A spinal cord injury (SCI) usually causes perpetual damage within our body. This can result in long-term disability. And in most of the cases, spinal cord compression can lead to paralysis.
Specialized Grafts Behaved Like Neurons: Spinal Cord Injury
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Hyperdimensional Computing System: Inspired from Cerebral Attributes of Neuronal Circuits
Hyperdimensional computing (HDC) is the budding computational paradigm based on cognitive model which distillates to higher dimensionality and randomness.
Book Review: Rapt Attention and the Focused Life by Winifred Gallagher
Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life by Winifred Gallagher opens up with William James’s famous quote, “My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind”. This is one of the most powerful lines that I have come across. It’s so simple yet so profound to execute.
Can you be allergic to water: Aquagenic Urticaria
Earth is a watery planet, in fact, water covers nearly 71 percent of our planet. It exists in our atmospheric air as water vapor and in ground flora as moisture within the soil. Water is one of the main components that we look for in extra-terrestrial planetary space.
Book Review: The Yoga of Time Travel by Fred Alan Wolf
This weekend I finished reading one of the most remarkable books, The Yoga of Time Travel: How the Mind Can Defeat Time by Fred Alan Wolf. Time travel, a concept has always intrigued me including movies based on the same. This book surpasses every motion picture that I have seen so far. Very deftly, Wolf has woven threads of Vedic philosophy into quantum physics and alternative philosophies like Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras.
Whisker System Reveals How Neurons Communicate Touch: Sensing Mechanism
Sense of touch helps us in distinguishing things in regions where sense of sight or our eyes can’t go, let’s say in purse or pocket. If we are to fetch keys from loose change in our pockets, without giving it a second thought, we take out the required thing, this happens due to sensorimotor integration.
Bionic Eye allows blind man to see again: The Eyeborg
Experts at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital have successfully restored the vision of 80 years old Ray Flynn, through implanting ‘bionic eye’. For the last eight years, Mr Flynn suffered from dry age-related muscular degeneration (AMD). AMD is a condition in which photoreceptor cells in the central region of the retina are damaged leading to loss of central vision. The condition is very common, affecting nearly 5,00,000 people in the UK.
Microfluidic device that mimics the actual Biological System: Alternative to Lung Ventilators
Technology that would help in fabricating vital characteristics of lung structures would lead to safer and promising alternative to specific types of respiratory and cardiac machines used for treating patients whose lungs have failed to respond due to disease or injury.
The Lord of the Rings as an Indian Mythology: Legends leading to Traditions
Had Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings been a brainchild of some Indian writer during the earliest times, then the book would have been tagged as an Ancient Holy Text.
Fly-catching Robot for accelerating Biomedical Research: Monitoring fly’s physical attributes at Precise Scale
Mark Schnitzer and his team at Stanford have created a fly-catching robot for speeding up of biomedical research. The bot inspects awake flies and performs behavioral experiments, which previously were not so easily carried out as the flies were under the effect of anesthesia.
Individual Cell investigated at Bigger Scale: Single-Cell Genomics
There is still no evidence that suggests the exact number of cells present in human body. Although we can interpret them to be somewhere around hundreds of thousands but the figure is much more than that.
The Quantum Moment by Robert P. Crease and Alfred Scharff Goldhaber
The Quantum Moment – How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love Uncertainty by Robert P. Crease and Alfred Scharff Goldhaber is one of the most fascinatingly informative books I have read so far. I have recently developed interest in the world of quantum and I find this book fully satiated my curiosity. It is beautifully written for a beginner like me.
Biomimicry: Roboeel to investigate Oceans of the Solar System
NASA funded robotic eel project is one of the most enticing venture so far. With an aim of delving deep into the ocean-bed of Europa, (Jupiter’s moon), the soft robotic eel is fabricated for scavenging electrical energy from magnetic fields and employing it for creating oxygen and hydrogen so that the machine can generate an outburst, which’ll further help for it’s propulsion. There is still more to it, the bot is sheathed with a soft flexible cover, which is not only stretchable but also electroluminescence.
PR2 can prepare coffee autonomously: The Robo Barista
Researchers at Cornell have unleashed PR2, a robot that can prepare coffee autonomously. All the bot require is coffee maker of course and a manual of natural language instructions.
The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg is quite an impressive book. With its umpteen examples of how people defy old habits at the sake of new productive habits and eventually achieve marvelous feat is extremely inspiring. Although the book does not promote or support one secret formula for quickly changing any habit but it makes one think with a different angle. Case studies of corporate success of Alcoa, Starbucks, and P&G’s Febreeze were quite a fascinating read.