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Video: Paralyzed Woman Moves Robot With Her Mind
Cathy Hutchinson has been paralyzed from neck down for 15 years. But using the most advanced brain-machine interface ever developed, she is able to raise a bottle, take a sip and place it back on a table simply by imagining herself doing so. The interface includes a sensor implanted in Cathy’s brain, which ‘reads’ her [...]
Movie Review: Demystifying ‘On the Road’
It has taken 50 years to adapt the most paradigmatic novel of the Beat Generation, which tells the ‘life on the road’ of Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty (pseudonyms of Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady, respectively) in the America of the late 40s. Producer Francis Ford Coppola bought the rights of the book in 1979, [...]
Male Pill On Way After Gene Breakthrough
Soon women may be liberated from the burden of family planning: researchers have identified a new gene essential for the production of healthy sperm that could pave the way for a new type of non-hormonal male contraceptive. Edinburgh University scientists found out that a gene named Katnal1 was vital for the final stages of making [...]
