Mind reading – scientists translate brain signals into words
Posted by admin in Medicine, Science on 09. Sep, 2010 | 0 Comments
Larger, numbered button-like electrodes (ECoGs) alongside the microECoGs indicated by the 4×4 circle grid at the end of the green and orange wires on the brain of a volunteer patient Using the same technology that allowed them to accurately detect the brain signals controlling arm movements that we looked at last year, researchers at the [...]
Development of Tiny Thorium Reactors Could Wean the World Off Oil In Just Five Years
Posted by admin in Science on 31. Aug, 2010 | 0 Comments
Thorium One ton of thorium can produce as much energy as 200 tons of uranium and 3.5 million tons of coal, according to the former director of CERN. An abundant metal with vast energy potential could quickly wean the world off oil, if only Western political leaders would muster the will to do it, a [...]
Scientists hope to collect electricity from the air
Posted by admin in Science on 26. Aug, 2010 | 0 Comments
‘Hygroelectric’ collectors could someday harness atmospheric electricity Nikola Tesla once dreamed of being able to harness electricity from the air. Now, research being conducted at Brazil’s University of Campinas (UC) is indicating that such a scenario may indeed become a reality. Professor Fernando Galembeck, a UC chemist, is leading the study into the ways in [...]
Zombie DNA Long Thought Dormant Can Rise to Cause Health Problems
Posted by admin in Medicine, Science on 21. Aug, 2010 | 0 Comments
Zombie DNA Some of that DNA is dead. And some could be undead. Perhaps the only thing scarier than the living dead is finding out that they’re already inside the house. Geneticists recently found that non-coding genes — some of the many dotting the human genome — can rise from the dead. When they do [...]
Synthetic Diamonds Offer Key to Razor Blades That Last Years, Not Weeks
Posted by admin in Science on 20. Aug, 2010 | 0 Comments
Hair today, gone tomorrow? A diamond-tipped razor blade from Germany could soon supplant its disposable counterpart in the face-shaving department—and we’re not just splitting follicles. Developed by Gesellschaft für Diamantprodukte (GFD) in Ulm, the Diamaze PSD comprises a tungsten carbide blade that is coated with a film of synthetic, industrial-grade diamonds. Sharpened to produce a [...]
