Jun 25, 2015
The Living, Breathing ‘Human on a Chip’ Is Coming
Posted by Albert Sanchez in category: biotech/medical
Researchers are combining human cells and polymers to make a very trippy contraption for medical testing.
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Jun 25, 2015
Some People Can’t Conjure Mental Images. Are You One of Them?
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: neuroscience
Mentally count the windows in your home. Did you close your eyes? Visualize your house’s layout in your head? I did, when I tried this task. But some people, researchers have discovered, seem to be incapable of producing and holding such images in their mind’s eye. (They’re also perfectly capable of answering the window question.)
Jun 25, 2015
OS Fermentation Salon Series — By EcoArtTech
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: biological, chemistry, food, health
“OS FERMENTATION events have included installations, workshops, prints, and tastings. The installation includes digital prints created by custom electronics and software that allow microbes to take their own “selfies” and add image manipulation effects to their images based on the shifting pH levels, oxygen, and color values of the fermentation process.”
Jun 25, 2015
We Are 100%, For Sure, in the Middle of a Major Extinction Event — Kaleigh Rogers | Motherboard
Posted by Seb in categories: environmental, existential risks, human trajectories
“Even using conservative estimates, the researchers found that the rate of extinction in the last 115 years is as high as 50 times what it would be under normal circumstances.” Read more
Jun 24, 2015
NASA Plans To Use Nukes On Potential Doomsday Asteroid
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: existential risks, space
If NASA has its way, the human race won’t be going the way of the dinosaurs any time soon.
The space agency is teaming up with the National Nuclear Security Administration to work on a planetary defense plan to deflect a potential doomsday asteroid so it doesn’t strike Earth, according to The New York Times.
Jun 24, 2015
Water splitter produces clean-burning hydrogen fuel 24/7
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: energy
Unlike conventional water splitters, the Stanford device uses a single low-cost catalyst to generate hydrogen on one electrode and oxygen on the other (credit: L.A. Cicero/Stanford University)
Jun 24, 2015
3 New Kinds of Battery That Just Might Change the World
Posted by Bryan Gatton in categories: cyborgs, energy, futurism
Jun 24, 2015
Brain-to-text: decoding spoken phrases from phone representations in the brain — Frontiers of Neuroscience
Posted by Seb in category: neuroscience
“Here, we show for the first time that continuously spoken speech can be decoded into the expressed words from intracranial electrocorticographic (ECoG) recordings.” Read more
Jun 24, 2015
Dwarf Galaxies Loom Large in Quest for Dark Matter
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: anti-gravity, astronomy, cosmology, energy, general relativity, particle physics, space
“In its inaugural year of observations, the Dark Energy Survey has already turned up at least eight objects that look to be new satellite dwarf galaxies of the Milky Way.”
Jun 23, 2015
FDA Approves BrainPort, Device That Allows The Blind To ‘See’ With Their Tongues
Posted by Lily Graca in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
The FDA-approved BrainPort V100 translates visual images into vibrations that can be felt on the tongue to help users better understand their surroundings.
