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Guided by machine-learning models that predicted what would make Belgian beer taste more appealing, researchers tinkered with the golden nectar’s composition, greatly impressing blind taste testers. The method may lead to new recipes and improved taste… Continue reading Beer-tasting Belgian AI makes better brews than humans
The James Webb Space Telescope has made the first direct analysis of clouds on a nearby alien world. These aren’t just made of water vapor but also sand, which would move around the planet much like Earth’s water cycle.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, … Continue reading Sand forms clouds and rain on nearby alien planet, says Webb
For the second consecutive time, a team from Belgium has landed in first place in the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge (BWSC), a competition that sees dozens of innovative solar vehicles race across the often punishing continent of Australia.Continue … Continue reading Fin-topped solar car soars through winds and wildfires to victory
If you’ve ever taken a long airplane ride, you’ve no doubt heard that you should get up and move periodically to avoid developing blood clots. That’s because when our bodies are stationary for long periods of time, the odds of our blood pooling, coagul… Continue reading “Swiss Army knife” bears reveal anti-blood-clotting secret
Although cochlear implants do allow some deaf people to hear again, adjusting the devices to individual users can be challenging. An experimental new implant is designed to help in that regard, by reading the user’s brain waves.Continue ReadingCategory… Continue reading Brain wave-reading implant could better help the deaf to hear
Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), including ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease, are unpleasant, chronic conditions with few effective treatment options. Now, researchers at KU Leuven and Seoul National University may have found a way to potentiall… Continue reading Immune cell “switch” helps send inflammatory bowel disease into remission
Hearing aids are often stymied by the “cocktail party” effect, wherein they can’t amplify one person’s voice without also boosting the voices of everyone else in the room. A new AI system, however, could help focus the devices’ attention where it’s nee… Continue reading Brain-reading hearing aid tech homes in on speakers’ voices
Viruses can be tricky foes, but researchers in Europe have uncovered a new weakness that could be exploited to produce new antiviral drugs. The team discovered a compound that can prevent certain classes of viruses from infecting cells, pavin… Continue reading Exploiting a newly-discovered weakness in the cold virus opens new antiviral avenue
Raspberry Pi’s processing power versus Tesla’s Model X cryptography – victory for the little guy! Continue reading Drive away a Tesla today (even if it isn’t yours)