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Just like all nerve cells, they conduct electrical signals, sending information from wherever they're located back to your brain.
And scientists are discovering that the brain controls how we respond to pain signals.
By this, he meant that because the speed of light is finite, any signals detected from distant technologies will be telling us about their past by the time they reach us.
We've developed technologies that can send signals into space and humans to the moon, but we've also developed technologies that can destroy the environment, that can wage war with weapons and biological terrorism.
So now the app navigates me by analyzing beacon signals and smartphone sensors and permits me to move around indoor and outdoor environments all by myself.
Now in addition to the surfaces, we also study the chemical and microbial signals that attract corals to reefs.
But each one of these is a different age, and if we can find out how old they are and then we can measure those chemical signals, this helps us to find out what's been going on in the ocean in the past.
And, of course, the satellites that we rely on for our GPS and mobile phone signals would not have been there without the space program.
While skin cells protect your body, muscle cells contract, and nerve cells send signals, stem cells do not have any specific structures or functions.
When light hits our eye, the relative amount of energy each cone measures signals our brain to perceive colors.
As they dissolve, they bind to the olfactory receptor cells, which fire and send signals through the olfactory tract up to your brain.
Each of those signals goes first to a relay center in the middle of the cerebral hemisphere and then out to other regions of the brain.
How can human-made squiggles on a page reflect lights into our eyes that send signals to our brains that we logically and emotionally decode as complex narratives that move us to fight, cry, sing, and think, that are strong enough not only to hold up a world that is completely invented by the author, but also to change the reader's perspective on the real world that resumes only when the final squiggle is reached?
The most common theory has to do with mismatched sensory signals.
The high cost of maintaining resting potentials in all 86 billion neurons means that little energy is left to propel signals down axons and across synapses, the nerve discharges that actually get things done.
Because the small number of signals have thousands of possible paths by which to distribute themselves.
It's able to pick up on natural chemical signals known as pheromones.
This confusion makes many students wary of the heart in biology lessons, thinking it signals an intimidating subject full of complicated names and diagrams.
Well, when you get hurt, special tissue damage-sensing nerve cells, called nociceptors, fire and send signals to the spinal cord and then up to the brain.
The brain also responds to the pain and has to cope with these pain signals.
For mild pain, non-prescription medications can act on cells where the pain signals start.
Although they have no methods of intentional communication, individual ants do interact with one another through touch, sound and chemical signals.
Lipids also act as signals to turn on genes.
So what we're trying to do right now is to understand the environmental and cellular signals that switch on these genes in resurrection plants, to mimic the process in crops.
But while our brain is busy dreaming, it's letting plenty of signals slip by.
Each satellite constantly broadcasts radio signals that travel from space to your phone at the speed of light.
These are very interesting circuits in the spinal cord of vertebrate animals that can generate, by themselves, very coordinated rhythmic patterns of activity while receiving only very simple input signals.
And these input signals coming from descending modulation from higher parts of the brain, like the motor cortex, the cerebellum, the basal ganglia, will all modulate activity of the spinal cord while we do locomotion.
And the only thing we do is send to the robot through a remote control the two descending signals it normally should receive from the upper part of the brain.
And what's interesting is, by playing with these signals, we can completely control speed, heading and type of gait.
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