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Joseph Shavit
Nov 1, 2021
Brain Implant Gives Blind Woman Artificial Vision in Scientific First
Brain implant allows patient to see shapes, letters after more than 16 years of blindness.
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Joseph Shavit
Oct 31, 2021
Revolutionary new device treats hearing loss without batteries
Researchers report a conductive membrane, which translated sound waves into matching electrical signals when implanted inside a model ear.
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Joseph Shavit
Oct 30, 2021
Web-slinging robots in space
Preventing pieces of space debris from crashing into each other is a problem engineers have been grappling with for decades.
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Joseph Shavit
Oct 29, 2021
Robot umpires are coming to baseball. Will they strike out?
Baseball fans know the bitter heartbreak of calls that don't go their way—especially, a ball that should've been a strike.
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Joseph Shavit
Oct 29, 2021
Computer scientists develop method for identifying disease biomarkers with high accuracy
Researchers are developing a deep learning network capable of detecting disease biomarkers with a much higher degree of accuracy.
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Joseph Shavit
Oct 28, 2021
New lamp generates light for 45 days with half-liter of salt water
The Waterlight lamp was awarded a Silver Cannes in the design category and two bronzes in innovation and social responsibility.
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Joshua Shavit
Oct 28, 2021
Feeling depressed? Columbia University researchers developed an app to help
Research shows that training primary care physicians in to identify and treat depression can improve patient outcomes and even save lives.
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Joseph Shavit
Oct 28, 2021
Building real buildings on the blockchain
Buildings that own and run themselves: this idea, from the think-tank Dezentrum, was put into action for the first time in a prototype.
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Joshua Shavit
Oct 28, 2021
Canada hospitals use drones to carry lungs for transplant
In the dark of night, a drone takes off from a Toronto hospital rooftop, the hum of its rotors barely audible over the bustling cars.
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Joshua Shavit
Oct 27, 2021
Skin-inspired sensors show how our body moves
Scientists have created wearable, stitchable, and sensitive sensors from flexible polymers and bundles of carbon fiber.
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Joseph Shavit
Oct 27, 2021
Dutch company unveils $5.8 million electric 'Super Sub' -- 3x faster than competition
The sub is two knots faster than the top cruising speed of a bottlenose dolphin, and five knots faster than the average submersible.
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Joshua Shavit
Oct 26, 2021
A flexible space telescope lens that can be rolled for launch and unfurled in space
The lightweight flexible holographic lenses, many meters in diameter, could be rolled for launch and unfurled in space.
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Joshua Shavit
Oct 26, 2021
Researchers develop new shape-shifting materials with infinite possibilities
Researchers have developed a shape-shifting material that can take and hold any possible shape, paving the way for a new types of materials.
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Joshua Shavit
Oct 25, 2021
Stretchy, bendy, flexible PeLEDs may be the first step in an electronics revolution
Sure, you could attach two screens with a hinge and call a cell phone “foldable,” but what if you could roll it up and put it in your wallet
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Joshua Shavit
Oct 25, 2021
New material paves the way for more powerful and safer batteries
Researchers are working to replace the liquids commonly used in today’s lithium ion batteries with solid materials.
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Joseph Shavit
Oct 24, 2021
Inflatable housing start-up Spartan Space is preparing for lunar habitation
TechTheMoon, the first incubator dedicated exclusively to the Moon, welcomes its first five start-ups. They will facilitate life on the moon
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Joseph Shavit
Oct 23, 2021
Would you get an eye scan in exchange for free cryptocurrency?
It sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie — metallic orbs that scan people’s eyes to pay them in digital currency.
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Joseph Shavit
Oct 23, 2021
'Ray guns' let scientists use light instead of DNA to tell plant populations apart
In this new study, we've shown that you can use light instead of DNA to define plant populations, at a similar level of detail.
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Joseph Shavit
Oct 22, 2021
New technology can make manual labor 60 percent easier
EksoVests, a type of exoskeletons, can reduce muscle strain by 60 percent for workers in the industrial, logistics and construction sectors
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Joseph Shavit
Oct 22, 2021
Researchers develop self-healing polymers for cracked cellphone screens
Two Concordia researchers from the Oh Research Group in the Faculty of Arts and Science are looking at ways to "self-heal" your cellphone.
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