May 20, 2013
Testing the effects of transcranial random noise stimulation the prefrontal cortex. The orange plates are near-infrared spectroscopy devices, using infrared light to measure blood-flow changes. (Credit: Albert Snowball et al./Current Biology)
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Insulating states and superlattice minibands in a graphene/hBN heterostructure. Schematic of the moiré pattern for graphene (gray) on hBN (red and blue), for zero misalignment angle and an exaggerated lattice mismatch of ~10%. The moiré unit cell is outlined in...
Arrays of tree-like nanowires consisting of Si trunks and TiO2 branches facilitate solar water-splitting in a fully integrated artificial photosynthesis system (credit: Chong Liu...
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“The next big thing” is the rise of sophisticated wearable technology, such as smart watches, and other accessories, according to Credit Suisse semiconductor analysts,...
Headquarters of National Security Agency in Fort Meade, Maryland (credit: NSA)
A book Untangling the Web: A Guide to Internet Research (PDF) produced by the The National Security...
May 17, 2013
Neocortical column in Henry Markram’s Blue Brain project (Credit: Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Henry Markram’s Human Brain Project (HBP), backed by 1 billion euros ($1.3 billion) funding Jan. 2013 from...
This flexible skin-like heart monitor is small enough to wear under a bandage (credit: L.A. Cicero/Stanford University)
Engineers combine layers of flexible...
Brain wiring (credit: eyewire.org)
When the hippocampus, the brain’s primary learning and memory center, is damaged, complex new neural circuits — often far from the damaged site — arise to compensate...
MIT engineers have created synthetic biology circuits that can perform analog computations such as taking logarithms and square roots in living cells (cartoon) (...
