Tag: humans
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From the depths of the cosmos!
Cataclysmic astrophysical events such as black hole mergers could release energy in unexpected forms. Exotic low-mass fields (ELFs), for example, could propagate through space and cause feeble signals detectable with quantum sensor networks such as the atomic clocks of the GPS network or the magnetometers of the GNOME network. These results are particularly interesting in…
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Touch Earth. Sense that flower…
Seismic waves, commonly associated with earthquakes, have been used by scientists to develop a universal scaling law for the sense of touch. A team used Rayleigh waves to create the first scaling law for touch sensitivity. (1) Touch the rhinoceros. Touch me. Touch Earth. They all feel it. And so do you. A sense of…
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Travelling into the Unthinkable…
A team of scientists has uncovered details of the neural mechanisms underlying the perception of objects. They found that patterns of neural signals, called traveling brain waves, exist in the visual system of the awake brain and are organized to allow the brain to perceive objects that are faint or otherwise difficult to see. (1)…
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Creating. Roaming free. (Will you kill me?)
Robots exploring deep bodies of water can only go so far before needing to recharge and upload data. Purdue University engineers have designed a mobile docking station system that would help them go farther. (1) How proud we are when creating something. Especially when creating something autonomous. Something that will roam free and independent. So…
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Can you accept yourself?
Researchers have now developed a new model that describes driving behavior on the basis of one underlying ‘human’ principle: managing the risk below a threshold level. This model can accurately predict human behavior during a wide range of driving tasks. In time, the model could be used in intelligent cars, to make them feel less…
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