TEHRAN (Press Shia) – Researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN) have achieved a major breakthrough which could soon lead to partial restoration of sight in blind people using a brain implant that stimulates their optical cortex. - Science news - The team’s findings were published in Science on December 3, and detail experiments involving two sighted monkeys with...
TEHRAN (Press Shia Agency) – Researchers have developed “electronic skin” capable of recreating a sense of touch. - Science news - The Singapore researchers hope the innovation will allow people with prosthetic limbs to detect objects، as well as feel texture، or even temperature and pain. The device، dubbed ACES، or Asynchronous Coded Electronic Skin، is made up of 100 small...
TEHRAN (Press Shia) – A team of researchers has developed a machine learning process that uses big data to design new proteins. - Science news - Proteins are essential to the life of cells, carrying out complex tasks and catalyzing chemical reactions. Scientists and engineers have long sought to harness this power by designing artificial proteins that can perform new tasks, like treat...
TEHRAN (Press Shia) – Researchers found a new way to mimic the blood cells that carry oxygen. - Science news - By combining biological material with lab-grown polymers, an international team of bioengineers has developed what could be thought of as a Terminator red cell - one more than capable of matching the talents of what's already in our veins, ScienceAlert reported. Not only can this...
TEHRAN (Press Shia) – Researchers have integrated high-efficiency solar cells and electrode catalysts into an efficient, low-cost device that splits water to produce hydrogen fuel. - Science news - Rice University researchers have created an efficient, low-cost device that splits water to produce hydrogen fuel. The platform developed by the Brown School of Engineering lab of Rice materials...
TEHRAN (Press Shia Agency) – Researchers have created software to build AI programs that improve generation after generation without human input. - Science news - The program borrows concepts from Darwinian evolution, including “survival of the fittest,” replicated decades of AI research in a matter of days, and its designers think that one day, it could discover new approaches to AI,...