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People with paralysis navigate a room via a mind-controlled wheelchair
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
A mind-controlled wheelchair can help a paralyzed person gain new mobility by translating users' thoughts into mechanical commands. Researchers now demonstrate that tetraplegic users can operate mind-controlled wheelchairs in a natural, cluttered environment after training for an extended pe
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Welsh 'weird wonder' fossils add piece to puzzle of arthropod evolution
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
International team of researchers describe new fossil species discovered in fossil deposit near Llandrindod Wells in mid-Wales. The fossil, Mierridduryn bonniae, shares many features with Cambrian 'weird wonder' Opabinia, but is 40 million years younger. Robust phylogenetic analyses suggest
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Artificial neural networks learn better when they spend time not learning
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Researchers discuss how mimicking sleep patterns of the human brain in artificial neural networks may help mitigate the threat of catastrophic forgetting in the latter, boosting their utility across a spectrum of research interests.
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Scientists achieve milestone of directly observing dusty ring around black
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
An international team of scientists has achieved the milestone of directly observing the long-sought, innermost dusty ring around a supermassive black hole, at a right angle to its emerging jet. Such a structure was thought to exist in the nucleus of galaxies but had been difficult to observ
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Research suggests cultural heritage may influence capuchin monkeys' tool c
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Capuchin monkeys (Sapajus spp.) are among only a few primates that use tools in day-to-day activities. In the Cerrado and Caatinga, they use stones as hammers and anvils to crack open cashew nuts, seed pods of Hymenaea courbaril (West Indian locust; jatoba in Brazil) and other hard foods.
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Game theory suggests moral behaviours pay off in long run
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Selfless behaviour and cooperation cannot be taken for granted. Mohammad Salahshour of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (now at Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior), has used a game theory-based approach to show why it can be worthwhile for individuals to set self
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Researchers discover new drug to lower cholestrol
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
After statins, the next leading class of medications for managing cholesterol are PCSK9 inhibitors. These highly effective agents help the body pull excess cholesterol from the blood, but unlike statins, which are available as oral agents, PCSK9 inhibitors can only be administered as shots,
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Research suggests blinding eye disease linked with cardiovascular disease
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Patients with a specific form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a leading cause of blindness in the United States, are also highly likely to have either underlying heart damage from heart failure and heart attacks, or advanced heart valve disease, or carotid artery disease associate
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Study finds common mechanism tumours use to suppress immune responses
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
A Ludwig Cancer Research study has revealed a single protein expressed at high levels by cancer cells across a broad range of malignancies that erects a multifaceted barrier to anti-cancer immune responses in mouse models of cancer and so shields tumours from immune detection and destruction
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Low-cost method developed to diagnose valve dysfunction in heart
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
In the Journal of Applied Physics, by AIP Publishing, researchers from the University of Kerala and the University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia developed a method to identify valve dysfunction using a complex network analysis that is accurate, simple to use, and low-cost.
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Counterpoint Research, TECNO, MediaTek's Experts and Editor At Large of Fo
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London [UK], November 18 (ANI/PRNewswire): Organized by Counterpoint Research, Editor-At-Large of Forbes Magazine and experts from TECNO, MediaTek will join Counterpoint Research senior analyst to speak at webinar on November 22 at 12pm London (1pm Abuja, 8pm Manila, 7am Bogota, 3pm Nairobi,
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CanAm announces 48th EB-5 Loan Repayment
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
New York [US], November 18 (ANI/NewsVoir): CanAm Enterprises ("CanAm"), a financial services company helping clients achieve their immigration and investment goals for more than 35 years, is pleased to announce that it has fully repaid the USD 26.5 million investors funded in CanAm's Axalta
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