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A drug created to treat type 2 diabetes has shown an ability to reverse Alzheimer’s-related memory loss in mice, according to researchers at Lancaster University in England. The drug, not named in the university’s report, is a triple threat; it combines three hormones that act as growth factors. While the hormones can help the pancreas...

An artificial neural network is a computer process that can learn from examples, as people do, instead of having to be programmed before it can do something. But the network often requires thousands of examples before it can figure something out on its own. At the University of Michigan, engineers have drastically reduced the number...

An artificial-intelligence software program has passed China’s exam for licensing physicians. The program needed 360 points to pass the test; it scored 456 and did it in a fraction of the allotted time. This wasn’t just a multiple-choice test. More than half the questions ask the test-taker to analyze actual patients’ cases, formulate diagnoses and...

The California start-up Robomart will offer autonomous vehicles about the size of a golf cart that can be stocked with fruits and vegetables and summoned by or sent to a house, where humans will choose their fare. Software will tally purchases and send a receipt. The idea arose from survey data showing shoppers don’t mind...

While the auto industry and its high-tech partners have been driving high-profile publicity touting driverless vehicles as a reality just a few years away, Trends Research Institute tracking shows that hype is overblown. Instead, the reality of cashless – cash-register less – stores is a real, imminent high-tech advancement that will radically change the retail...

After catastrophic floods in 2012, China made recovering from floods and minimizing their damage a national priority. To achieve that goal, China is creating “sponge cities” – urban areas able to absorb and hold large amounts of excess water and gradually let it back into nature. Only about a quarter of the rain falling on...

In America, the world’s leading economy, the middle class keeps shrinking. In China, the world’s second-largest economy, the middle class is booming. Since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, its middle class grew from 5 percent of the population to nearly 35 percent today. And while America’s middle class is difficult to define...

What’s your favorite app? Which one customizes your selection and delivery of news and information, tailored to your pre-existing beliefs and personal preferences?   What’s your favorite news channel? Where can you tune to hear what you want to hear and reaffirm your beliefs?   Which newspapers and magazines do you read? Which promote points...

Who would have believed it! Go back just a few years ago. Treat a patient with medical marijuana? The mainstream media, Big Pharma, the medical establishment and government health agencies would chastise anyone from the alternative-healing community as a quack for promoting marijuana’s healing qualities. While acceptance for medical and recreational uses has gone mainstream...

Are apps a thing of the past? There are millions of apps available to smartphone users worldwide. In fact, there are so many apps, and they’re created so quickly, that an accurate in-the-moment count – even in our digitalized, metric-obsessed world – is virtually impossible. During the last five years – in particular, the era...