Imperial Valley News Center
Researchers measure concussion forces in greatest detail yet
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- Written by Bjorn Carey
Stanford, California - More than 40 million people worldwide suffer from concussions each year, but scientists are just beginning to understand the traumatic forces that cause the injury.
Resolving to be ‘smart about my smartphone’ in 2015
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- Written by Cathy Cockrell
Berkeley, California - What does checking your work email in the wee hours say about you? It depends who you ask.
To trigger body’s energy-burning brown fat, just chill
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- Written by Sarah Yang
Berkeley, California - Those who overindulged during the holidays may want to get a shot of cold air to kick-start some extra fat-burning activity for the new year.
How songbirds may help build a better hearing aid
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- Written by Kate Rix
Berkeley, California - Untreated hearing loss can have devastating and alienating repercussions on a person’s life: isolation, depression, sapped cognition, even dementia.
Toward quantum chips
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- Written by Larry Hardesty
Cambridge, Massachusetts - A team of researchers has built an array of light detectors sensitive enough to register the arrival of individual light particles, or photons, and mounted them on a silicon optical chip. Such arrays are crucial components of devices that use photons to perform quantum computations.
Undaunted by the unknown
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- Written by Julia Sklar
Cambridge, Massachusetts - MIT senior Katie Bodner thrives in fields that are full of unanswered questions: She arrived at the Institute with little research experience, and from a family with no scientists, but now a biological engineering major, she has found her place working on projects in synthetic biology, biological-based pharmaceuticals, and programmable vaccines.
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