Out-of-body experiments show kids’ budding sense of self (05/04/2017)
Children as young as age 6 have body awareness needed to identify with avatar of themselves
Infrared system could deliver 40 Gbps wireless networks (31/03/2017)
Wi-Fi
works by sending information via radio waves, but systems that rely on light –
be it infrared or visible – have the potential to achieve much faster speeds. A
system proposed by a team at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) uses
infrared rays beamed down from antennas in the ceiling and is claimed to be
capable of data transfer rates of over 40 Gbps, regardless of how many devices
are hooking into the network.
Computer program developed to diagnose and locate cancer from a blood sample (31/03/2017)
Researchers in the United States have
developed a computer program that can simultaneously detect cancer and identify
where in the body the cancer is located, from a patient's blood sample.
Using big data to analyze images, video better than the human brain (31/03/2017)
Improving traffic safety, better health
services and environmental benefits -- Big Data experts see a wide range of
possibilities for advanced image analysis and recognition technology.
Method speeds testing of new networking protocols (31/03/2017)
Researchers present a system for testing new traffic
management protocols that requires no alteration to network hardware but still
works at realistic speeds -- 20 times as fast as networks of
software-controlled routers.
Big data approach to predict protein structure (31/03/2017)
Nothing works without proteins in the body;
they are the molecular all-rounders in our cells. If they do not work properly,
severe diseases, such as Alzheimer's, may result. To develop methods to repair
malfunctioning proteins, their structure has to be known. Using a big data
approach, researchers have now developed a method to predict protein structures.
Controlling turtle motion with human thought (31/03/2017)
Researchers have developed a
technology that can remotely control an animal's movement with human thought.
Physics can predict wealth inequality (30/03/2017)
The
2016 election year highlighted the growing problem of wealth inequality and
finding ways to help the people who are falling behind. This human urge of
compassion isn’t new, but the big question that remains to be addressed is why
inequality is so difficult to erase.
Secret of nanomaterial that makes harvesting sunlight easier (30/03/2017)
Using sunlight to drive chemical
reactions, such as artificial photosynthesis, could soon become much more
efficient thanks to nanomaterials.
Organic-inorganic heterostructures with programmable electronic properties (30/03/2017)
Researchers
have devised a novel supramolecular strategy to introduce tunable 1D periodic
potentials upon self-assembly of ad hoc organic building blocks on graphene,
opening the way to the realization of hybrid organic-inorganic multilayer
materials with unique electronic and optical properties.