Why do women live longer than men?
Women live longer than men. This simple statement holds a tantalizing riddle that Steven Austad, Ph.D., and Kathleen Fischer, Ph.D., of the University of Alabama at Birmingham explore in a perspective...
View ArticleWorld's first 1,000-processor chip
A microchip containing 1,000 independent programmable processors has been designed by a team at the University of California, Davis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The...
View ArticleToyota Researcher Sees Cheap Robots Possible by Mass Production
The researcher hired by Toyota Motor Corp. to spearhead its robotics and artificial intelligence efforts says the automaker’s production principles can be applied to build affordable helper robots for...
View ArticleHuman brain houses diverse populations of neurons, new research shows
A team of researchers has developed the first scalable method to identify different subtypes of neurons in the human brain. The research lays the groundwork for "mapping" the gene activity in the human...
View ArticleA strategy for 'convergence' research to transform biomedicine
What if lost limbs could be regrown? Cancers detected early with blood or urine tests, instead of invasive biopsies? Drugs delivered via nanoparticles to specific tissues or even cells, minimizing...
View ArticleReal life brain studies: 3D brain-on-a-chip
To study brain cell's operation and test the effect of medication on individual cells, the conventional Petri dish with flat electrodes is not sufficient. For truly realistic studies, cells have to...
View ArticleAlphabet unveils robot dog capable of cleaning the house
Google’s holding company, Alphabet, has a new robotic dog from its Atlas-making Boston Dynamics subsidiary capable of clearing up after its human masters. SpotMini is the quietest and smallest Boston...
View ArticleSONY WANTS ‘EMOTIONAL ROBOT’ TO FORM BONDS WITH HUMANS
Sony is planning to re-enter the robot business with machines capable of forming emotional bonds with humans, the company’s CEO has said. Speaking at a shareholders meeting in Tokyo this week, Sony...
View ArticleInjectable biomaterial could be used to manipulate organ behavior
In the campy 1966 science fiction movie "Fantastic Voyage," scientists miniaturize a submarine with themselves inside and travel through the body of a colleague to break up a potentially fatal blood...
View ArticleParkinson's Disease biomarker found in patient urine samples
For more than five years, urine and cerebral-spinal fluid samples from patients with Parkinson's disease have been locked in freezers in the NINDS National Repository, stored with the expectation they...
View ArticleFilament 'muscle' drives skeleton robot
A team of researchers in Japan has created a system of robotic motion that can move a humanoid skeleton. This system, designed by a team at the Suzumori Endo Lab at the Tokyo Institute of Technology,...
View ArticleStingray Robot Powered by Light, and Living Rat Cells
If a robot is made of living cells, can respond to external stimuli and has the ability to compute and coordinate movement, is it alive? This question can be posed of a new, tiny stingray-inspired...
View ArticleDNA origami lights up a microscopic glowing Van Gogh
Using folded DNA to precisely place glowing molecules within microscopic light resonators, researchers at Caltech have created one of the world's smallest reproductions of Vincent van Gogh's The Starry...
View ArticleGeorgia Tech's DURUS robot has a more natural human-like stride
Last time we saw the DURUS robot walking like a human, it was still doing so relatively flat footed. The folks at Georgia Tech's AMBER-Lab have improved the robot's movements to incorporate even more...
View ArticleRobots come to each other's aid when they get the signal
Sometimes all it takes to get help from someone is to wave at them, or point. Now the same is true for robots. Researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden have completed work on an EU...
View ArticleArtificial intelligence: can we control it?
It is the world’s greatest opportunity, and its greatest threat, believes Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom Scientists reckon there have been at least five mass extinction events in the history of our...
View ArticleInside Facebook’s Artificial Intelligence Engine Room
Access Facebook from the western half of North America and there’s a good chance your data will be pulled from a computer cooled by the juniper- and sage-scented air of central Oregon’s high desert. In...
View ArticleResearchers build a crawling robot from sea slug parts and a 3-D printed body
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have combined tissues from a sea slug with flexible 3-D printed components to build "biohybrid" robots that crawl like sea turtles on the beach. A muscle...
View ArticleHuman brain mapped in unprecedented detail
Think of a spinning globe and the patchwork of countries it depicts: such maps help us to understand where we are, and that nations differ from one another. Now, neuroscientists have charted an...
View ArticleTiny robot unfolds in stomach, goes to work
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are designing an ingestible robot that could patch wounds, deliver medicine or dislodge a foreign object. They call their experiment an "origami...
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