Watching a pan of water as it is agitated up-and-down brings to mind ripples of waves churned by rocks plopping into a lake. In the lab of UO physicist Eric Corwin, however, it is a magic show where the water is being transformed into the same consistency as, say, wine or molasses.
Horses and people are an iconic pairing in stories of the Old West. But as researchers at the UO's Museum of Natural and Cultural History recently found, human-horse relations go way back — back to the old west that was Oregon during the last ice age.
The Washington Post features the research of UO psychologists who were able to pretty accurately sketch out the thoughts of participants simply by scanning their brains.