New self-healing electronic nerves allow robots to “learn” what is dangerous.
Chinese researchers have built a self-healing gelatin sensor that lets robots rate pain and protect themselves after damage.
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Physicists create resilient 3D solitons in the lab
For the first time, physicists in Italy have created a ‘lump soliton’: an extremely stable packet of light waves which can travel through 3D space, and even interact with other solitons without losing its shape.
Led by Ludovica Dieli at Sapienza University of Rome, the team achieved their result using a specially engineered crystal, whose responses to incoming light beams could be tightly controlled using an external voltage. Their study appears in Physical Review Letters.
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Multiple Sclerosis May Have Two Distinct Subtypes, Scientists Discover
This will help clinicians understand where a person sits on the disease pathway and who may need closer monitoring or earlier, targeted treatment.
There may be two distinct subtypes of multiple sclerosis, according to a new study led by scientists at University College London (UCL). The finding, if validated, could help doctors provide more specialized care for patients.
The study used machine learning to analyze data drawn from blood tests and brain scans of 634 patients participating in two different clinical trials. Machine learning models are trained to pick up subtle patterns that humans might miss.
The blood tests were for detecting a protein called serum neurofilament light chain (sNfL), a known biomarker of diseases of the nervous system, including multiple sclerosis (MS).