Summary: Combining new wearable technology and artificial intelligence, researchers are better able to track motion and monitor the progression of movement disorders.
Source: Imperial College London.
A multi-disciplinary team of researchers has developed a way to monitor the progression of movement disorders using motion capture technology and AI.
Summary: Researchers explore why some songs constantly get stuck in our heads and why these “hooks” are the guiding principle for modern popular music.
Source: University of Wollongong.
“Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy… But here’s my number, so call me, maybe.”
Contents: 00:00 — Lunar Glass & Lunar Vehicle (Music: Lunar City) 05:01-HEXATRACK-Space Express Concept (Music: Constellation) 10:30 — Mars Glass, Dome City, and Martian Terra Forming (Music: Martian) 13:54 — Beyond — Proxima Centauri, Tau Cet e, TRAPPIST-I system, and beyond (Music: Neptune) HEXATRACK-Space Express Concept, designed and created by Yosuke A. Yamashiki, Kyoto University. Lunar Glass & Mars Glass, designed and created by Takuya Ono, Kajima Co. Ltd. Visual Effect and detailed design are generated by Juniya Okamura. Concept Advisor Naoko Yamazaki, AstronautSIC Human Spaceology Center, GSAIS, Kyoto UniversityVR of Lunar&Mars Glass — created by Natsumi Iwato and Mamiko Hikita, Kyoto University. VR contents of Lunar&Mars Glass by Shinji Asano, Natsumi Iwato, Mamiko Hikita and Junya Okamura. Daidaros concept by Takuya Ono. Terraformed Mars were designed by Fuka Takagi & Yosuke A. Yamashiki. Exoplanet image were created by Ryusuke Kuroki, Fuka Takagi, Hiroaki Sato, Ayu Shiragashi and Y. A. Yamashiki. All Music (” Lunar City” “Constellation”“Martian”“Neptune”) are composed and played by Yosuke Alexandre Yamashiki.
Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) represent a large family of layered semiconductor materials of the type MX2, with M a transition metal atom (Mo, W, etc.) and X a chalcogen atom (S, Se, or Te). One layer of M atoms is sandwiched between two layers of X atoms.
Scientists from UNSW Sydney have demonstrated a novel technique for creating tiny 3D materials that could eventually make fuel cells like hydrogen batteries cheaper and more sustainable.
In the study published in Science Advances (“Synthesis of hierarchical metal nanostructures with high electrocatalytic surface areas”), researchers from the School of Chemistry at UNSW Science show it’s possible to sequentially ‘grow’ interconnected hierarchical structures in 3D at the nanoscale which have unique chemical and physical properties to support energy conversion reactions.
In chemistry, hierarchical structures are configurations of units like molecules within an organisation of other units that themselves may be ordered. Similar phenomena can be seen in the natural world, like in flower petals and tree branches. But where these structures have extraordinary potential is at a level beyond the visibility of the human eye – at the nanoscale.
True to Moore’s Law, the number of transistors on a microchip has doubled every year since the 1960s. But this trajectory is predicted to soon plateau because silicon — the backbone of modern transistors — loses its electrical properties once devices made from this material dip below a certain size.
Enter 2D materials — delicate, two-dimensional sheets of perfect crystals that are as thin as a single atom. At the scale of nanometers, 2D materials can conduct electrons far more efficiently than silicon. The search for next-generation transistor materials therefore has focused on 2D materials as potential successors to silicon.
But before the electronics industry can transition to 2D materials, scientists have to first find a way to engineer the materials on industry-standard silicon wafers while preserving their perfect crystalline form. And MIT engineers may now have a solution.
Dr Miriam Stoppard writes how the ancient infection leprosy — once such a disfiguring disease that sufferers were exiled — could now help people’s health Leprosy is an ancient infection, common in biblical times, causing such disfiguring disease that sufferers were exiled to isolated colonies miles from anywhere.
