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Jul 15, 2016

Energy Conversion Efficiency Exceeding 18% Achieved Using Standard Size Perovskite Solar Cells

Posted by in categories: solar power, sustainability

A research group led by Liyuan Han, a leader of the Photovoltaic Materials Group, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), achieved energy conversion efficiency exceeding 18% using standard size (1 cm2) perovskite solar cells for the first time in the world.

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Jul 15, 2016

Researchers Gain Understanding of Why the Brain Makes Mistakes

Posted by in category: neuroscience

Human brain is made up of a billion nerve cells called neurons and various other types of cells and is the most complex machine ever known. Even after years of research and studies we still do not have a complete understanding of how it works — how it controls every single thing we ever do. In order to unravel one such mysteries of the brain, researchers at the Carnegie Mellon University set out to find out why brain makes mistakes. The study was conducted as part of Carnegie Mellon’s BrainHub, a university initiative that focuses on how the structure and activity of the brain give rise to complex behaviors.

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Jul 15, 2016

How to add a smartphone-controlled brain to your 3D printer for about fifty bucks

Posted by in categories: 3D printing, mobile phones, neuroscience

Pretty cool.


Ready for some buzzword salad? David Gewirtz combines OctoPrint with OctoPi on the Raspberry Pi to drive his LulzBot Mini 3D printer. It’s actually harder to say than to do. Read on to learn how.

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Jul 15, 2016

Do YOU use foil on your BBQ? New link with Alzheimer’s

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

Aluminium builds up in the brain, eventually causing contamination which could cause the degenerative bran disease, researchers from Keele University previously found.

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Jul 15, 2016

Virtual Reality Food

Posted by in categories: food, virtual reality

Consume your favorite foods…without any of the calories. Seriously.

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Jul 15, 2016

Engineered Bacteria Can Manufacture Nano-Electronics

Posted by in categories: electronics, nanotechnology

Nanowires could be used in small powerful devices.

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Jul 15, 2016

A biocompatible, transparent therapeutic window to the brain

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

An illustration showing how the “window to the brain” transparent skull implant created by UC Riverside researchers would work (credit: UC Riverside)

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have developed a transparent “window to the brain” — a skull implant that is biocompatible, infection-resistant, and does not need to be repetitively replaced.

Part of the ongoing “Window to the Brain” project, a multi-institution, cross-disciplinary effort, the idea is to use transparent skull implants to provide laser diagnosis and treatment of a wide variety of brain pathologies, including brain cancers, traumatic brain injury, stroke, and neurodegenerative diseases, without requiring repeated craniotomies (a surgical operation in which a bone flap is temporarily removed from the skull to access the brain). Such operations are vulnerable to bacterial infections.

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Jul 15, 2016

Drone disguised as a BIRD discovered in Somalia — is it a surveillance tactic?

Posted by in categories: drones, surveillance

The drone crashed in Mogadishu’s Waabari district this week where it was found and pictured on social media.

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Jul 15, 2016

A lab founded by a tech billionaire just unveiled a major leap forward in cracking your brain’s code

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, genetics, neuroscience

In order to build a better map of the brain, begin by slicing glass windows into the glowing skulls of genetically-engineered mice.

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Jul 14, 2016

No Time For Pokémon Go? This Girl Will Catch ‘Em All For You At $20/Hr

Posted by in category: futurism

She’ll kick poké butt, and yours too if you’re not careful.

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