Science and Technology

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  • Effort to Remotely Control Brain Cells Gets Push from Innovative Grant
    4/16/12
    Scientists developing a non-invasive technique for remotely controlling the brain have received $1.2 million from the Human Frontier Science Program to intensify their work.
  • NASA Astrophysicist to Discuss the 'History of the Universe, in a Nutshell'
    4/11/12
    A senior astrophysicist from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center will regale guests of the University at Buffalo with a brief history of the universe. John Mather, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist who specializes in infrared astronomy and cosmology, will deliver the UB Department of Physics' 18th annual Moti Lal Rustgi Memorial Lecture on Friday, April 20 at 5 p.m. in 225 Natural Sciences Complex on UB's North Campus in Amherst, N.Y.
  • The Neurogenics of Niceness
    4/9/12
    It turns out that the milk of human kindness is evoked by something besides mom's good example. Research by psychologists at the University at Buffalo and the University of California, Irvine, has found that at least part of the reason some people are kind and generous is because their genes nudge them toward it.
  • Media Advisory: Making Deals in Western New York and Beyond
    4/2/12
    Business Leader Stacey Davis of Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, part of Johnson & Johnson, will be in Buffalo April 4 talking with entrepreneurs, investors and business professionals about making deals through corporate investment.
  • Physicists Explain the Collective Motion of Particles Called Fermions
    3/29/12
    Some people like company. Others prefer to be alone. The same holds true for the particles that constitute the matter around us: Some, called bosons, like to act in unison with others. Others, called fermions, have a mind of their own.
  • Afterbirth: Study Asks If We Could Derive Benefits from Ingesting Placenta
    3/27/12
    A paper by neuroscientists at the University at Buffalo and Buffalo State College suggests that ingestion of components of afterbirth or placenta -- placentophagia -- may offer benefits to human mothers and perhaps to non-mothers and males.
  • UB to Receive State Designation and Start-up Funding to Establish a Center of Excellence in Materials Informatics
    3/27/12
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The Western New York legislative delegation informed University at Buffalo President Satish K. Tripathi today that UB will receive a state designation for a Center of Excellence in Materials Informatics, and will be awarded $200,000 in seed funding toward the establishment of the center.
  • Can a Machine Tell When You're Lying? Research Suggests the Answer is 'Yes'
    3/26/12
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Inspired by the work of psychologists who study the human face for clues that someone is telling a high-stakes lie, UB computer scientists are exploring whether machines can also read the visual cues that give away deceit.
  • Buzzers Ready! UB Trivia Players Head to Chicago for National Tournament
    3/22/12
    A team of four University at Buffalo trivia players will head to Chicago March 30 to take on other college teams in a national, invitation-only quiz bowl. Hands clenching buzzers, they'll field questions on topics including music, literature, mythology, philosophy, geography, astronomy, quantum mechanics and more.
  • Self-Reflective Mind -- In Animals! Psychologists Report on Continuing Advances
    3/21/12
    According to one of the leading scholars in the field, there is an emerging consensus among scientists that animals share functional parallels with humans' conscious metacognition -- that is, our ability to reflect on our own mental processes and guide and optimize them.