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Apr 15, 2022

Multiple sclerosis ‘breakthrough’ as scientists ‘reverse symptoms’ with transplant

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

The condition stays with you for life once diagnosed, but treatments and specialists can help to manage the condition and its symptoms.

Experts are still unsure exactly what triggers the condition that affects more than 130,000 people in the UK.

According to the MS Society, people are most likely to find out they have MS in their thirties, forties and fifties in Britain, and the condition affects almost three times as many women as men.

Apr 15, 2022

Robots to cure Brain Disorder, startup sends miniature robot into Human Brain | WION

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI

California-based startup Bionaut Labs announces a unique robot. They are planning to send miniature robots deep inside into human skull to treat brain disorders. They will be using magnetic energy to propel the robots rather than optical or ultrasonic techniques.

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Apr 15, 2022

To Escape Elon Musk, Twitter May Need To Sell Itself To … Microsoft?

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, sustainability, transportation

Twitter could run out of options and need to find a so-called white knight, a friendly buyer that it views as more suitable than the electric-car mogul.

Apr 15, 2022

We Went Inside the Largest Nuclear Fusion Reactor

Posted by in category: nuclear energy

This could be the most important construction project of our lifetimes. See how digital tools are enabling the ITER project — https://bit.ly/3KGfiF8

Full story here — https://theb1m.com/video/inside-iter-worlds-largest-nuclear-fusion-reactor.

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Apr 15, 2022

Tiny test tubes: Reshaping brain cells for Alzheimer’s study

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, neuroscience

By isolating and reprogramming brain cells with dementia-causing genetic mutations, a team at JAX offers a powerful new research tool.

Apr 15, 2022

Robots designed to self-construct

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Robot researcher Mark Yim offers a look inside the promising field of modular reconfigurable robotics — bots that can shift form to tackle an array of tasks.

Apr 15, 2022

Singapore’s Solar Concentrator Harvests Daylight and Sends It Underground

Posted by in category: futurism

This compact solar concentrator could be the perfect daylight harvesting device for Singapore’s underground spaces.

Apr 15, 2022

These Supermassive Black Holes are About to Collide

Posted by in category: cosmology

Scientists have discovered two supermassive black holes, locked together in a final, terrible spiral. They’re about to collide. And when they do, it will shake the fabric of spacetime itself.

Combing through decades of radio telescope observation data, a team of Caltech astronomers discovered a radio pattern from the deep sky unlike anything ever observed before. It was a flickering point of light, a blazar some nine billion light-years away. Every five years, it waxed and waned in brightness in a perfect sine wave, like clockwork. But that’s not what made it special. What made it special is where the signal diverged from the pattern. Over nearly fifty years, this point of light had obeyed a clockwork cycle of five-year pulses — except for the twenty years where it didn’t.

Five other observatories confirmed the readings, including the University of Michigan Radio Astronomy Observatory, MIT’s Haystack Observatory, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), Metsähovi Radio Observatory in Finland, and NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) space satellite. This was no error.

Apr 15, 2022

Tracking the neural circuitry underlying behavior

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

Understanding how we use our brain to make decisions is a daunting task, given our brain’s extensive webs of neural wiring and circuitry. Now, JAX researchers Erik Bloss and Kourtney Graham are using a surprising tool to investigate goal-directed behaviors: the rabies virus.

Apr 15, 2022

AI and jobs: Where humans are better than algorithms, and vice versa

Posted by in categories: employment, information science, robotics/AI

It’s easy to get caught up in the doom-and-gloom predictions about artificial intelligence wiping out millions of jobs. Here’s a reality check.