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A “bi-sensory” treatment combining precisely timed sound and touch has shown impressive results in reducing people’s experience of tinnitus, a common and debilitating form of hearing damage that presents as an incessant ringing sound in the ears.Contin… Continue reading Ring-busting tinnitus treatment combines sound and touch stimulation
Scientific work often involves sifting through enormous amounts of data, a task that’s overwhelmingly mundane for humans but a piece of cake for artificial intelligence. A new platform dubbed BacterAI can conduct as many as 10,000 experiments per day t… Continue reading AI runs 10,000 experiments a day on bacteria to speed up discoveries
Using touchscreens or pushbuttons to control devices isn’t always practical, and voice commands may not work in loud environments. A new system offers an alternative, in that it utilizes acoustic waves which travel across the surface of existing object… Continue reading SAWSense tech turns almost any surface into a tactile interface
3D concrete printing (3DCP) technology is already known to offer a more efficient approach to constructing buildings. A new type of 3DCP, however, is said to be even better, resulting in walls that are a claimed 72% lighter than their conventional coun… Continue reading Shell Wall tech claimed to reduce weight of concrete walls by over 70%
Organ transplants can save lives, but unfortunately organs don’t last long in storage. Now scientists have demonstrated that an existing drug can reprogram donor hearts to last much longer outside the body, and reduce their risk of failure after transp… Continue reading Drug reprograms donor hearts for longer storage and safer transplants
Most of what we know about ancient extinct animals comes from their bones, since soft tissues don’t usually fossilize well. But now, scientists have discovered the oldest preserved vertebrate brain, in a fossilized fish almost 320 million years old.
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Continue reading World’s oldest vertebrate brain found in 319-million-year-old fossil
Most of what we know about ancient extinct animals comes from their bones, since soft tissues don’t usually fossilize well. But now, scientists have discovered the oldest preserved vertebrate brain, in a fossilized fish almost 320 million years old.
Tags: Fossils, Fish, Brain, University of Michigan, World’s Oldest
Continue reading World’s oldest vertebrate brain found in 319-million-year-old fossil
We are a solar-powered planet; the vast majority of energy needed for life on Earth comes from the sun – and a lot of it, including food and fossil fuels, is the result of plant-based photosynthesis – the conversion of sunlight, water and carbon dioxid… Continue reading Concentrated photosynthesis device promises cheap green hydrogen
Heart disease is the number one cause of death in the United States and treatments are still surprisingly limited. Other than reducing cholesterol levels with statins, most treatments are indirect, such as preventing diabetes and high blood pressure, o… Continue reading Immune protein discovery points to new heart disease treatment
Advances in chemistry continue to bring new materials into the realm of recyclability, and new work from a team at the University of Michigan has taken aim at one of the most problematic to reuse. The scientists have developed a method of converting wa… Continue reading Chemistry breakthrough creates usable products out of unrecyclable PVC