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Back to the Future: How the Brain "Sees" the Future

ScientificAmerican.com January 2, 2007

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Researchers at Washington
University in St. Louis found that
the human mind taps into the same
parts of the brain while imagining
the future as it does when
recollecting the past. This means
that the brain apparently predicts
the course of future events by
imagining them taking place much
like similar past...

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The DNA so dangerous it does not exist

NewScientistSpace Jan. 3, 2007

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Boise State University researchers
are searching for "primes": DNA
sequences and chains of amino acids
so dangerous to life that they do
not exist. They have identified more
than 60,000 primes of 15 nucleotides
in length and 746 protein
"peptoprime" strings of five amino
acids that have never been reported
in any species, and that represent
the...

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