Obama Pledges $3 Billion to Map the Entire Human Brain

http://newsdoors.blogspot.com/2013/02/obama-pledges-3-billion-to-map-entire.html A new project to map the activity of the human brain could receive more than $3 billion dollars in federal funds in President Obama’s upcoming budget proposal. A large-scale effort to...

Have Cognitive Map Will Take the Shortcut

By Katherine Smith Do animals have cognitive mapping abilities? A cognitive map is a powerful memory of landmarks which allows novel short-cutting to occur. [1] Bart (pictured on the right) and Katherine visit UCLA on October 6 and demonstrate novel short-cutting...

Royal Navy's sonar testing may have killed dolphins off Cornish coast

Investigators may have found the cause of the mysterious mass dolphin deaths in the UK. Some special testing by the Royal Navy may have killed them."The Royal Navy had been testing sonar equipment only miles from the bay where dozens of dolphins met an agonising death.Another...

Burma cyclone: Mapping the aftermath

A picture worth than thousand words. This map graphic story from BBC news site give us a clear picture about the cyclone-hit Burma. Have a look at this graphic story, how the cyclone has affected the lives of hundred of thousands people souls."The cyclone that hit Burma on 3...

Microsoft buys UK mapping service

"Microsoft has bought online mapping company Multimap to expand its web business, the US firm said. Multimap, which was established in 1996, is among the UK's top 10 visited websites, receiving more than 10 million users each month. Microsoft hopes that the acquisition "will...