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A researcher in Algoma University’s School of Life Sciences and the Environment has received a prestigious $162,500 grant to further her research in cancer biology. The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada awarded a Discovery grant to Dr. Nirosha Murugan for her research program Biophysical Control of Tissue Re-Programming. Murugan’s research aims to understand how cells communicate with each other in order to be able to prevent or stop cancer cells from developing. “In the biological world, cells are constantly talking to each other,” Murugan explained to Sault This Week. “The way that they communicate is most commonly thought of as through exchanging molecules. These molecules tell the cell to divide, to move, and what they should be (e.g., a heart cell, a brain cell) or what shape the cells should take. The biomolecules that tell cells to form certain shapes are called morphogens.”
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You glimpse a light in the night sky not a star, not an airplane, but something radically different. It moves with baffling speed, pulsates with radiance beyond anything you ve witnessed. Three letters immediately enter your mind: U-F-O.
Technically an unidentified flying object can be anything when you get right down to it, but the term has become synonymous with extraterrestrial spacecraft. Alleged sightings began popping up in the 1950s and continue to this day throughout the world. Exact descriptions of alien spacecraft vary with each telling, but witnesses often describe a lighted object capable of hovering silently and zigzagging in midair.
Do atheists think differently from religious people? Scientists are trying to find out
Atheists may think more analytically than religious people, but it is far from proven. Jan 23, 2021 · 11:30 pm If believing in gods is intuitive, then this intuition can be overridden by more careful thinking. | Wikimedia Commons [Licensed under CC-PD-Mark]
The cognitive study of religion has recently reached a new, unknown land: the minds of unbelievers. Do atheists think differently from religious people? Is there something special about how their brains work? To illustrate what they have found, I will focus on three key snapshots.
The first one, from 2003, is probably the most photogenic moment of “neuro-atheism”. Biologist and atheist Richard Dawkins travelled to the lab of Canadian neuroscientist Michael Persinger in the hope of having a religious experience.
A recent study has examined whether atheists think differently from religious people.
Miguel Farias focises on three key snapshots.
The cognitive study of religion has recently reached a new, unknown land: the minds of unbelievers. Do atheists think differently from religious people? Is there something special about how their brains work? To illustrate what they’ve found, I will focus on three key snapshots.
The first one, from 2003, is probably the most photogenic moment of “neuro-atheism”. Biologist and atheist Richard Dawkins travelled to the lab of Canadian neuroscientist Michael Persinger in the hope of having a religious experience. In this BBC Horizon film, God on the Brain, a retro science-fiction helmet was placed on Dawkins head. This “god helmet” generated weak magnetic fields, applied to the temporal lobes.