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#BigQuestions

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 8 segundos
#BigQuestions Updated on Thursday What’s the most important question about life that science needs to answer? Voting is now open! Cast your votes through a ‘like’ or ‘comment’ on as many images as you’d like. Voting ends Friday 21 March at 23:59 GMT. Help us spread the word by sharing this album or tweeting using#BigQuestions. The question with the most votes will become the theme for a live discussion, broadcast on Google+ in early April. To find out more visit the Mosaic blog: http://blog.mosaicscience.com/ Mosaic science added 25 photos to the album #BigQuestions. March 6 [image: P... mais »

abNormal?,,,

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 22 minutos
abNormal: the science of being different Warning: viewers may no longer feel normal after watching this film. 4 March 2014 Are you normal? What does it mean to be normal? Is it a good thing, or does it mean you’re just plain dull? Is being abnormal more fun, does it make us seem more kooky, quirky, individual – or could it mean we’re cut off from society, perceived as odd or even mentally ill? *http://mosaicscience.com/extra/abnormal-transcript*

AD

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 22 minutos
[image: The Alzheimer's enigma - illustration by Tom Gauld] © Tom Gauld/Heart The Alzheimer’s enigma The cause of Alzheimer’s disease has troubled the science world’s best detectives. Michael Regnier asks: can such a mystery really be solved if we gather enough clues? an interview with dandelion-haired cognitive scientist Steven Pinker, an excellent piece on whether it will ever be possible to understand Alzheimer's disease

Big Bang

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 47 minutos
Dead Pigeons and the Universe's Birth: 5 Weird Facts About Big Bang Theory By Miriam Kramer, Staff Writer | February 26, 2014 [image: The Big Bang: Solid Theory, But Mysteries Remain] This NASA graphic shows the universe as it evolved from the big bang to now. Goddard scientists believe that the universe expanded from subatomic scales to the astronomical in a fraction of a second after its birth. Credit: NASA/WMAP View full size image CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — It has been 50 years since two scientists found landmark evidence for the Big Bang theory. Robert Wilson and Arno Penzias were usin... mais »

Implante cardíaco em IT

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 2 dias
*Artigo selecionado por nosso neto Antônio Achutti Olivé *[image: Foto do perfil de Antonio Olivé]Implante cardíaco feito em impressora 3D pode salvar vidasAlém de bombear o sangue, a membrana fabricada com impressora 3D é capaz de monitorar a atividade cardíaca e diagnósticar doenças [image: Size_80_saulo-pereira-guimaraes] Saulo Pereira Guimarães, de Siga-me James Byard / Universidade de Washington [image: Efimov com pesquisadora em laboratório da Universidade de Washington] Efimov e sua equipe: coração artificial feito sob medida na impressora 3D São Paulo - Cientistas e *médicos* ... mais »

John Ridley Stroop

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 2 dias
*Stroop test* [image: Stroop effect test]

Controle de DCNT

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 2 dias
*Bibliografia:* Inúmeras publicações estão acessíveis através da internet valorizando as DCNT, utilizando o método epidemiológico e estratégias que tiveram sucesso no controle das DT . · *WHO Global Forum: Addressing the challenge of noncommunicable diseases (Moscow, 27 April, 2011) * · *First Global Ministerial Conference on Healthy Lifestyles and NCDs Control (Moscow, 28-29 April, 2011)* · *UN General Assembly High-level Meeting on the Prevention and Control of NCDs (New York, 19-20 September, 2011)** h* *ttp://www.who.int/nmh/publications/9789241597418/... mais »

Archeo Virus

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 3 dias
30,000-year-old giant virus 'comes back to life'[image: Rebecca Morelle]By Rebecca MorelleScience reporter, BBC World Service [image: Pithovirus sibericum]The virus was inactive for more than 30,000 years until it was revived in a laboratory in France Continue reading the main storyRelated Stories - Arctic icy lakes lose thickness - Arctic methane 'economic time bomb - Siberia permafrost thaw warning An ancient virus has "come back to life" after lying dormant for at least 30,000 years, scientists say. It was found frozen in a deep layer of the Siberian permafrost, but aft... mais »

Equilíbrio

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 4 dias
*How wolves chang the rivers* [image: cid:image001.png@01CF36E8.AC738C40]

BLOGs

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 4 dias
*Wordpress. com* *...............* The blog’s the thing We were joined this month by no fewer than 1,670,000 new sites and blogs — that’s almost three times the population of Wyoming. Welcome, welcome, welcome. Old bloggers or new, you set to work with zeal: you wrote nearly 40,000,000 posts this month (if each stood for an hour, it would be enough time to walk to the sun — and back). You made sure not to miss a beat by tapping away on your devices: 2,230,000 posts were published on iPhones and iPads, about a million on your Android devices, and nearly 200,000 came from the BlackBerr... mais »

2014 WCCC Melbourne

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 4 dias
http://www.world-heart-federation.org/congress-and-events/world-congress-of-cardiology-scientific-sessions-2014/congress-newsletter [image: Congress Banner]

Editing DNA

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 4 dias
A Powerful New Way to Edit DNA By ANDREW POLLACKMARCH 3, 2014 In the late 1980s, scientists at Osaka University in Japan noticed unusual repeated DNA sequences next to a gene they were studying in a common bacterium. They mentioned them in the final paragraph of a paper: “The biological significance of these sequences is not known.” Now their significance is known, and it has set off a scientific frenzy. The sequences, it turns out, are part of a sophisticated immune system that bacteria use to fight viruses. And that system, whose very existence was unknown until about seven years ago... mais »

Valvular Heart Disease

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 4 dias
Valvular Heart Disease Guidance IssuedTranscatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has been incorporated into the updated valvular heart disease guideline s from the American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology. Read more

Global Health Diplomacy

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 4 dias
Executive Course on Global Health Diplomacy*16 - 20 June 2014* *Course Director: Professor Ilona Kickbusch* Background Diplomacy is undergoing profound changes in the 21st century – and global health is one of the areas where this is most apparent. The negotiation processes that shape and manage the global policy environment for health are increasingly conducted not only between public health experts representing health ministries of nation states but include many other major players at the national level and in the global arena. These include philanthropists and public-private playe... mais »

Oldest documents

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 5 dias
ALAN BOYLE NOVEMBER 10, 2013 [image: 10]10 Oldest Surviving Documents Of Their Type Writing things down is one of the most important innovations in human history. As well as being able to spread ideas accurately across distance and time, writing also provided the records needed for law to function. Documents have literally changed the world, and some of them have survived for hundreds or even thousands of years. Every type of document provides a unique window into our shared heritage as human beings, in ways that are both surprising and fascinating./.../

Teen Depression

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 5 dias
Test 'predicts' teen depression riskBy James GallagherHealth and science reporter, BBC News [image: Unhappy teenager]The findings identify risk of clinical depression among boys but not girls Continue reading the main storyRelated Stories - Depression 'speeds ageing process' - Depression risk 'starts in the womb' - Global impact of depression revealed A tool for predicting the risk of clinical depression in teenage boys has been developed by researchers. Looking for high levels of the stress hormone cortisol and reports of feeling miserable, lonely or unloved could find th... mais »

Sleep and gray matter

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 5 dias
Poor Sleep in Gulf War Vets May Be Tied to Brain Changes Researchers say problem seems to be linked with less gray matter, which controls memory, thinking By Mary Elizabeth Dallas Friday, February 28, 2014 [image: HealthDay news image] Related MedlinePlus Pages - Brain Diseases - Sleep Disorders - Veterans and Military Health FRIDAY, Feb. 28, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- There may be a link between poor sleep quality and reduced gray matter in the brains of Gulf War veterans, a new study suggests. Using MRI scans and a sleep quality assessment, researchers found that sleep distur... mais »

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