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Joseph Shavit
Feb 16, 2022
Biohybrid fish made from heart muscle cells swims and could lead to artificial hearts
Researchers have developed the first fully autonomous biohybrid fish from human stem-cell derived cardiac muscle cells.
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Joseph Shavit
Feb 16, 2022
An innovative technology for 6G communication networks
A new waveguide could revolutionize THz signal transmission and processing for faster and broader communication links.
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Joseph Shavit
Feb 15, 2022
Three-prong treatment eliminates cancer tumors in five minutes
Researchers have developed a nanoplatform that non-invasively eliminates solid liver cancer tumors with a single five-minute dose.
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Joseph Shavit
Feb 15, 2022
Scientists use quantum entangled light to improve microscope sensitivity by 50%
Scientists use quantum entangled light for a new form of microscopy able to detect signals normally hidden by quantum noise.
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Joseph Shavit
Feb 15, 2022
Scientists create a 'Smart Necklace' for silent speech recognition
Speech recognition technology allows us to ask Siri to check the weather for tomorrow, or to ask Alexa to play our favorite song.
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Joseph Shavit
Feb 14, 2022
Bizarre 'metamaterial' helmet creates higher resolution brain scans
This gadget made of plastic and copper wire is a technological breakthrough with the potential to revolutionize medical imaging.
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Joseph Shavit
Feb 14, 2022
Gamechanging armband helps users of prosthetic hands to ‘get a grip’
Researchers design first-of-its-kind multichannel soft robotic armband that conveys artificial sensations of touch.
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Joseph Shavit
Feb 14, 2022
Smartphone app can vibrate a single drop of blood to determine how well it clots
Researchers have developed a new blood-clotting test that uses only a single drop of blood and a smartphone vibration motor and camera.
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Joseph Shavit
Feb 13, 2022
Scientists discover 9 new coronaviruses using $24,000 Amazon supercomputer
The Serratus Project is a supercomputing collaboration that analyzed close to 6 million biological samples, or 20 million gigabytes of data.
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Joseph Shavit
Feb 12, 2022
Transparent wood promises to become the window to the future?
Many different types of wood, from balsa to oak, can be made transparent, and it doesn’t matter if it is cut along the grain or against it.
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Joseph Shavit
Feb 12, 2022
Sony AI Unveils Gran Turismo Sophy, a Breakthrough in AI
the first superhuman AI agent to outrace the world's best drivers of the highly realistic PlayStation® racing simulation game.
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Joseph Shavit
Feb 11, 2022
Researchers make non-alcoholic beer taste like regular beer
When you remove the alcohol from the beer, for example by heating it up, you also kill the aroma that comes from hops.
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Joseph Shavit
Feb 11, 2022
Hand-cranked washing machine could sustainably help 5 billion people
Handwashing clothes sounds like a simple task, but for many women around the world it poses a significant obstacle to their wellbeing.
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Joseph Shavit
Feb 10, 2022
Need to chill? Smartwatch accurately measures your stress level in real-time
Cortisol is well-suited for measurement in wearable devices, because its concentration levels in sweat are similar to its circulating levels
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Joseph Shavit
Feb 10, 2022
Sea pineapples and blood waste boosts battery performance
Sea pineapples, an edible ascidian, are a delicacy in Japan. The Tohoku region is famed for its sea pineapple production - known as hoya .
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Joseph Shavit
Feb 9, 2022
Scientists are toilet-training cows to save the planet
On a farm where cows freely relieve themselves as they graze, the accumulation and spread of waste often contaminates soil and waterways.
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Joseph Shavit
Feb 9, 2022
'Bionic' pacemaker reverses heart failure
A revolutionary pacemaker that re-establishes the heart’s naturally irregular beat is set to be trialled in heart patients this year.
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Joseph Shavit
Feb 8, 2022
Smartphone reminders can improve memory for older adults with dementia
Adults with dementia or mild cognitive impairment were able to improve their memory by using a personal assistant app on their smartphones.
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Joseph Shavit
Feb 8, 2022
Prostate cancer antibody drug shows success in dogs
Dogs are proving to be a far better scientific model for study of prostate cancer than mice, the typical animal used in the lab.
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Joseph Shavit
Feb 8, 2022
Breakthrough spinal cord implant enables paralyzed people to walk again
Paralysis from spinal injury has long remained untreatable. Could new developments get people on their feet again sooner than imagined?
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