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State-of-the-art prosthetic limbs can help people with amputations achieve a natural walking gait, but they don’t give the user full neural control over the limb. Instead, they rely on robotic sensors and controllers that move the limb using predefined gait algorithms.

Using a new type of surgical intervention and neuroprosthetic interface, MIT researchers, in collaboration with colleagues from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, have shown that a natural walking gait is achievable using a prosthetic leg fully driven by the body’s own nervous system. The surgical amputation procedure reconnects muscles in the residual limb, which allows patients to receive “proprioceptive” feedback about where their prosthetic limb is in space.

In a study of seven patients who had this surgery, the MIT team found that they were able to walk faster, avoid obstacles, and climb stairs much more naturally than people with a traditional amputation.

First indications of the neutrino fog—an important background for dark matter searches—from the PandaX & XENON collaborations Letters: https://go.aps.org/3AwVxQG & https://go.aps.org/3YSjX0l

Didn’t Monkeys do a jailbreak in South Carolina?

Seeing what’s going on inside a body is never easy.

In a stunning experiment, researchers were able to see through a living mouse’s skin to its internal organs, simply by applying common light-absorbing molecules.

Do the scientists want us to get Terminator killer robots? Because this is how you get Terminator killer robots.

Baidu Inc. is set to unveil a pair of glasses with a built-in AI assistant, putting up a Chinese rival to the Meta Ray-Bans that have proven a rare success in AI-powered hardware.

Nanomagnets keep a history of their states and can be trained in a few hours.

Jungfleisch uses nanomagnets to store and transmit information and achieves it in a more energy-efficient manner as compared to electrons.

Hypothetical particles called axions could form dense clouds around neutron stars – and if they do, they will give off signals that radio telescopes can detect, say researchers in the Netherlands, the UK and the US. Since axions are a possible candidate for the mysterious substance known as dark matter, this finding could bring us closer to understanding it.

Around 85% of the universe’s mass consists of matter that appears “dark” to us. We can observe its gravitational effect on structures such as galaxies, but we cannot observe it directly. This is because dark matter hardly interacts with anything as far as we know, making it very difficult to detect. So far, searches for dark matter on Earth and in space have found no evidence for any of the various dark matter candidates.

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