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Future computers that recognize the ways we express attitudes as well as words will enable much more sophisticated, user-friendly systems capable of understanding and participating in conversations In the future, computers may be capable of talking to us during meetings just like a remote teleconference participant. But to help move this science-fiction-sounding goal a step

“In this study we pioneered a totally new treatment for stroke, and possibly for all neurological disease” In the latest in a series of experiments testing the use of stem cells to treat neurological disease, researchers at Henry Ford Hospital have shown for the first time that microscopic material in the cells offers a “robust”

Image via Wikipedia By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Kishore Mahbubani, the dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, is over for tea and I am telling him about what I consider to be the most exciting, moon-shot-quality, high-aspiration initiative proposed by President Obama that no one has heard

Current clothing production is wasteful and takes up too much space. This could be a problem when it’s predicted 75% of the Earth’s population will be living in cities around 40 years from now. Space is already a valuable commodity but by the time this migration has taken place, space could be the most valuable. That’s why Joshua

‘Hollow flashlight’ harvests energy from heat of your hand A hollow flashlight powered by the heat from a user’s hand, designed by a 15-year-old girl from Victoria, has been picked for the finals of the Google Science Fair. Ann Makosinski, a Grade 10 student at St. Michaels University School in Victoria, is one of 15

Breeding crops with roots a metre deeper in the ground could lower atmospheric CO2 levels dramatically, with significant environmental benefits, according to research by a leading University of Manchester scientist. Writing in the Annals of Botany, Professor Douglas Kell argues that developing crops that produce roots more deeply in the ground could harvest more carbon

Utilizing existing features on smartphones, the MagPen provides users with a compatible and simple input tool regardless of the type of phones they are using A doctoral candidate at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) developed a magnetically driven pen interface that works both on and around mobile devices. This interface, called

A new study offers proof that stem cells can reconnect the inner ear to the brain More than 275 million people have moderate-to-profound hearing loss, and many of those cases are caused by a breach in the connection between the inner ear and the brain. Researchers have now shown how to repair a key component