Bringing a Human Touch to Modern ProstheticsJune 21, 2018 |
‘Electronic skin’ allows user to experience a sense of touch and pain; ‘After many years, I felt my hand, as if a hollow shell got filled with life again,’ amputee volunteer says
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A tapeworm is essentially a very long, parasitic towel with a grappling hook for a head. It attaches itself to the internal organs of its host with its fiendish head spines, and it absorbs nutrients through its tagliatelle-shaped body. Once fastened, it does very little. And yet, this very simple creature can manipulate the minds of more complex animals—even without infecting them
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Will thinking bots like the ones on HBO’s hit series ever be a thing?
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Flinching as a gunshot whizzes past your window. Covering your ears when a police car races down your street, sirens blaring. Walking past a drug deal on your block or a beating at your school. For kids living in picket-fence suburbia, these experiences might be rare. But for their peers in urban poverty, they are all too commonplace
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Now PlayingMay 25, 2018 |
A movie you control with your mind. Richard Ramchurn’s The Moment lets you play film director, using just your brainwaves
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How Understanding Pain Could Curb Opioid AddictionMay 15, 2018 |
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee unanimously approved a bill in April 2018 designed to address the opioid crisis. The bill called the Opioid Crisis Response Act of 2018 covers much of the same territory as the 138-page report released in November 2017 by a commission appointed by President Donald Trump
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Memory Transferred Between SnailsMay 14, 2018 |
Challenging standard theory of how the brain remembers. UCLA neuroscientists reported Monday that they have transferred a memory from one animal to another via injections of RNA, a startling result that challenges the widely held view of where and how memories are stored in the brain
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The Science of the Plot TwistMay 11, 2018 |
“Recently I did something that many people would consider unthinkable, or at least perverse. Before going to see “Avengers: Infinity War,” I deliberately read a review that revealed all of the major plot points, from start to finish.” Vera Tobin writes, “As a cognitive scientist who studies the relationship between cognition and narratives, I know that movies – like all stories – exploit our natural tendency to anticipate what’s coming next”
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