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The world’s shortest laser pulse: Seeing electron movement during chemical reactions
In order to fully understand the dynamics during a chemical reaction, scientists must be able to study all movements of atoms and molecules on...
How a $10 microchip turns 2-D ultrasound machines into 3-D imaging devices
Technology that keeps track of how your smartphone is oriented can now give $50,000 ultrasound machines many of the 3-D imaging abilities of their...
Eyes : automatic visual reflexes that go on without awareness
The eyes are for seeing, but they have other important biological functions, including automatic visual reflexes that go on without awareness.
The reflexive system of...
Humans don’t use as much brainpower
For years, scientists assumed that humans devote a larger share of their daily calories to their brains than other animals. Although the human brain...
Virtual Reality Reduces Phantom Pain in Paraplegics
In breakthrough research led by neuroscientist Olaf Blanke and his team at EPFL, Switzerland, the scientists show that phantom body pain can be reduced...
Reports brain cells are made up of less polyunsaturated fatty acids than other major...
A discovery made by Junhwan Kim, PhD, assistant professor at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, is challenging science’s longstanding beliefs regarding the cellular...
Concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere highest level in 800,000 years
Globally averaged concentrations of CO2 reached 403.3 parts per million in 2016, up from 400.00 ppm in 2015 because of a combination of human activities...
Malicious Chrome Extension Steals ‘All Posted Data’ without Login Credentials
The trend of spreading adware, banking Trojans and malicious malware through compromised or fake browser extensions seems to be increasing.
Lately, there have been quite a few incidents where...
unCAPTCHA algorithm can Crack Google’s AI System reCAPTCHA
A new algorithm called unCAPTCHA has been developed by researchers from the University of Maryland.
It can defeat the reCAPTCHA system developed by Google to boost its...
USB Stick with Heathrow Security and Queen’s Data Found on London Street
According to reports from the Sunday Mirror, a USB device was found lying on the street in West London having sensitive data belonging to Heathrow security.
An unnamed individual...
AI allows programmers to transplant code from one program into another
Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed a new system that allows programmers to transplant code from one program...
Robots and AI will soon be able to fix themselves
Robots and AI are replacing workers at an alarming rate, from simple manual tasks to making complex legal decisions and medical diagnoses. But the AI...
DNA techniques could transform facial recognition technology
When police in London recently trialled a new facial recognition system, they made a worrying and embarrassing mistake.
At the Notting Hill Carnival, the technology...
New York’s power plants now protected, using Israel’s Iron Dome technology
Working with mPrest, the Israeli company that developed the Iron Dome missile defense technology, the New York Power Authority (NYPA) will now be able...
Individual with complete spinal cord injury regains voluntary motor function
A study published today in Scientific Reports describes the recovery of motor function in a research participant who previously had received long-term activity-based training along with...
