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Special glasses help surgeons ’see’ cancer​​​​​​​​​ | Newsroom | Washington University in St. Louis
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“High-tech glasses developed at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis may help surgeons visualize cancer cells, which glow blue when viewed through the eyewear.” - Raffa

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Toujours dans le cadre du Human Connectome Project

The #Brain, in Exquisite Detail - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/07/science/the-brain-in-exquisite-detail.html

ST. LOUIS — Deanna Barch talks fast, as if she doesn’t want to waste any time getting to the task at hand, which is substantial. She is one of the researchers here at Washington University working on the first interactive wiring diagram of the living, working human brain.
The Mapmakers

M. F. Glasser and D.C. Van Essen for the WU-Minn HCP Consortium
The many folds and valleys of a single brain surface, left, and a composite image using data from 12 subjects, right, suggest the degree of variation in human brains.

To build this diagram she and her colleagues are doing brain scans and cognitive, psychological, physical and genetic assessments of 1,200 volunteers. They are more than a third of the way through collecting information. Then comes the processing of data, incorporating it into a three-dimensional, interactive map of the healthy human brain showing structure and function, with detail to one and a half cubic millimeters, or less than 0.0001 cubic inches.

Cet article fait partie d’une série, The mapmakers — Articles in this series will examine new efforts to understand how the brain works, and the scientists behind them. #cerveau

cf. A Search for Self in a Brain Scan (January 7, 2014)
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/07/science/a-search-for-self-in-a-brain-scan.html

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“2312” - Kim Stanley Robinson
►http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/06/geeks-guide-kim-stanley-robinson/all

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Most stories about space exploration imagine starships zipping between alien worlds, but 2312 is set firmly in our solar system. Yet the novel shows that a single solar system can provoke plenty of wonder and provide ample territory for intrigue. In this future, rising sea levels have turned New York into a city of canals, asteroids are hollowed out to create giant nature preserves, and malicious schemes are calculated with the aid of quantum computers. Citizens live hundreds of years, are augmented with cybernetic technology, and casually swap genders.

ce #roman de #science-fiction est une sorte de suite de la trilogie de Mars ; il y a au milieu du #livre un passage de 3 pages absolument magnifique qui décrit #Iapetus. Et donne envie d’aller y prendre quelques vacances pour observer la dichotomie noir/blanc de cette lune de #Saturne depuis la crête de 20 kilomètres d’altitude qui la coupe en deux, et dont l’origine serait la chute d’une lune secondaire...
►http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA11690

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on pourrait aussi y observer quelques belles avalanches

Giant Ice Avalanches On Saturn’s Moon Iapetus Provide Clue to Extreme Slippage Elsewhere in the Solar System
►http://ksr.umm.ac.id/en/berita-ilmiah-umm-112-longsoran-es-raksasa-pada-bulan-saturnus-memberikan

“We see landslides everywhere in the solar system,” says Kelsi Singer, graduate student in earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, “but Saturn’s icy moon Iapetus has more giant landslides than any body other than Mars.”

The reason, says William McKinnon, PhD, professor of earth and planetary sciences, is Iapetus’ spectacular topography. "Not only is the moon out-of-round, but the giant impact basins are very deep, and there’s this great mountain ridge that’s 20 kilometers (12 miles) high, far higher than Mount Everest.

#espace