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Cognitive Strategies For Augmenting The Body With A Wearable, Robotic Arm
Neuroengineer Silvestro Micera develops advanced technological solutions to help people regain sensory and motor…
Coevolution Helps Santa’s Reindeer Feast After Flight
When Santa's exhausted reindeer finally set down their sleigh in the deep snow of the North Pole early Christmas…
AI System Self-Organizes to Develop Features of Brains of Complex Organisms
Cambridge scientists have shown that placing physical constraints on an artificially-intelligent system -- in much…
Some Icy Exoplanets May Have Habitable Oceans and Geysers
A NASA study expands the search for life beyond our solar system by indicating that 17 exoplanets (worlds outside…
People Watched Other People Shake Boxes for Science: Here’s Why
When researchers asked hundreds of people to watch other people shake boxes, it took just seconds for almost all…
Heart Over Head? Stages of the Heart’s Cycle Affect Neural Responses
Optimal windows exist for action and perception during the 0.8 seconds of a heartbeat, according to research…
Brain Implant May Enable Communication From Thoughts Alone
A speech prosthetic developed by a collaborative team of Duke neuroscientists, neurosurgeons, and engineers can…
Any Activity Is Better for Your Heart Than Sitting — Even Sleeping
The study, supported by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) and published in the European Heart Journal, is…
Ocean Heat Waves Often Lurk Out of Sight
Heat waves don’t just strike on land — they can also occur in the ocean. And roughly a third of marine heat…
AI Faces Look More Real Than Actual Human Face
White faces generated by artificial intelligence (AI) now appear more real than human faces, according to new…