Using only data from an fMRI scan, researchers led by a Yale University undergraduate have accurately reconstructed images of human faces as viewed by other people.
via YaleNews | Yale researchers reconstruct facial images locked in a viewer’s mind.
The glass brain is a Unity3D brain visualization that displays source activity and connectivity, inferred in real-time from high-density EEG using methods implemented in SIFT and BCILAB.
via Glass Brain | Projects | Neuroscape lab.
China’s central bank has ruled that all banks and payment service providers in the country must cease dealing in Bitcoin.
The ruling, effective from April 15th, basically shutters all Bitcoin trading sites in the Middle Kingdom and means cash purchases will soon be the only way to buy into the virtual currency.
via Bitcoin bloodbath as China shutters all trading sites • The Register.
Doctors in UPMC Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania are now waiting for a patient to show up with a gaping chest wound, who’s lost around 50% of his / her blood so they can replace the entire blood supply with a cold saline solution, which rapidly cools the body and stops almost all cellular activity. This reduces the amount of oxygen required by the heart and other vital organs. They hope to fix the structural issues whilst the patient is in a cooled state, then return the blood and warm it up slowly.
This has been demonstrated in pigs in 2002.
Gunshot victims to be suspended between life and death – health – 26 March 2014 – New Scientist.