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Flipping the brain’s addiction switch without drugs

Posted on 31. May, 2009 by admin.

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When someone becomes dependent on drugs or alcohol, the brain’s pleasure center gets hijacked, disrupting the normal functioning of its reward circuitry.
Researchers investigating this addiction “switch” have now implicated a naturally occurring protein, a dose of which allowed them to get rats hooked with no drugs at all.

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Faster computers, electronic devices possible after scientists create large-area graphene on copper

Posted on 08. May, 2009 by admin.

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AUSTIN, Texas—The creation of large-area graphene using copper may enable the manufacture of new graphene-based devices that meet the scaling requirements of the semiconductor industry, leading to faster computers and electronics, according to a team of scientists and engineers at The University of Texas at Austin.
Their work titled “Large-Area Synthesis of High-Quality and Uniform Graphene [...]

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