Intrinsitivity

The World Question Center 2009

“What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?”

Bored? Your brain is disconnecting – life – 10 December 2008 – New Scientist

Attention is like a communication amplifier that only focuses on the connections between certain regions at certain times, says Weissman. When the amplifier switches to a new set of connections, existing ones weaken. Communication between those regions slows and attention lapses.

Engineers pave way to ‘artificial nose’

MIT biological engineers have found a way to mass-produce smell receptors in the laboratory, an advance that paves the way for “artificial noses” to be created and used in a variety of settings.