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Engineering innovative seismic retrofits that don't break the bank -- Science Nation

04/30/2015 01:04 PM EDT

Engineering innovative seismic retrofits that don't break the bank Researchers at the state-of-the-art Structural Engineering and Materials Laboratory at the Georgia Institute of Technology are using a full-scale model building to test new ways to protect structures from earthquakes and ...

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After learning new words, the brain sees them as pictures

04/30/2015 03:04 AM EDT

When we look at a known word, our brain sees it like a picture, not a group of letters needing to be processed. That's the finding from a Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) study which shows the brain learns words quickly by tuning neurons to respond to a complete word, not parts of it.

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