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What does the number represent in the isotope platinum-194? Exploring The Invisible Universe That Lives On Us — And In Us : Shots - Health News. Fall 2013 Courses. Brandeis University. When applying to Brandeis University, it's important to note the application deadline is January 1, and the early decision deadline is November 1.

Brandeis University

Scores for either the ACT or SAT test are due January 1. The application fee at Brandeis University is $75. It is more selective, with an acceptance rate of 39.1 percent. For more information about the tests, essays, interviews, and admissions process, visit the Applying to College knowledge center. Applications Requirements. Pdfs/ansinet/ijps/2008/85-88. Osmotic Pressure. Diffusion and Osmosis. Fabian Oefner: Psychedelic science. But I'm A Nice Guy. 10 Reasons Why Tesla Is a Scientific God" Teenage Brain Development" In adults, various parts of the brain work together to evaluate choices, make decisions and act accordingly in each situation.

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JustForFun/Examples of Myers-Briggs Personalities in Stories. Colliding Galaxies. There are many instances where galaxies appear to be interacting with each other enough to cause obvious distortions of the galaxies that interact.

Colliding Galaxies

These interactions may have a significant connections with the manner in which galaxies evolve with time. Example: Arp 273 Interacting Galaxies The adjacent pair of interacting spiral galaxies in the constellation Andromeda at a distance of about 200 million light years is called Arp 273 (Source). The larger galaxy at the upper left is strongly tidally distorted. Elizabeth Blackwell Biography. Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman to graduate from medical school in the United States.

Elizabeth Blackwell Biography

She became a leading public health activist during her lifetime. Synopsis Elizabeth Blackwell was born February 3, 1821, near Bristol, England. She moved with her family to the United States when she was 11. Despite opposition from both fellow students and the public, she became the first woman to graduate from medical school in the United States. Profile. Www.fwrsef.org/attachments/2013-rules.pdf. Epigenetics makes you unique: Courtney Griffin @ TEDxOU. This shrimp packs a punch. The peacock mantis is colored olive green, orange and red, with leopard spots on its deadly forelimbs.

This shrimp packs a punch

Adult members of this species can chip or even smash the glass of an aquarium. Roy Caldwell Mantis shrimp are related to crabs and lobsters. They come in a gorgeous array of colors. A juvenile mantis shrimp swims with its killer limbs folded and at the ready. A female Gonodactylaceus glabrous mantis shrimp. Mantis shrimp have an amazingly complex vision system. Poor concentration: Poverty reduces brainpower needed for navigating other areas of life. Poverty and all its related concerns require so much mental energy that the poor have less remaining brainpower to devote to other areas of life, according to research based at Princeton University.

Poor concentration: Poverty reduces brainpower needed for navigating other areas of life

As a result, people of limited means are more likely to make mistakes and bad decisions that may be amplified by -- and perpetuate -- their financial woes. Published in the journal Science, the study presents a unique perspective regarding the causes of persistent poverty. CytoComp a revolutionary biological computer.

You only have 4,000 weeks of existence. Use them wisely. BioDigital Human: Explore the Body in 3D! Science Daily: News & Articles in Science, Health, Environment & Technology. Electrical signatures of consciousness in the dying brain. The "near-death experience" reported by cardiac arrest survivors worldwide may be grounded in science, according to research at the University of Michigan Health System.

Electrical signatures of consciousness in the dying brain

Whether and how the dying brain is capable of generating conscious activity has been vigorously debated. But in this week's PNAS Early Edition, a U-M study shows shortly after clinical death, in which the heart stops beating and blood stops flowing to the brain, rats display brain activity patterns characteristic of conscious perception. "This study, performed in animals, is the first dealing with what happens to the neurophysiological state of the dying brain," says lead study author Jimo Borjigin, Ph.D., associate professor of molecular and integrative physiology and associate professor of neurology at the University of Michigan Medical School.

"It will form the foundation for future human studies investigating mental experiences occurring in the dying brain, including seeing light during cardiac arrest," she says. What Really Prompts The Dog's 'Guilty Look' Are Dogs 'Kids?' Owner-dog relationships share striking similarities to parent-child relationships. People have an innate need to establish close relationships with other people.

Are Dogs 'Kids?' Owner-dog relationships share striking similarities to parent-child relationships

But this natural bonding behaviour is not confined to humans: many animals also seem to need relationships with others of their kind. For domesticated animals the situation is even more complex and pets may enter deep relationships not only with conspecifics but also with their owners. Scientists at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna (Vetmeduni Vienna) have investigated the bond between dogs and their owners and have found striking similarities to the parent-child relationship in humans.

Their findings are published in the journal PLOS ONE. Domestic dogs have been closely associated with humans for about 15,000 years. How turtles got their shells: Fossil of extinct South African reptile provides clues. May 30, 2013 — Through careful study of an ancient ancestor of modern turtles, researchers now have a clearer picture of how the turtles' most unusual shell came to be.

How turtles got their shells: Fossil of extinct South African reptile provides clues

The findings, reported on May 30 in Current Biology , a Cell Press publication, help to fill a 30- to 55-million-year gap in the turtle fossil record through study of an extinct South African reptile known as Eunotosaurus . "The turtle shell is a complex structure whose initial transformations started over 260 million years ago in the Permian period," says Tyler Lyson of Yale University and the Smithsonian.

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