NASA Studying 'Rain Man's' Brain
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NASA scientists are studying autistic savant Kim Peek, hoping that technology used to study the effects of space travel on the brain will help explain his mental capabilities.
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Researchers have unveiled a new way to map the brainâs billions of neurons.
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NASA experts said they have detected evidence that liquid water existed on the surface of Mars in recent years, giving weight to hopes that signs of life on the Red Planet could still be found.
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Description: We check in with the progress of search for extraterrestrial intelligence. A paper published this week in the journal Nature argues that for sending lots of data over long distances, it&#39;s hard
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SALT LAKE CITY Nov 8, 2004 - NASA scientists are studying autistic savant Kim Peek, hoping that technology used to study the effects of space travel on the brain will help explain his mental capabilities.
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Experts pinpoint a brain part that may hold the key to recognising places we have previously been.
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When test subjects are told they are drinking Coke, their brain activity increases, scientists report. Scientists say they can tell a Coke drinker from a Pepsi aficionado by reviewing brain scans.
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A medical expert on how NASA screens its astronauts and whether the intimacy of their training makes them more prone to romantic liaisons.
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Scientists believe they have found a way to dampen down the impact of bad memories in people's brains.
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William Sutherling of the Huntington Medical Research Institute demonstrates how to use magnetic imaging to hunt down seizure-causing brain tissue.
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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.
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The reaction to NASA's still-secret air safety survey.
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Images from the spacecraft show two craters that may have been altered by the recent flow of water
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There's nothing routine about working in space, as astronaut Mike Fincke found out recently when he did some soldering onboard the International Space Station.    Science@NASA -- Richard Grugel, a materials scientist at the Marshall Space Flight Center, watched his video monitor in disbelief...
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Brain scans reveal how the brain gets "tired and over-emotional" when someone is deprived of sleep.
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Researchers have found a 'bottleneck' in the brain that appears to explain why we struggle to do two things at once.
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Scientists develop an electronic device to test for serious head injuries.