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...Mikucki and her group began sampling water that runs from deep within the glacier - which warms just enough in the Antarctic summer that it melts. Freed up after 1,500 millennia of absolute blackness and utter cold, the water at first seemed completely sterile. "When I started running chemical analysis on it," says Mikucki, "there was no oxygen...
Higher order human emotions, such as compassion and admiration, are often cataloged as artifacts of culture. But a small new study that relies on scans of the brain suggests the opposite: these feelings are rooted deep within the brain, where basic traits like anger and fear reside...
...neural networks that regulate some of the body's most basic functions, such as breathing and blood pressure, which indicates that complex social emotions build on systems that evolved early, including those essential to our survival. "It is important to realize that they recruit the brain in a very deep manner," says Antonio Damasio, one of the authors of the study published online this week in the Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences and the director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at University of Southern California (USC). "They recruit the brain in a way that older emotions...
...question is intriguing, but mere exposure to fast-moving media may be unlikely to disrupt such deep-rooted emotional responses - ones that, as the study's brain scans show, are intertwined with vital physical functions. Indeed, the findings may even explain why powerful emotions can result in physical sensations. "If you think for a moment of how you react when you are in the presence of somebody you admire - for example, Gandhi - you feel something very deep," says Damasio. "It's not a little thing. It's something that cuts very deep in your person...
...track.“Favia’s persistence comes from her ability to keep a positive attitude through hardships,” Merritt’s teammate Sean Gil said. “She can tolerate a huge amount of discomfort, and never lets it limit her performance. Deep under her bubbly personality, there is subtle and intense determination that seems to drive her to achieve.”Her presence is always well known at meets, whether it is when she is flying past her opponents, cheering for her team, or providing entertainment when nothing else is going...