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(Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research) Scientists from Maastricht University have developed a method to look into the brain of a person and read out who has spoken to him or her and what was said.

With the help of neuroimaging and data mining techniques the researchers mapped the brain activity associated with the recognition of speech sounds and voices.

The latest upgrade to the Cray XT Jaguar supercomputer at the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has increased the system's computing power to a peak 1.64 "petaflops," or quadrillion mathematical calculations per second, making Jaguar the world's first petaflop system dedicated to open research.

Scientists have already used the newly upgraded Jaguar to complete an unprecedented superconductivity calculation that achieved a sustained performance of more than 1.3 petaflops.

(American Association for Cancer Research) Scientists and clinicians from around the world will gather in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, next week at the American Association for Cancer Research’s third International Conference on Molecular Diagnostics in Therapeutic Development.

(University of Chicago) The moment that James Pilcher has been waiting for since 1994 will arrive at 1:30 a.m. CDT on Wednesday, Sept. 10, when the world's largest scientific instrument is scheduled to begin operation.Pilcher is among six University of Chicago faculty members and more than a dozen research scientists and students, both graduate and undergraduate, who have contributed to the design and construction of the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland.

Scientists have discovered that cells in the pancreas cooperate -- signal -- in a way hitherto unknown. The discovery can eventually be of significance to the treatment of diabetes.

Using sophisticated unmanned aircraft, research scientists hope to assess Southern California's potential for climate change and better understand the sources of air pollution.

There is a biological distinction between breast cancers that depend on hormones and cancers that do not, according to new research.

Scientists previously thought that hormone dependent breast cancers, which usually require treatment with surgery and anti-hormone drugs, originated from the same biological pathway as hormone independent breast cancers, which are treated with surgery and chemotherapy.

Inserting tiny scaffolding into the brain could dramatically reduce damage caused by strokes, according to new research.

Scientists from the Institute of Psychiatry have found that combining scaffold microparticles with neural stem cells could regenerate lost brain tissue.

The Y chromosome retains a remarkable record of human ancestry, passed directly from father to son. In an article in Genome Research, scientists have utilized recently described genetic variations on Y chromosome region that does not undergo recombination to significantly refine the Y chromosome haplogroup tree.

A car body that thinks intelligently and protects its occupants at the crucial moment has been every driver's dream for a long time.

Research scientists have developed an intelligent side-impact protection system that dramatically reduces the risk of injury.

Just recently the system has proved it actually works in a real crash situation.