There has been a breakthrough when it comes to whale language that gives us a huge window into their communication.
There is no computer even remotely as powerful and complex as the human brain. The lumps of tissue ensconced in our skulls can process information at quantities and speeds that computing technology can barely touch.
Key to the brain’s success is the neuron’s efficiency in serving as both a processor and memory device, in contrast to the physically separated units in most modern computing devices.
There have been many attempts to make computing more brain-like, but a new effort takes it all a step further – by integrating real, actual, human brain tissue with electronics.
Quantum information scientists are always on the hunt for winning combinations of materials, materials that can be manipulated at the molecular level to reliably store and transmit information. Following a recent proof-of-principle demonstration, researchers are adding a new combination of compounds to the quantum materials roster.
In a study reported in ACS Photonics, researchers combined two nanosized structures—one made of diamond and one of lithium niobate—onto a single chip. They then sent light from the diamond to the lithium niobate and measured the fraction of light that successfully made it across.
The greater that fraction, the more efficient the coupling of the materials, and the more promising the pairing as a component in quantum devices.
Very interesting find. Life on Saturn’s moon would be great.
Molecules in Enceladus’s icy plumes suggest that alien life could exist in our solar system.
By Ling Xin
This Perspective reviews large-scale genomics and longitudinal phenomics efforts and the insights they can provide into wellness. The authors describe their vision for the transformation of the current health care from disease-oriented to data-driven, wellness-oriented and personalized population health.
Robots learn their topology and kinematics from proprioception using a graph representation based on mutual information.
As large-scale neuroscience projects start to yield results, sharing data standards will become increasingly important.
Generating a complete multimodal cell census and atlas of the mouse brain through collaborative data collection, tool development and analysis.
A nonintrusive human-machine interface for controlling extra arms was tested using a neurorobotic platform.