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Brown University creates first wireless, implanted brain-computer interface
Brown algae are particularly widespread on rocky shores in temperate and cold latitudes and there absorb large amounts… [more] Credit: Hagen Buck-Wiese/Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
The great potential of brown algae for climate protection
Found: The switch that makes human brown fat burn energy – and possibly control our weight
A promising new organism for the bio-refining of brown macroalgae which can replace starch-crop biomass
Could a drug that turns fat ‘brown’ help fight obesity?
Brown researchers build robotic bat wing
Brown liquor and solar cells to provide sustainable electricity
Nanotech coatings offer possibility of ‘brown’ electricity from sewage
SBUDNIC, a bread-loaf-sized cube satellite with a drag sail made from Kapton polyimide film, designed and built by students at Brown reentered Earth's atmosphere five years ahead of schedule. Image courtesy of Marco Cross.
A low-cost way to reduce space junk
These images, adapted from the research paper, show that motor neurons in the spinal cord of an aged mouse (bottom) have fewer synaptic inputs than those in younger adults (top).
Therapeutic treatments are possible for age-related motor deficits and mobility loss
Researchers from Rice University, Duke University, Brown University and Baylor College of Medicine developed a magnetic technology to wirelessly control neural circuits in fruit flies. They used genetic engineering to express heat-sensitive ion channels in neurons that control the behavior and iron nanoparticles to activate the channels. When researchers activated a magnetic field in the flies’ enclosure, the nanoparticles converted magnetic energy to heat, firing the channels and activating the neurons. An overhead camera filmed flies during experiments, and a visual analysis showed flies with the genetic modifications assumed the wing-spread posture within approximately half a second of receiving the magnetic signal. (Figure courtesy of C. Sebesta and J. Robinson/Rice University)
Progress: Methods for activating specific regions of the brain in humans for therapeutic purposes without ever having to perform surgery
Is this the way to build a cure for heart attacks?
Going ‘fishing’ with superparamagnetic nanoparticles to remove PFAS or other contaminants easily from polluted water
The team demonstrated that a single gram of inactive, dried yeast cells can remove up to 12 milligrams of lead in aqueous solutions with initial lead concentrations below 1 part per million. They also showed that the process is very rapid, taking less than five minutes to complete. Image: Courtesy of the researchers
An inexpensive, abundant, and simple material for removing lead contamination from drinking water supplies