figure.stacked.xlrg img { padding-bottom: 6px; } figure.stacked.xlrg figcaption { padding-bottom: 26px; } .article-detail figure.stacked figcaption:last-child { margin-bottom: 0; padding-bottom: 12px; } Video: Johns Hopkins University Tech for a Noisy World: Researchers simulated an extremely noisy environment in the lab (the sound meter shows levels of around 70 decibels). They compared the audio heard through a […]
Image: University of California, San Diego Snakes in a Brain: Shape-memory alloy microelectrodes would be programmed to bend their way around the brain’s blood vessels. Getting neurons to communicate with electronics has always been hard—hard on the neurons, that is. Arrays of rigid metal electrodes implanted in the brain pierce blood vessels and dislodge support […]
Tech Insider Webinar: Flash DSC (Differential Scanning Calorimetry) Revolutionizes Rapid-Scanning DSC Wed, 16 Jan 2019 – 10:00 ET / 7:00 PT / 15:00 GMT (Now available on demand) Duration: 60 min. Flash DSC is a novel technique, a quantum leap in DSC technology that opens up new frontiers. The new Flash DSC 2 revolutionizes rapid-scanning […]
A movie montage for modern artificial intelligence might show a computer playing millions of games of chess or Go against itself to learn how to win. Now, researchers are exploring how the reinforcement learning technique that helped DeepMind’s AlphaZero conquer chess and Go could tackle an even more complex task—training a robotic knee to help amputees walk smoothly.
A woman with a fear of spiders sits in a chair wearing a virtual reality headset. She watches 3D video footage of a tarantula walking over what seems like her hand. Then the spider creeps toward her face. She watches the 5-minute video six times. It sounds like torture, but the video is supposed to help. The idea is […]
Three-dimensional bioprinting—building tissues by putting down layers of cells and other materials—has led to the manufacturing of human tissues including corneas, skin, and blood vessels. Now, a team at the University of California, San Diego, is raising the bar. In a paper published this week in the journal Nature Medicine, they describe a 3D-printed spinal cord implant […]
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In 2019, I will exercise more, sleep more, and eat less. And hopefully shed some excess holiday pounds. If only there were a device that could help me out… In a recent paper in the journal Nature Communications, engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UWM) describe a device to aid weight loss that is less invasive than […]
Danny Bal was riding his brand new motorcycle to work from his home in Ocala, Fla., two years ago when the driver of an oncoming car fell asleep and plowed into Bal’s electric-blue bike. After the accident, which crushed three of Bal’s thoracic vertebrae and shredded a spinal nerve, Bal adjusted to life in a […]