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Three paraplegics walk again one day after receiving an electronic implant
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Posted on February 11, 2022
Neuroscientists in Switzerland create a technology that enables people with spinal cord injuries to regain movement in a day. Three people who had been left paraplegic after motorcycle accidents have managed to get back on their feet. It has been thanks to a surgical intervention to implant 16 electrodes directly on his spinal cord…
Read MoreA lamp that illuminates 45 days with half a litre of salt water
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Posted on September 24, 2021
Colombian designer Miguel Mojica, based in Valencia (eastern Spain), in collaboration with the renewable energy company E-dina and with Wunderman Thompson Colombia, has created a lamp that generates light for 45 days using only half a litre of salt water…
Read MoreUpcoming vaccines that help cure drug addiction by inhibiting its effects
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Posted on August 17, 2021
The fight against addiction is entering a phase never seen before: that of immunotherapy. A revolution that has been in the making for a decade and is finally beginning to bear fruit... Imagine a vaccine against cocaine. One prick and the addict becomes immune to the effect of the drug. Since you no longer feel euphoria or pleasure, consuming loses all incentive…
Read MoreGreat news: just living peacefully is a reason to be happy
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Posted on July 26, 2021
I remember when I was in primary school, my Social Science teacher used to tell us interesting anecdotes. He once mentioned there was a popular saying, "No News is Good News". Well, it makes sense every time I watch the News on TV, or read a newspaper, they tell so much bad news! My mood is rarely better after watching or reading them…
Read MoreParkinson's patients successfully treated without surgery
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Posted on July 5, 2021
Spanish researchers confirm the efficacy of a cutting-edge treatment that allows a minimally invasive approach to safely and effectively treat the motor manifestations of Parkinson's disease…
Read MoreGerman scientists find cause and solution to AstraZeneca and Janssen thrombi
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Posted on May 28, 2021
As of today, the United Kingdom has registered 309 cases of thrombi among the 33 million people who have received the AstraZeneca vaccine. In Europe, the figure is 142 among the 16 million who have received the drug from Oxford and Janssen. A group of German scientists claims to have discovered the cause of thrombi caused by these vaccines…
Read MoreAlgae, a new form of ecological construction
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Posted on May 26, 2021
Currently, algae are being used to feed livestock, produce textiles and biofuel. These plant organisms are also now being used in construction as an environmentally responsible solution…
Read MoreA tetraplegic capable of writing with his mind with brain chips
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Posted on May 12, 2021
The typing speed of a spinal cord injured was close to that of other people typing on their mobile. Sensors in the brain of a tetraplegic have captured neural activity while imagining that he was writing and have converted it, letter by letter, into text. This brain-computer interface (BCI) has achieved a writing speed close to that of anybody while typing on a mobile phone…
Read MorePhilippine students need to plant 10 trees to graduate
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Posted on April 6, 2021
To regain its forest cover and see forests grow again, the Philippines introduced an interesting law that requires each student to plant 10 trees before graduation. Deforestation constitutes one of the great global problems, constituting a serious threat to existing biodiversity, a decrease in the absorption capacity of CO2, and the loss of habitat for millions of animal and plant species…
Read MoreArtificial intelligence now allows us to recover lost languages
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Posted on April 1, 2021
An artificial intelligence system developed by the MIT Laboratory of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (CSAIL) aims to decipher missing languages and learn more about the people who spoke them. The algorithms they have designed can automatically decipher a lost language using only a few thousand words (far less data than is commonly used to train algorithms). The records that have survived to our days of the languages ??that have been lost throughout history are so minimal (often la…
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