Sex Robots – CIA’s next big brainwashing tool
Sounds sexy, but could be a nightmare. (more…)
Technology
IBM Watson Health to Integrate MedyMatch Technology into Cognitive Imaging Offerings to Help Doctors Identify Head Trauma and Stroke
MedyMatch Application to Help Doctors Identify Head Trauma and Stroke
Tel Aviv, Israel – 16 Mar 2017: MedyMatch Technology today announced a collaboration with IBM (NYSE: IBM) Watson Health to bring MedyMatch’s A.I.-based clinical decision support application to imaging experts working in hospital emergency rooms and other acute care settings to help doctors identify instances of intracranial bleeding as a result of head trauma and stroke. Initially, IBM Watson Health’s Imaging group will distribute the MedyMatch brain bleed detection application globally through its vendor neutral sales channels. Moving forward, IBM Watson Health and MedyMatch will develop interoperability between MedyMatch’s application and IBM Watson Health Imaging’s offerings. (more…)
Fossilized evidence of a tumor in a 255-million-year-old mammal forerunner
When paleontologists at the University of Washington cut into the fossilized jaw of a distant mammal relative, they got more than they bargained for — more teeth, to be specific. (more…)
In der Tracht des Feindes
Biologen ergänzen mehr als 150 Jahre alte Lehrbuchmeinung mit neuer Erklärung zur Wespenmimikry
Die Maskerade ist nahezu perfekt: Tagaktive Nachtfalter aus der Gruppe der Bärenspinner sind gelb-schwarz gemustert, weisen Wespen-Taillen auf, ihre Fühler erscheinen wie Wespenfühler, und ihre Flügel sind transparent und wie bei Wespen gefaltet. Für diese Art der Nachahmung, gemeinhin als Mimikry bezeichnet, gibt es seit mehr als 150 Jahren eine plausible Erklärung. (more…)
The truth about Galileo and his conflict with the Catholic Church
Today virtually every child grows up learning that the earth orbits the sun.
But four centuries ago, the idea of a heliocentric solar system was so controversial that the Catholic Church classified it as a heresy, and warned the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei to abandon it. (more…)
Toward safer, long-life nuclear reactors: Metal design could raise radiation resistance by 100 times
ANN ARBOR — In findings that could change the way industries like nuclear energy and aerospace look for materials that can stand up to radiation exposure, University of Michigan researchers have discovered that metal alloys with three or more elements in equal concentrations can be remarkably resistant to radiation-induced swelling. (more…)
Seen auf höchstem Niveau
Hochgebirgsseen sind nicht nur in den Alpen, sondern weltweit wichtige und bisher noch wenig erforschte Ökosysteme. Ruben Sommaruga, Professor am Institut für Ökologie, hat Seen in den Alpen, in Chile und in Äthiopien untersucht und miteinander verglichen. (more…)
Chemistry on the Edge: Study Pinpoints Most Active Areas of Reactions on Nanoscale Particles
Experiments at Berkeley Lab confirm that structural defects at the periphery are key in catalyst function
Defects and jagged surfaces at the edges of nanosized platinum and gold particles are key hot spots for chemical reactivity, a team of researchers working at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel confirmed with a unique infrared probe. (more…)