Technicians at Australia’s International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems are putting the finishing touches on DeepSouth, the first supercomputer engineered to mimic an entire, functioning human brain. They expect to be ready to turn it on in April.
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DEATH COMES FOR THE BRAIN IN WAVES
After recording animals’ brain activity as they died, researchers at the Paris Brain Institute were able, for the first time, to describe in detail the sequence of events that ends the brain’s life.
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A BLOOD TEST COULD REVEAL RISK OF SUICIDE
Depression afflicts 300 million people worldwide and almost 20 million in the U.S., according to the World Health Organization. The worst cases resist counseling and drug therapy, often leading to suicide.
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RECYCLING CARBON FROM THE AIR TO POWER FUEL CELLS
The just-ended COP28 climate summit called on nations to speed their efforts to pull excess carbon out of the air and rebalance the atmosphere. Engineers are using everything from catalytic processes to giant sucking machines to do it.
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GENE DISCOVERY MAY HALT PARKINSON’S DISEASE BEFORE SYMPTOMS APPEAR
Parkinson’s Disease, which affects as many as nine million people globally, including a million Americans, has been thought to originate when brain cells producing the biochemical dopamine die.
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PHARMA FOOD—BIOTECH ON YOUR PLATE
Lab-grown meat may one day represent 80 percent or more of the "meat" consumed worldwide,[1] a dramatic departure from the way humans have eaten for centuries.
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U.S. AUTHORIZES FIRST NEW NUCLEAR PLANT DESIGN IN 55 YEARS
For the first time since 1968, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has granted a permit to build a new kind of nuclear reactor, a sign that regulators are ready to be more imaginative in their deliberations as the need to move away from fossil fuels becomes more urgent.
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WHY OFFICIAL VITAMIN D INTAKE RECOMMENDATIONS ARE GROSSLY INADEQUATE
Two studies published in November 2023 demonstrated that the current governmental dosing recommendations for vitamin D may not help you achieve optimal levels;[1] a third found a personalized approach to supplementation yielded better results in athletes than a one-size-fits-all approach.[2]
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TOP TREND 2023, GOING GREEN, LIKE IT OR NOT: U.S. AIR FORCE IS BUSY TESTING ALTERNATIVES TO FOSSIL FUELS
The U.S. military recognizes that dependence on fossil fuels can be a vulnerability, so it’s at work testing aircraft powered by hydrogen and even an electrofuel made by combining waste carbon with hydrogen extracted from water.
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PRINTED SKIN HEALS AS WELL AS THE REAL THING
In a breakthrough, researchers at Wake Forest University’s Institute for Regenerative Medicine have combined the six main types of skin cells with a hydrogel to bioprint skin that grafts over wounds and integrates with surrounding tissue as well as the real thing.