Given a large volume of spoken or written speech, can you tease out a signal?
Researchers at the Queensland University of Technology have added another hybrid supercapacitor design to the mix, promising the near-instant charge and discharge of a supercap with vastly improved energy storage on par with NiMH batteries.
A first patient has been dosed in IMAC Holdings’ Phase 1 clinical trial evaluating its investigational umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) as a potential treatment for bradykinesia, a common motor symptom of Parkinson’s disease.
The infusion treatment was given on Dec. 292020, by the trial’s lead investigator Ricardo Knight, MD, at IMAC’s facility in Brentwood, Tennessee, the company announced.
These new, adaptive stem cells can lie dormant until needed, a new animal study using human cells shows.
A new type of stem cell – that is, a cell with regenerative abilities – could be closer on the horizon, a new study led by UNSW Sydney shows.
The stem cells (called induced multipotent stem cells, or iMS) can be made from easily accessible human cells – in this case, fat – and reprogrammed to act as stem cells.
One common symptom of multiple sclerosis (MS) is vision impairment, and it can progress to blindness in some cases. Now, researchers at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) report a drug that was able to reverse that vision loss in mice.
Hannah Coleman and Matt Brookes explain how quantum-enabled MEG scanners can yield new insights into the functioning of our brains.
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Nikolai Kardashev, creator of the civilization ranking scale, outstanding space explorer, specialist in experimental and theoretical astrophysics and radio astronomy, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Director of the Astro Space Center of the Lebedev Physical Institute, died in August 3, 2019. The Russian scientist was 87 years old.
The scientist’s most famous work is the Kardashev Scale — the cosmic civilization ranking system. As part of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), he proposed a model of cosmic civilisations and calculated the scale of ranking civilisations
The Kardashev Scale
In 1963, he studied the quasar CTA-102. It was the first contribution of Soviet scientists to SETI, since the radio source CTA-102 was first assumed to be evidence of an extraterrestrial civilization.
In his paper ‘Transmission of Information by Extraterrestrial Civilisations’, published in 1964, Kardashev explored the idea that other galactic civilisations may have existed for billions of years before ours, so they would be far more advanced. He proposed a theoretical scale of technological development of civilisations based on the amount of energy that civilization is able to utilize. According to the theory, there are 3 main types of advanced civilisations:
Is a postdoctoral scholar at Tufts University, where she conducts research in their Human Robot Interaction Lab (https://hrilab.tufts.edu/).
With a background in psychology and the social sciences, Dr. Chita-Tegmark is interested in topics at the intersection of technology and psychology, such as using artificial social agents in healthcare and the impact of such emerging technologies on human social interactions and well-being.
Dr. Chita-Tegmark has her Ph.D from Boston University in Psychology and Developmental Sciences, and she is an alumna of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she spent time studying role of social information in children’s lives, how social information influences the way children cooperate and engage in strategic decision-making, as well as on projects related to the development of social attention and language skills in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
Dr. Chita-Tegmark is also a Co-Founder of the Future of Life Institute (https://futureoflife.org/), a non-profit research institute and outreach organization that works to mitigate existential risks facing humanity, including those from advanced artificial intelligence (AI), to bio-engineering, to autonomous weapons, and to help promote positive uses of technology.
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Time-lapse photography from ISS converted to real-time video.
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