Scientists break through the wall of sleep to the untapped world of dreams
NSF-supported researchers achieve two-way communication with lucidly dreaming people, creating a new method for studying the human mind that might lead to innovative ways of learning and problem-solving. By Jason Stoughton Eight minus six … two”
It’s not exactly “one small step for man,” but that humble mathematical message is extraordinary in its own way. The first part “eight minus six” was transmitted by a scientist to a place just as exotic as the moon yet frequented by each of us. The response “two” came from the mind of a sleeping research subject as he snoozed in a neuroscience laboratory outside Chicago.
February 24, 2021 6:45 PM National Science Foundation, 2415 Eisenhower Avenue, Alexandria, VA 22314
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By Chris Parsons February 16, 2021
Naiyiri-Blu Brooker grew up in a military family stationed in rural Germany, far from the sea. Nevertheless, she has been obsessed by marine life since childhood. “I would annoy my family by making them sit down in the living room while I gave them a presentation about any type of marine organism I could. I did that for a very long time. Sorry, Mom and Dad.”
After her family moved to New York, she enrolled in Lehman College to study biology. As an aspiring marine biologist, she was frustrated that, except for one class, the program was very biomedically oriented. Then she stumbled across a poster for the U.S. National Science Foundation s Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) at LUMCON, the Louisiana Universities Consortium for Marine Sciences. Naiyiri jumped at the chance. The NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates Sites Program is designed to give undergraduate students the opportunity to gain valuable research experience t
March 23, 2021 5:00 PM Virtual Workshop
The National Science Foundation to Support a Series of Workshops on Pandemic Prediction and Prevention
The Directorates for Biological Sciences (BIO); Computer Information Science and Engineering (CISE); Engineering (ENG); Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE); and the Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE) at the National Science Foundation (NSF) are jointly supporting a series of interdisciplinary workshops to engage research communities around the topic of
Predictive Intelligence for
Pandemic Prevention. This topic arises both from fundamental scientific questions and pressing societal needs. Consequently, NSF is holding a series of virtual workshops that bring together interdisciplinary experts in the
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