroscientific community with a powerful new tool to explore the function of the healthy human brain, helping us understand cognition, decision-making, and thought. This is just the type of breakthrough called for in President Obama’s BRAIN Initiative to enable dramatic new approaches for exploring the functional circuitry of the living human brain and for treating Alzheimer’s disease and other disorders.”
In addition to his position at the institute, Tyler is an assistant professor of biomedical engineering and sciences at the Virginia Tech-Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences. In 2012, he shared a Technological Innovation Award from the McKnight Endowment for Neuroscience to work on developing ultrasound as a noninvasive tool for modulating brain activity. " SOURCE: kurzweilai.net

Ultrasound directed to the human brain can boost spatial resolution

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