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Digital Worlds Can Help Autistic Children to Develop Social Skills
October 21, 2011 — The benefits of virtual worlds can be used to help autistic children develop social skills beyond their anticipated levels, suggest early findings from new research. Researchers have developed an ... > full story -
Number of Facebook Friends Linked to Size of Brain Regions, Study Suggests
October 20, 2011 — Scientists have found a direct link between the number of "Facebook friends" a person has and the size of particular brain regions. In a new study researchers also showed that the more Facebook ... > full story -
Lightning Strikes, in the Form of Bits and Bytes
October 19, 2011 — Scientists are utilizing a superfast computer system for simulating lightning strikes. Their objectives are arriving at better understandings of the effects of lightning strikes on humans and ... > full story -
Differing Structures Underlie Differing Brain Rhythms in Healthy and Ill, Virtual Modeling Reveals
October 14, 2011 — Virtual brains modeling epilepsy and schizophrenia display less complexity among functional connections, and other differences compared to healthy brain models, researchers report. The researchers ... > full story -
Talk to the Virtual Hands: Body Language of Both Speaker and Listener Affects Success in Virtual Reality Communication Game
October 12, 2011 — New research finds that the lack of gestural information from both speaker and listener limits successful communication in virtual ... > full story -
Monkeys 'Move and Feel' Virtual Objects Using Only Their Brains
October 5, 2011 — In a first ever demonstration of a two-way interaction between a primate brain and a virtual body, two trained monkeys learned to employ brain activity alone to move an avatar hand and identify the ... > full story -
Form Follows Family -- Not Function: Humans and Chimpanzees Have Similar Long Bone Shape
October 4, 2011 — Although humans and chimpanzees move quite differently, muscle attachment sites at their thighbones are similar. This result has major consequences for the interpretation of fossil hominin ... > full story -
Virtual Reality Worm-Tracking Challenge Leads to New Tool for Brain Research
October 3, 2011 — Using new optical equipment, researchers put roundworms into a world of virtual reality, monitored both their behavior and brain activity and gained unexpected information on how the organism's brain ... > full story -
Virtual Fly-Through Bronchoscopy Yields Real Results
October 3, 2011 — For patients with non-small cell lung cancer the accurate determination of the lymph node status before therapy is critical to develop an individualized treatment plan. Research from the October ... > full story -
3-D Microscope Opens Eyes to Prehistoric Oceans and Present-Day Resources
September 20, 2011 — A research team has turned their newly developed 3-D microscope technology on ancient sea creatures and hopes to expand its ... > full story
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