A state-of-the-art brain-machine interface created by neuroscientists can generate natural-sounding synthetic speech by using brain activity to control a virtual vocal tract — an anatomically detailed computer simulation including the …read more Source:: Science
Month: April 2019
How secure are your containerized apps?
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•Containers are only as secure as their contents. …read more Source:: Linux
The buzz about bumble bees isn’t good
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•While many scientists are focused on the decline of honey bees, relatively few study bumble bees. The good news is that a new study provides an estimate on bumble bee …read more Source:: Science
Quantum gas turns supersolid
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•Researchers report on the observation of supersolid behavior in dipolar quantum gases of erbium and dysprosium. In the dysprosium gas these properties are unprecedentedly long-lived. This sets the stage for …read more Source:: Science
Devil rays may have unknown birthing zone
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•The discovery of dozens of pregnant giant devil rays tangled in fishing nets in a village along Mexico’s Gulf of California could mean the endangered species has a previously unknown …read more Source:: Science
Arctic warming will accelerate climate change and impact global economy
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•Carbon released into the atmosphere by the increasing loss of Arctic permafrost, combined with higher solar absorption by the Earth’s surface due to the melting of sea ice and land …read more Source:: Science
Put the internet back under your control with the FreedomBox
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•For less than a $100, you can have an open-source powered, easy-to-use server, which enables you — and not Apple, Facebook, Google, or Microsoft — to control your view of …read more Source:: Linux
Defying the laws of physics? Engineers demonstrate bubbles of sand
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•A recent discovery explains a new family of gravitational instabilities in granular particles of different densities that are driven by a gas-channeling mechanism not seen in fluids. The team observed …read more Source:: Science
Brains of blind people adapt to sharpen sense of hearing, study shows
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•Research uses functional MRI to identify two differences in the brains of blind individuals — differences that might be responsible for their abilities to make better use of auditory information. …read more Source:: Science
Snake-inspired robot slithers even better than predecessor
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•Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a new and improved snake-inspired soft robot that is faster and more precise than …read more Source:: Science