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Your brain activity can be used to measure how well you understand a concept
Neuroscience News - 22 Jun 2019 20:12
A new deep learning algorithm is able to detect how well a STEM student understands a concept based on their brain activity.
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Singularity Hub - 22 Jun 2019 18:00
ROBOTICS This Freaky Robotic Fish Is Powered by ‘Blood’ George Dvorsky | Gizmodo “In an effort to create more autonomous, life-like robots, scientists have developed a soft robotic lionfish with a multi-functional ...
More than 5 million cancer survivors experience chronic pain, twice the rate of the general population
Science Daily - 22 Jun 2019 19:50
More than 5 million cancer survivors in the United States experience chronic pain, almost twice the rate in the general population, according to a new study.
Researchers use facial quirks to unmask 'deepfakes'
Neuroscience News - 22 Jun 2019 23:42
Facial tics might be the key to distinguishing real videos of people from deepfakes, researchers say.
3D technology might improve body appreciation
Neuroscience News - 22 Jun 2019 23:11
Images from 3D scanners can be used to help improve focus on body appreciation, which may help to improve mental health outcomes for young people.
Why So Many Bacteria Live on the Surface of Your Eye
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Live Science - 22 Jun 2019 15:42The US is making digital camouflage so that AIs can't spot spy planes
New Scientist - 22 Jun 2019 13:00
The US Navy wants to modify military vehicles to fool AIs. For example, so that an AI misclassifies a tank as just an ordinary car
Spotting objects amid clutter
Neuroscience News - 22 Jun 2019 04:13
Researchers have developed a new algorithm that enables robots to identify objects hidden in 3D data. The new system may help with improving robotic vehicles and autonomous robots.
A new drug target for chemically induced Parkinson's disease
Neuroscience News - 22 Jun 2019 02:12
Mitochondrial CYP2D6 may be a powerful target for the treatment of Parkinson's disease induced by MPTP.