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New robotic walker helps patients walk with a natural gait
The robotic walker moves with the user, instead of keeping them confined to a treadmill It can be a laborious business, teaching people such as victims of strokes or brain injuries to walk again....
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Breakthrough Research Leads to the 3D Printing of Pure Graphene Nanostructures
Some of you may be tired of me writing at great lengths about the extraordinary properties exhibited by the recently discovered material, graphene. One of the most conductive materials known to man,...
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Carnegie Mellon unveils Andy lunar rover
The Andy Rover is designed to explore rough lunar terrain ( Photo: CMU) Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has unveiled Andy, a four-wheeled unmanned rover designed to explore the rough terrain and...
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Naked Technology: Your Thoughts and Feelings Exposed
As we swim in a perpetual news cycle flooded by fictitious talking points and rhetoric, we thirst for authenticity. Propaganda no longer quenches our thirst for answers about the world. We have to find...
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Photocatalytic colour switching of redox dyes for ink-free light-printable...
First developed in China in about the year A.D. 150, paper has many uses, the most common being for writing and printing upon. Indeed, the development and spread of civilization owes much to paper's...
View ArticleResearchers use ultrasound to make invisible 3-D haptic shape that can be...
Technology has changed rapidly over the last few years with touch feedback, known as haptics, being used in entertainment, rehabilitation and even surgical training. New research, using ultrasound, has...
View ArticleHow to stop robots from taking your job
Rather than protect jobs or increase the minimum wage, we should consider improving our antiquated education system, says Ryan Feit, CEO of SeedInvest. The robots are coming and they want your job....
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Artificial Wind Tree provides a fig leaf for unsightly turbines
It's hard to argue with the clean and cost-effective nature of wind farms as an energy source, unless perhaps you happen to live nearby. Generally speaking, the peculiar appearance of wind turbines...
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The Monumental Challenge of Mapping the Human Brain
What’s keeping us from modeling a human brain, neuron by neuron, on a computer? There are a lot of projects that are trying to do just this, but you have to realize, the brain is by far the most...
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Organovo and Yale Announce Collaboration on 3D Bioprinting for Organ...
Without a doubt, the most exciting applications for 3D printing, reside within the medical field. Companies like San Diego-based Organovo (NYSE: ONVO) are making substantial progress within the area of...
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Are Humans Necessary?
Turning Point: European Union launches the world’s largest civilian robotics program. Welcome to The Future, one of our favorite playgrounds. We love dabbling about in it, as our numerous utopias and...
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Tulip solar power system gets its first commercial application
For five years now, a Tulip concentrating solar power plant has been operating at a kibbutz in Israel. In January 2012, a second one sprouted in Spain. While both plants have been successfully pumping...
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Dopamine helps with math rules as well as mood
Nerve cells in the prefrontal cortex (marked) can process “greater than” and “less than” rules better under the influence of dopamine. Credit: LS Tierphysiologie/University of Tübingen The chemical...
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New method could lead to cheap, spray-on solar power for flexible surfaces
The SprayLD system developed by University of Toronto researchers can spray colloidal quantum dots onto flexible surfaces Spray-on cells hold considerable promise for reducing the manufacturing costs...
View ArticleScientists re-create what may be life's first spark
Scientists in a lab used a powerful laser to re-create what might have been the original spark of life on Earth. The researchers zapped clay and a chemical soup with the laser to simulate the energy of...
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NASA study examines the effects of microgravity on the immune system
An oxygen burst released from leukocytes, magnified 20 times (Image: ESA) A new study by NASA intends to examine the detrimental effects of microgravity on the immune system, by studying the blood of...
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STRETCHY ARTIFICIAL SKIN LETS PROSTHETIC HAND SENSE HEAT, HUMIDITY, AND PRESSURE
Prosthetic limbs that can be controlled by an amputee’s thoughts or muscle movements already exist. But what if they could also sense the environment and then send that information back to the...
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ObjectForm Announces 100% Recycled 3D Printing Filaments
Additive manufacturing is, by its nature, more environmentally friendly than subtractive manufacturing methods; by using only the materials necessary for a particular production run, waste generation...
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Artificial Enzymes from Artificial DNA Challenge Life As We Know It
In the decade or so since the Human Genome Project was completed, synthetic biology has grown rapidly. Impressive advances include the first bacteria to use a chemically-synthesized genome and creation...
View ArticleNew Wireless Sensor Detects Hazardous Chemicals or Food Spoilage
Researchers from MIT have developed a new wireless sensor that can transmit information on hazardous chemicals or food spoilage to a smartphone. MIT chemists have devised a new way to wirelessly detect...
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