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  Japan's 'K Computer' Ranks No. 1 in Four Benchmarks at HPC Challenge Awards

  November 16, 2011 — RIKEN, the University of Tsukuba, and Fujitsu Limited have announced that they received top-ranking in all four benchmarks for the performance results of the "K computer" at the 2011 HPC Challenge ... > full story
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  Looks Do Matter in Job Interviews, According to New Study

  November 9, 2011 — People with birthmarks, scars and other facial disfigurements are more likely to receive poor ratings in job interviews, according to a new ... > full story
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  Young Woman With Amnesia Unable to Hold a Single Face in Short-Term Memory ... Unless It's Paris Hilton!

  November 9, 2011 — A 22-year-old woman known as "HC" with amnesia since birth as a result of developing only half the normal volume of the hippocampus in her brain, has demonstrated to scientists that the ability to ... > full story
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  Can Metals Remember Their Shape at Nanoscale, Too?

  November 8, 2011 — Physicists have now visualized changes in shape memory materials down to the nanometric ... > full story
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  Psychologists Stress the Importance of Memory in Preventing Relapse After Therapy

  November 4, 2011 — Addictions, phobias, post-traumatic stress disorder -- such painful and harmful problems are recalcitrant to treatment. In the clinic, a person may suppress the association between the stimulus and ... > full story
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  How We Create False Memories: Assessing Memory Performance in Older Adults

  November 4, 2011 — A new study addresses the influence of age-related stereotypes on memory performance and memory errors in older ... > full story
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  New Components for Future Computer Memories

  November 3, 2011 — The European TRAMS (terascale reliable adaptive memory systems) consortium investigates the impact of statistical NanoCMOS variability on terascale embedded static random-access memories (SRAMs) ... > full story
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  Hippocampus Plays Bigger Memory Role Than Previously Thought

  November 1, 2011 — In a pair of new studies, researchers report a new methodology that more deeply parses how and where certain types of memories are processed in the brain, and challenges earlier assumptions about the ... > full story
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  Hormone in Birth Control Shot Linked to Memory Loss

  November 1, 2011 — The birth control shot Depo Provera offers a convenient alternative for women who don't want to remember to take a daily pill. Ironically, new research has shown the shot actually may impair a ... > full story
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  Nerve Protein Linked to Learning and Memory

  October 31, 2011 — Biology professors have found the protein tomosyn plays an important role in regulating neurotransmitter between synapses, and consequently plays a role in longer-term memory and learning. The ... > full story

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