World Science: Dream-reading machine in the works?

* Dream-reading machine in the works?:
Scientists have applied computer processing to brain
scans to see what images pop up in sleeping people's
heads.

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/130404_dreams


* 3-D view inside proton may be coming into 
focus:
Physicists are measuring how the most basic known
particles -- quarks -- are arranged to make up
pieces of the atomic nucleus.

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/130404_quarks


* Simulations may reveal how galaxies become 
spiral:
How galaxies like ours get and maintain their
characteristic arms has proved to be an enduring puzzle.

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/130403_spiral


* Buddhists are right: meditation makes you kinder, 
scientists say:
Meditators in a controlled study were found more apt
to become that nice stranger who steps forward to
help when no one else will.

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/130402_meditation


* Scientists use robots to replicate ant colony 
behavior:
New experiments show that ants don't need great
smarts to navigate efficiently, researchers say.

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/130401_robot


* A new way to lose weight?:
Mice were found to quickly shed weight when
implanted with gut microbes from other mice that had
undergone gastric bypass.

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/130328_microbes


* "Near-death experience" memories found to 
share qualities with true ones:
The mystical, meaningful experiences sometimes
described by survivors of close brushes with death
have long fascinated scientists.

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/130328_NDE



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