NASA Studies &#39;Rain Man&#39;s&#39; Brain
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NASA scientists are studying the man who was the basis for Dustin Hoffman&#39;s character in the 1988 film &quot;Rain Man,&quot; hoping that technology used to study the effects of space travel on the brain will help explain his mental capabilities.
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THURSDAY, Nov. 4 (HealthDayNews) -- A study of Parkinson's disease patients has led to new insights into how the brain responds to &quot;carrot and stick&quot; learning approaches.
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By AP  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  -- How could NASA improve on a week that saw a successful space shuttle launch against bad-weather odds, the unveiling of an exciting new mission to the moon and a tantalizing discovery on Mars?   With a Nobel Prize, of course. NASA scientist John C.
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It&#39;s the discovery by two Mars rovers that the Red Planet once had water and possibly could have supported life. That recognition comes today from the journal Science.
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Summary - (Sep 17, 2004) After its crash landing, NASA scientists weren&#39;t too hopeful that they&#39;d turn up much science in the wreckage of Genesis&#39; sample capsule, but the results so far have been a pleasant surprise.
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Researchers in Spain set about creating a man-made version of the part of the brain that controls movement.
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Tracking trees in a changing climate A NASA funded study is using satellites to monitor forests, with the aim of measuring the impact of climate change on their growth and health.â¦
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U.S. government scientists say they've discovered satellite technology that overcomes an obstacle to measuring atmospheric water vapor from space.
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The most dramatic findings so far from NASA&#39;s twin Mars rovers -- telltale evidence for a wet and possibly habitable environment in the arid planet&#39;s past -- passed rigorous scientific scrutiny for publication in a major research journal.
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Goddard Space Flight Center -- NASA scientists recently successfully radioed artificial intelligence (AI) software to a satellite. They tested the software's ability to find and analyze errors in the spacecraft's systems...
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An experimental helmet is being tested by scientists as a treatment for Alzheimer's disease.
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Researchers have unveiled a new way to map the brainâs billions of neurons.
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The phenomenon, known as frame-dragging, is quite small, amounting to 6 feet in the distance that satellites, moving at about 18,000 miles per hour, cover in their orbits in a year, but it is within the ability of NASA&#39;s instruments to detect.
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With NASA now actively planning for the day when astronauts will live for months on the moon or make the years-long flight to Mars and back, a potentially troublesome question is being raised with increasing urgency: Is the human body -- even a well-protected human body -- capable of living in space...
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UK and Swiss scientists find a way to trigger an out-of-body experience in healthy volunteers.
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The US space agency NASA says one of its two rovers on Mars has found possible fresh evidence that liquid water existed there in the past.
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_ One of NASA&#39;s first astronauts, Oklahoma native L. Gordon Cooper Jr., was remembered at the Johnson Space Center as ``not too bad of a water skier, not too bad of a pilot, but a heck of a good astronaut.