How Did This Escaped Chimp Not Get Zapped Into Oblivion?
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The clever device uses an artificial neural bypass that reroutes signals from Burkhart’s brain to the affected muscles.
Having test subjects play online games showed researchers how humans still best computers are intuition.
Bed bugs are able to ward off insecticides with a tough new evolutionary development.
We’ve all experienced that moment of dismay: opening a fresh can of mixed nuts, only to find loathed Brazil nuts at the top of the heap, with the tasty cashews and trusty peanuts all the way down at the bottom. It’s called the Brazil Nut Effect. There’s well-known physics behind why this happens, but it’s a lot more complicated than you might think. Read more >>
A cool new website lets you get under the hood of artificial intelligence software systems.
Sean Parker, the billionaire co-founder of Napster and the first president of Facebook, has announced a £176.5m initiative to accelerate the development of effective cancer treatments.
Previous calculations have shown that Carbyne is stronger than both graphene and diamond, and around twice as stiff as the stiffest known materials.
Hawking and Co.'s nano-craft hold great promise for what we could find in our solar system and beyond, in incredibly quick time.
Scientists have come up with a new potential use for both graphene and little robots, suggesting that a fleet of "graphene oxide-based microbots" might one day swim around everywhere, hoovering up all the chemicals we spew into the world. Read more >>
Researchers working off the coast of Panama have captured unprecedented footage showing thousands of red crabs swarming together in the oxygen-deprived waters just above the seafloor. It looks like some sort of alien invasion. Read more >>
Over the weekend, SpaceX delivered the International Space Station’s first inflatable module—but there’s more where that came from.
Charles Darwin famously imagined evolution as a tree full of branches, a metaphor that has since stuck with scientists – and has now been updated.
These new findings from Tel Aviv University are not without their controversies and criticisms.
Groundbreaking work from Imperial College London reveals the drug's dramatic mental effects, while pointing toward therapeutical applications.
