Recent studies suggest that a shared neural ensemble may link distinct memories encoded close in time. According to the memory allocation hypothesis, learning triggers a temporary increase in neuronal excitability that biases the representation of a subsequent memory to the neuronal ensemble encoding the first memory, such that recall of one memory increases the likelihood of recalling the other memory. Here we show in...
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UW researchers’ robot hand comes creepily close to human functionality
You’ve got to hand it to the roboticists at the University of Washington: They’ve built a robotic hand modeled so closely on human...
After gravititation-wave rumors, it’s getting close to go time for Advanced LIGO results
The scientists behind the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory are getting ready to reveal their latest findings, amid a flurry of speculation over whether or not they’ve made the first-ever detection of waves rippling through spacetime. Fred Raab, the...
Slack CEO on going public: The window for easy money in private markets will close slowly
When will Slack, the fast-growing enterprise chat app, go public? Will the environment of easy VC money in the private markets dry up? Slack CEO and Co-founder Stewart Butterfield addressed these questions at an entrepreneurship panel at...
Senators join forces in campaign to close America’s Arctic icebreaker gap
Two U.S. senators from opposite sides of the aisle – Washington Democrat Maria Cantwell and Alaska Republican Lisa Murkowski – teamed up today to hold President Barack Obama to his word when it comes to beefing up the U.S. Coast Guard’s sagging...
President Obama wants computer science for every student — so how close are we?
Innovation, science and technology were recurring themes during President Obama’s final State of the Union address on Tuesday night. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was one of the invited guests of Michelle Obama — recognizing the Redmond company’s focus on “expanding access to computer science in K-12 classrooms,” as the...
Up close with LeBron James: Reviewing the NBA superstar’s first virtual reality film
Last night, I was sitting next to LeBron James inside an SUV, listening to the NBA superstar talk about what basketball means to his family as his son sat behind us, playing on an iPad. Soon later I was inches away from the 6-foot-8, 250-pound beast, marveling...
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Nuclear physics: Close encounters of the alpha kind
Breakthrough calculations of collisions between two helium nuclei pave the way to a quantitative understanding of how the elements carbon and oxygen were made in stars — and to improved models of stellar evolution. See Letter p.111
Nature 528 42 doi: 10.1038/528042a
Nuclear physics: Close encounters of the alpha kind
Breakthrough calculations of collisions between two helium nuclei pave the way to a quantitative understanding of how the elements carbon and oxygen were made in stars — and to improved models of stellar evolution. See Letter p.111
Nature 528 42 doi: 10.1038/528042a