This is the interesting question posed by a team of eminent scientists in the latest issue of Nature magazine ( "Toward the responsible use of medicines that improve the cognitive ability). The question is not a matter of rhetoric or science fiction, since several drugs capable of improving cognitive ability (yes, in a modest way) are already being used, and in bulk in some campuses. The intelligence pill is already here.
Most are employed modalfinil, Ritalin and Adderall. The first is used to c...
For the first time in history, a group of Japanese scientists has successfully displayed on a screen a person's thoughts. For now it is simple images, but the very fact of having managed to interpret a human thought and move to a monitor graphically represents a huge discovery for neuroscience. The scope of this news can only be appreciated when we really understand the enormous possibilities that are opened before our eyes. This is undoubtedly one of the most interesting news of the end of...
One of the most dreaded diseases of the story has just come across a team of doctors who have discovered a potential weakness with which to tackle the disease. The scientists have clarified how metastasis occurs because of an above and declare that they could stop the process and slow the disease. This new development could represent a new landmark in the definitive cure for cancer. To understand how cancer works, we must take into account two of its most deadly mechanisms. On the one hand the a...
Jane Lubchenco accused Bush of not respecting science PISCO led a consortium for the understanding of ocean systems Obama was elected to the leadership of the Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the U.S. (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, for its acronym in English), an organization that does much of the government on global warming research, the respected marine biologist Jane Lubchenco. Ecologists in Action in a post welcomes this decision which is surprising because...
South Korea will cooperate in building the world's largest telescope, which has already begun to build in the Chilean Andes in order to understand the formation and evolution of the universe, Yonhap reported today. The Institute of Astronomy and Space Science of Korea (KASI) said today that it has received 1850 billion won (14.2 million dollars) from the South Korean government to participate in the construction of the Great Magellan Telescope (GMT). If South Korea eventually form part of t...
