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MRI-Powered Robot Can Swim Through Your Guts

9:00PM January 16, 2012 | Jamie Condliffe

If you’ve ever had the pleasure of experiencing endoscopy, you’ll think there must be a better way to check out your insides than having a camera shoved up your arse. Now there is, and it’s robotic! More »


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Surgeons Extract Pen In Woman’s Stomach 25 Years After She Swallowed It

11:00AM December 21, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

This woman swallowed a felt-tip pen in 1986. Back then, she told the doctor and her husband what happened, but they didn’t believe her. Now, 25 years later, she went to another doctor and they found the pen intact inside her stomach. More »


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Electric Shocks Can Aid Learning

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2:00PM September 22, 2011 | Alex Kidman

That time you stuck a fork in the electric socket as a youngster? Not only were you learning a valuable lesson about pain, but you may have also been firing up your brain, according to new research. More »


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I Don’t Want To Live In A World Where Machines Can Read My Mind. Or Do I?

5:00AM September 6, 2011 | Adrian Covert

Researchers equipped with fMRI machines have shown that they can link specific brainwave functions to specific objects, ideas or emotions. What they see as innovation, I see as the goddamn thought police running amuck in 30 years. More »


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Worried You’ll Never Quit Smoking? A Brain Scan Can Tell Whether Or Not That’s True

4:20PM February 1, 2011 | Adrian Covert

Similar to the way an MRI brain scan can determine whether or not you’ll be good at video games, it can also tell you how successful you’ll be in your attempt to escape the death grip of big tobacco. More »


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Dual-Headed MRI Machine Allows For Cuddling During Scans

1:20PM January 28, 2011 | Ferris Jabr - NewScientist

Right now, getting an MRI scan means you have be still—and alone—in a gigantic machine. Thanks to some clever researchers though, future MRI scanners might be double-headed—meaning that you can bring a buddy for simultaneous, cuddle-filled brain scans. More »


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MRI Scans Can Reveal Whether You’re A Good Gamer

1:20PM January 14, 2011 | Chris Kohler - Wired

How can you tell if you’re a natural gaming pro? Researchers say they need look no further than your basal ganglia – a structure in your brain. More »


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The First MRI Of Birth: Baby Looking At Mum’s Vagina

1:20PM December 8, 2010 | Casey Chan

Berlin doctors have captured the first ever MRI images of a baby being born. It’s nice to know that the miracle of birth is just as disgustingly beautiful inside, as it is outside. More »


Behind The Music: Tongues (Synopsis: They Are Gross)

6:00AM June 4, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

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I’m sure USC’s Speech Articulation group gained all sorts of important phonological insights from these videos of an opera singer and a beatboxer doing their respective things in an MRI machine. Here’s the insight I gained: tongues are gross. More »


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Vegetative Patient Answers Yes And No Questions With His Brain

10:20AM February 5, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

Raising questions about the definition of a vegetative state as well as what to do with people in them, a new study observed the brain of an unconscious patient responding to yes and no questions just like normal. More »