Word: braining
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...Professionals have increased their searches very dramatically in recent years, not specifically for comets but for asteroids," says CBAT Director Brain G. Marsden. "Several comets have shown up in their searches, making it harder for amateurs to claim original discoveries for themselves...
...remember every word of an annoying commercial but not where we last saw the television remote? The answer may lie in a study using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to capture what happens in the brain the instant a memory is formed...
DIED. DAN QUISENBERRY, 45, relief pitcher for the Kansas City Royals whose wit was as devastating as his sinkerball; of brain cancer; in Kansas City, Mo. Confounding batters with his underhand pitches, Quisenberry was a three-time All-Star who led the American League in saves from 1980 through...
Duke University Medical Center is one of the crown jewels of American medicine. In the labs, wards and classrooms spread out over the 210-acre medical campus in the North Carolina Piedmont, doctors are pushing hard against the limits of our imagination: tiptoeing electronically through the brain in search of hidden tumors, inventing vaccines that might turn lethal cancers into treatable ones, even breeding animals whose organs could one day be harvested for transplant to make up for the shortfall in human donors. These men and women muscled their way through college and medical school and internships and fellowships, just...
...named 1992KD, which orbits the sun millions of miles from Earth. But that destination is almost incidental to the performance of the spacecraft that will make the trip. Though it looks little different from countless other unmanned probes NASA has launched, the ship will be navigated by an electronic brain that has been likened to HAL, the independent-minded computer in the film 2001, and will move through space under power of a system that has long been the stuff of technological fantasies: an ion propulsion engine...