Kavli News

06/13/2018

Opening Pyrolysis Kiln Offers Waste-to-Reward Reality

Cornell’s new pyrolysis kiln – the largest of its kind at a U.S. university – opened May 24.

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06/12/2018

Study Reveals Brain Activity Patterns Underlying Fluent Speech

Research could pave the way for a brain prosthetic to translate thoughts into speech

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06/07/2018

No More Sweet Tooth? Scientists Switch Off Pleasure from Food in Brains of Mice

Columbia study shows that altering activity in brain’s emotion center can eliminate the natural craving for sweet; findings could inform treatments for eating disorders.

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06/07/2018

Impaired Energy Production May Explain Why the Brain Is Susceptible to Age-Related Diseases

By studying neurons generated directly from skin cells, Salk researchers showed the impact of aged mitochondria on brain cells

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06/07/2018

Brain scientists Identify 'Cross Talk' Between Neurons that Control Touch in Mice

Findings may provide new insights into the connections between movement and touch

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06/05/2018

Stanford-led International Collaboration Discovered an Elusive Neutron Star

Two of the most powerful telescopes in the world worked together to find the faintest millisecond pulsar ever discovered. The collaboration between the Fermi Large Area Telescope and China’s FAST radio telescope was spearheaded by Stanford physicist Peter Michelson.

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