by Alfred Poor | August 1, 2016 | General News, Health
It’s 2 o’clock in the morning and you wake up with a brilliant idea for a new product that will help millions of people. When the cold light of dawn comes, you stop and consider how you’ll navigate the maze of government rules and regulations in...
by Bruce Brown | July 29, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Brain mapping just made a huge leap forward. A group of researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and from six other research centers have more than doubled the known number of distinct areas on the outer layer of the human brain, also known as the cortex or...
by Alfred Poor | July 29, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Radio waves are all around us all the time. In most parts of developed countries (and many under-developed regions as well), cell phone base towers provide a steady source of broadcast signals. Scientists refer to this as “ambient power” — power that...
by Bruce Brown | July 28, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
The hearables market is poised for rapid expansion. Hearable devices are more than just smart headphones or earbuds for enhanced entertainment or smartphone calls. The span of additional applications ranges from noise cancellation and programmable frequency...
by Alfred Poor | July 28, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
“Give a kid a hammer, and the whole world looks like a nail.” It’s natural to try to solve problems using familiar tools, which explains why engineers turn to gears and pulleys and wheels and hinges when trying to create a robot that simulates human...
by Bruce Brown | July 27, 2016 | General News, Medical
When a mammal’s central nervous system nerves are cut or destroyed, they typically don’t regrow. That conventional understanding may be challenged by a study of regrowth of retinal ganglion cell axons in mice. The potential long-term ramifications of nerve...
