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How Magnetic Resonance Is Helping Doctors Diagnose Autism

Tomas Kellner
June 19, 2016
Tens of millions of people live with autism and thousands of doctors and scientists study it. But the condition remains shrouded in mystery. “Autism proves to be a sprawling, foggy and inconsistent field,” writes the author David Mitchell, whose son is autistic. “Causes are unknown, though many careers are fueled by educated guesses.”
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
June 04, 2016
This week we learned about freshwater snails that could help AI engineers design brains for robots, scientists who are seeking to sequence synthetic human DNA and software that turns computer cameras into eye-tracking devices that can gather information about what content grabs our attention online. Take a look.
 

Will Snails Get Us Faster To AI?
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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
March 03, 2016
This week’s discoveries include a 3D-printed version of “frozen smoke” that could lead to invisibility cloaks, a mummy with a colon cancer gene mutation suggesting that colorectal cancer may not be solely a product of the modern lifestyle and fungus that may be the very first ancestor of all life on land.
 

A 3D-Printed Invisibility Cloak?
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Breakthrough

Heady Times: This Scientist Took the First Brain Selfie and Helped Revolutionize Medical Imaging

November 18, 2015
Early one October morning 30 years ago, GE scientist John Schenck was lying on a makeshift platform inside a GE lab in upstate New York. The itself lab was put together with special non-magnetic nails because surrounding his body was a large magnet, 30,000 times stronger than the Earth’s magnetic field. Standing at his side were a handful of colleagues and a nurse. They were there to peer inside Schenck’s head and take the first magnetic resonance scan (MRI) of the brain.
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It’s Personal: How a Premature Birth Spurred Jeffrey Ashe to Map the Brain

November 15, 2015
Jeffrey Ashe is building tiny brain implants, which could one day improve the lives of people suffering from Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. This groundbreaking work was inspired by one of the worst periods of his life.
In 1997, Ashe spent 10 weeks sitting in the pediatric intensive care unit with his son Andrew, who was born weighing just 2 pounds 3 ounces. As he sat and worried, buzzers and alarms went off every few minutes, further fraying his nerves.
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Mind-Controlled Robots Take Directions from Tiny Brain Implants

May 06, 2015
In 1997, Cathy Hutchinson suffered a brainstem stroke that left her paralyzed from the neck down. But in 2011, she was able to pick up a Thermos filled with coffee, bring it to her mouth and drink from it again.
Hutchinson, who was 58 at the time, didn’t regain control over her hands. She did it by moving a robotic arm with her thoughts.
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This is Your Brain on Rhythm: Where Freud, Nas, the Grateful Dead and Neuroscience Meet

December 22, 2014

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Micro Implants Are Learning the Brain’s Language to Heal the Body

December 02, 2014

The mind has a language of its own, and Jeff Ashe is trying to figure out what exactly it is saying.

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Head Health Challenge Winners Use Virtual Reality Goggles, 3D Printed "Microlattice" to Spot and Prevent Brain Injuries

November 18, 2014
Last spring, the National Football League, the sports performance brand Under Armour, and GE called on researchers, scientists and enthusiasts to find new tools for detecting concussions and protecting football players from traumatic brain injuries.
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Brittany Singh: How Can We Stay Smarter Than Machines?

Brittany Singh B Educated
October 07, 2014
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the sum of many great human minds to apprehend the environment and make sound decisions to achieve success. To exist, AI needs to encapsulate three things: hardware, software and the input/output mechanisms that work together to enable the machine to perform intelligently. In essence, AI equips machines for divergent thinking, to inspire a wider scope of thinking and creativity.
 
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