{"id":95677,"date":"2019-09-02T06:03:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T13:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/the-physics-of-epilepsy-drones-to-monitor-chernobyl-and-the-model-independent-approach-to-particle-physics"},"modified":"2019-09-02T06:03:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T13:03:00","slug":"the-physics-of-epilepsy-drones-to-monitor-chernobyl-and-the-model-independent-approach-to-particle-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/the-physics-of-epilepsy-drones-to-monitor-chernobyl-and-the-model-independent-approach-to-particle-physics","title":{"rendered":"The physics of epilepsy, drones to monitor Chernobyl, and the \u2018model-independent\u2019 approach to particle physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-physics-of-epilepsy-drones-to-monitor-chernobyl-and-the-model-independent-approach-to-particle-physics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Could physics help people with epilepsy? That\u2019s the question tackled by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BiophysicsFL\">Louis Nemzer<\/a>, a physicist at Nova Southeastern University, in the September 2019 issue of <a href=\"https:\/\/eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcomms.iop.org%2Fc%2F1ar7pFfEmgTnZ64l4CdPdqXZW&data=02%7C01%7Cmatin.durrani%40ioppublishing.org%7C3c7b4bb537624d187ef308d700ba8207%7Cf9ee42e6bad04e639115f704f9ccceed%7C0%7C0%7C636978673360205021&sdata=nB1BfZQGa6BsAywNzuwNCUoITYV6a40HehqX99okWZ0%3D&reserved=0\"><em>Physics World<\/em> magazine<\/a>, which is out now in print and <a href=\"https:\/\/prod-physicsworld-iop.content.pugpig.com\/?article=page-33830&edition=editions_sep_2019\">digital formats<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He thinks that machine learning and real-time monitoring of the brain could give people with epilepsy live information about how much at risk they are of an imminent seizure \u2013 and is even developing a smartphone app to help them in daily life.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the issue, <a href=\"https:\/\/research-information.bristol.ac.uk\/en\/persons\/peter-george-martin(96243fdc-f9db-4eb6-bebf-e1cbd9fd902e).html\">Peter Martin<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/research-information.bristol.ac.uk\/en\/persons\/thomas-bligh-scott(fa138c17-2b99-488f-a96e-bd04217b4c2b).html\">Tom Scott<\/a> from the University of Bristol describe how they\u2019ve used drones to map radiation levels at the Chernobyl plant, which you can also read on this website from 2 September, while Kate Brown from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology examines the health impact of Chernobyl fall-out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could physics help people with epilepsy? That\u2019s the question tackled by Louis Nemzer, a physicist at Nova Southeastern University, in the September 2019 issue of Physics World magazine, which is out now in print and digital formats. He thinks that machine learning and real-time monitoring of the brain could give people with epilepsy live information [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1495,1512,48,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-health","category-mobile-phones","category-particle-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}