Category: Change
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Complexity. Animals. Life. Death. Evolution. You.
In the beginning, life was small. For billions of years, all life on Earth was microscopic, consisting mostly of single cells. Then suddenly, about 570 million years ago, complex organisms including animals with soft, sponge-like bodies up to a meter long sprang to life. And for 15 million years, life at this size and complexity…
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Sensing… Not sensing… Being…
Engineers have created an electronic 'skin' in an effort to restore a real sense of touch for amputees using prosthetics. (1) We have senses. We lose senses. We improve senses. We regain senses. And at no point do we ever stop to wander. That what can so easily change. Cannot truly exist after all… In…
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Replicability of results. A problem we choose to ignore.
Can companies rely on the results of one or two scientific studies to design a new industrial process or launch a new product? In at least one area of materials chemistry, the answer may be yes - but only 80 percent of the time. The replicability of results from scientific studies has become a major…
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Re-mapping the brain… Moving mountains…
Targeted motor and sensory reinnervation (TMSR) is a surgical procedure on patients with amputations that reroutes residual limb nerves towards intact muscles and skin in order to fit them with a limb prosthesis allowing unprecedented control. By its nature, TMSR changes the way the brain processes motor control and somatosensory input; however, the detailed brain…
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