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A new generation of flight simulators will attempt to make air traffic safer. Whether for a business trip to a neighbouring country or a holiday in the Caribbean: What most people take for granted, actually poses a great challenge not only for the transport business, but also particularly for pilots.

For the very first time, scientists show what EEG can really tell us about how the brain functions.

Researchers Identify Gene Mutations Underlying Risk for Most Common Form of Parkinson's Disease International study reveals common gene variants in people of European descent Two genes containing mutations known to cause rare familial forms of parkinsonism are also associated with the more common, sporadic form of the disease where there is no ...

Hans Kueng gives a speech at the Second World Conference of Sinology in Beijing.

An artist's rendition of a Neanderthal family in Ice Age Europe. An artist's rendition of a Neanderthal family in Ice Age Europe.

Visitors to the new Hall of Human Origins exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History are greeted by the skeletons of a chimpanzee, human and a Neanderthal.

By building a tiny microscope small enough to be carried around on a rats' head, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tubingen, Germany, have found a way to study the complex activity of many brain cells simultaneously while animals are free to move around.

Pacifican Shannon Durst always knew she had an adventurous spirit. Her year studying and traveling in Europe taught her she not only had the wisdom to get through the difficulties of a new environment and a language barrier but to emerge a world class traveler with friends from around the world.

An illustration of a rhesus macaque drumming with cage doors. Credit: K. Lamberty, PNAS.

A basic task of information processing is information transfer . Here we study a pair of Brownian particles each coupled to a thermal bath at temperatures T 1 and T 2. The information flow in such a system is defined via the time-shifted mutual information.

Visually impaired or blind patients with degenerative retina conditions would be very happy if they were able to regain mobility, find their way around, be able to lead an independent life and to recognize faces and read again.

Professor Dr. Karl Albrecht Schachtschneider , who will be speaking at 'Vote No To Lisbon' meetings in Dublin and Galway between September 21st and 23rd next.

RSF news - Republican Sinn Fein - http://rsf.ie Teach DA ithA A" Conaill, 223 Parnell Street, Dublin 1, Ireland Phone: +353-1-872 9747; FAX: +353-1-872 9757; e-mail: saoirse@iol.ie Date: 4Ao MeA n FA3mhair/September 2009 Internet resources maintained by SAOIRSE -Irish Freedom http://saoirse.info In this issue: 1. Leading German EU law expert to ...

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tubingen, Germany, have presented the first empirical evidence that people do end up walking in circles if lost in unfamiliar terrain.

If you've ever been lost and got the feeling you were just retracing your steps, chances are you're right.

Robert Short dies, Paula White returns to Without Walls, and other transitions in the Christian world.

Robert Short dies, Paula White returns to Without Walls, and other transitions in the Christian world.

According to a researcher, in this age of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, intercourse without a condom, while potentially disastrous for the body, is good for the psyche.

Witting, Georg was a German chemist who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in chemistry with Herbert Charles Brown of the United States.

The mayor of a Romanian city and his son dressed in German World War II uniforms for a fashion show.