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Jul 17, 2017
This bar is floating off Fiji (and we need to go right now!)
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
Jul 17, 2017
This motorised surfboard can ‘fly’ over the water at 25 mph
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
The theory that we could be the result of a simulation has its proponents in science and philosophy. Are we prepared to replace God fo a teen future hacker?
Jul 17, 2017
This solar paint will turn your house into a power station
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: energy, habitats
Jul 17, 2017
This UV patch will fix the your bad sunscreen habits
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
Jul 17, 2017
Watch this cube completely transform using augmented reality
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: augmented reality
Jul 17, 2017
This Google robot is cool but also terrifying
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: robotics/AI
Jul 17, 2017
Lab-grown capillaries are here, 3D-printed organs are just around the corner
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: 3D printing, biotech/medical
Scientists have demonstrated a method for growing capillaries, the tiny vessels responsible for transporting blood around the body.
Jul 17, 2017
Synapses in the brain mirror the structure of the visual world
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: neuroscience
The research team of Prof. Sonja Hofer at the Biozentrum, University of Basel, has discovered why our brain might be so good at perceiving edges and contours. Neurons that respond to different parts of elongated edges are connected and thus exchange information. This can make it easier for the brain to identify contours of objects. The results of the study are now published in the journal Nature.
Individual visual stimuli are not processed independently by our brain. Rather neurons exchange incoming information to form a coherent perceptual image from the myriad of visual details impinging on our eyes. How our visual perception arises from these interactions is still unclear. This is partly due to the fact that we still know relatively little about the rules that determine which neurons in the brain are connected to each other, and what information they exchange. The research team of Prof. Sonja Hofer at the Biozentrum, University Basel studies neuronal networks in the brain. She has now investigated in the mouse model what information individual neurons in the visual cortex receive from other neurons about the wider visual field.