Brain Implant Allows Paralysed Woman to Communicate With Her Mind
She can now use the system at home to communicate with family and caregivers.
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She can now use the system at home to communicate with family and caregivers.
Ukraine’s environment minister, Ostap Semerak, described the start of the final construction phase as a historic step.
Seismologists are warning that the latest earthquake to strike New Zealand could trigger other large earthquakes in the coming days and weeks, but sensationalistic claims of a devastating “mega-quake” are likely overblown.
They’re still much higher than they should be, but at least they are stable.
Predicting the future is hard. It’s nearly impossible to know what technological marvels await in the next few years, let alone the next eight decades. Undaunted, we’ve put together a list of 10 super-advanced technologies that should be around by the year 2100.
Emanuele Fornasier ran an electric current through various chemical solutions and recorded the reaction to reveal the formation of crystals. It’s like seeing the birth of a snowflake.
A recent expedition to explore marine life in the Pacific has uncovered stunning new video of bubblegum coral. Read more >>
Watch how slime mould managed to, rather intelligently, crawl over everything all by itself. Read More >>
It's believed to be part of a Chinese satellite.
The fossilised remains were preserved with its limbs outstretched, and its head raised—suggesting it was hopelessly stuck in a patch of mud, where it eventually died.
New 3D modelling analysis shows that the lander’s failure to communicate with the Earth was likely due to a single jammed solar panel.
Ready to flee planet Earth yet?
All hail the Brazilian free-tailed bat, which has just claimed a new flight speed record for all mammal-kind.
British red squirrels are being afflicted by a medieval strain of leprosy that was thought to have disappeared from Europe over 700 years ago.
The medical device was created by scientists at Imperial College London and tech firm DNA Electronics.
For the first time ever, a neural device has been used to restore locomotion in paralysed primates. It may be years before clinical trials can begin for humans, but this latest breakthrough marks an important step in that direction.
