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Joshua Shavit
Sep 28, 2021
New light-weight and comfortable casts self-adjust during the healing process
Exoform is a compact, customizable and semi-rigid wearable material with self-fusing edges for immediate, adjustable and repeatable use.
Joshua Shavit
Sep 28, 2021
Who needs a boss? Study shows benefit of employees managing themselves
U.S. companies could benefit from encouraging and developing self-leadership in employees, a concept allowing workers to manage themselves.
Joshua Shavit
Sep 28, 2021
Artificial intelligence as an early warning system against runaway climate change
Researchers are developing artificial intelligence that could assess climate change tipping points and act as an early warning system.
Joshua Shavit
Sep 28, 2021
Researchers find human learning can be duplicated in solid matter
Researchers have found that learning -- a universal feature of intelligence in living beings -- can be mimicked in synthetic matter.
Joseph Shavit
Sep 27, 2021
Smartphone sensor data could detect if you are 'high'
A smartphone sensor, much like what is used in GPS systems, might be a way to determine whether or not someone is high from canibus.
Joshua Shavit
Sep 27, 2021
Can we just bury our carbon dioxide problem under the sea?
There's a global race to reduce the amount of harmful gases in our atmosphere to slow down the pace of climate change through carbon capture
Joshua Shavit
Sep 27, 2021
Strength training can burn fat too, myth-busting study finds
It’s basic exercise knowledge that to gain muscles, you strength train, and to lose fat, you do cardio – right? That's actually wrong!
Joshua Shavit
Sep 27, 2021
Are you ready for a 3D-printed house? They're cheaper, stronger and long-lasting
The three-bedroom home has a corduroy-patterned exterior, rounded corners—and a cement poured from an industrial-sized toothpaste tube.
Joseph Shavit
Sep 27, 2021
Scientists To Bring Woolly Mammoth Back From Extinction
The Woolly Mammoth went extinct 10,000 years ago, but the bioscientists and geneticists think they can bring it back.
Joshua Shavit
Sep 27, 2021
Flying cars are coming sooner than you think
While the idea of hovering motor vehicles might once have been considered farfetched, it's certainly not the case today.
Joshua Shavit
Sep 27, 2021
New research “sniffs out” how memories are formed
The ability to remember relationships between unrelated items (an odor and a location, a song and an event) is known as associative memory
Joshua Shavit
Sep 26, 2021
New DNA sensor can quickly determine whether viruses are infectious
A new sensor can distinguish infectious viruses from noninfectious ones thanks to selective DNA fragments and sensitive nanopore technology.
Joseph Shavit
Sep 26, 2021
Team creates micro-robots propelled by air bubbles and ultrasound
Some engineers find inspiration in the mechanics of bird flight and the architecture of bee nests. Others think much smaller.
Joshua Shavit
Sep 26, 2021
How robots can tell how clean is ‘clean’
Cleaning robots have evolved from disc-shaped vacuum cleaners found in homes to advanced models that can navigate complex spaces.
Joshua Shavit
Sep 26, 2021
Winged microchip is smallest-ever human-made flying structure
The size of a grain of sand, dispersed microfliers could monitor air pollution, airborne disease and environmental contamination.
Joshua Shavit
Sep 26, 2021
New insights into the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer
To accelerate discoveries for cancer patients, we need new ways to bring together the different types of complex data we generate.
Joshua Shavit
Sep 26, 2021
Can a novel light therapy help people with Alzheimers?
Researchers at Mount Sinai’s Light Health Research Center are developing new devices for delivering patients healthy doses of light.
Joshua Shavit
Sep 26, 2021
Intermittent fasting can help manage metabolic disease
Eating your daily calories within a consistent window of 8-10 hours is a powerful strategy to prevent and manage chronic diseases.
Joseph Shavit
Sep 25, 2021
New AI software can tell you where to apply makeup to fool facial recognition
Researchers have found a way to thwart facial recognition cameras using certain software-generated patterns and natural makeup techniques
Joseph Shavit
Sep 25, 2021
The cane-mounted sensor that helps visually-impaired people avoid outdoor obstacles
For the hundreds of thousands of blind people in France, moving around in an urban environment can be synonymous with falls and stress.
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