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Book Excerpt from When Brains Dream
Robert Stickgold and Antonio Zadra | Dec 1, 2020 | 8 min read
Ferreting out the biological function of dreaming is a frontier in neuroscience.
Dr. Mom
Vanessa Fogg | Aug 21, 2008 | 4 min read
A new book explores the challenges of balancing motherhood and a career in science
Book Excerpt from Swearing is Good for You
Emma Byrne | Jan 23, 2018 | 5 min read
In chapter 1, “The Bad Language Brain: Neuroscience and Swearing,” author Emma Byrne sets the scene for her book by telling the story of the hapless and potty-mouthed Phineas Gage.
A New Way of Seeing
M. Joan Dawson | Sep 1, 2013 | 3 min read
Inspiration and controversy attended the birth of magnetic resonance imaging, a diagnostic technology that changed the course of human medicine.
Opinion: Making Room for Rising Stars
Brad Fenwick | Sep 3, 2013 | 4 min read
Dealing with the delicate matter of retirement for aging academics
Industry vs Academia
The Scientist Staff | Apr 15, 2001 | 10+ min read
To conduct this survey, The Scientist invited 1800 readers via E-mail to respond to a web-based survey form. There were a total of 220 responses from March 2 to 12, 2001, a response rate of 12.2%. Have you held research positions in both academia and industry? (Positions may include graduate research, industrial internships, or any other research positions - paid or unpaid - in both work environments).   Percent Count Answers 72.6% 159/219 Yes 27.4% 60/219 No
This image depicts the fruit fly nerve cord connectome. It highlights 930 neurons, a subset of the full set of reconstructed neurons.
The Expansion of Volume Electron Microscopy
Danielle Gerhard, PhD | Sep 8, 2023 | 6 min read
A series of technological advancements for automation and parallel imaging made volume electron microscopy more user friendly while increasing throughput.
Neuroaesthetics
Anjan Chatterjee | May 1, 2014 | 10+ min read
Researchers unravel the biology of beauty and art.
What Proxmire's Golden fleece Did For--And To--Science
Robert Irion | Dec 11, 1988 | 6 min read
In early 1975, psychologist Ronald Hutchinson was proceeding smoothly with studies investigating why rats, monkeys, and humans clench their jaws. The work, bankrolled to the tune of $500,000 by several federal agencies over a decade, had placed Hutchinson at the forefront of research into the biological causes of aggression. But that April, a fiscally conscious legislator from Wisconsin skewered the research with a “Golden Fleece Award,” the second ever, designed to he bestowed mon
Concord And Conflicts Blur Science And Invention
Fred Cowan | Mar 29, 1998 | 6 min read
The United States patent system, as envisioned by Benjamin Franklin and provided for in the Constitution, has a mandate to stimulate innovation and commerce to benefit society. To accomplish this, inventors obtain patents to protect intellectual-property rights by creating temporary monopolies to market inventions without competition. A major tenet that "Basic research is the source of fundamental knowledge that eventually leads to innovation, technology development, and economic growth" (Rep.

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