News tagged with electrodes
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Stanford researchers find electrical current stemming from plants
In an electrifying first, Stanford scientists have plugged in to algae cells and harnessed a tiny electric current. They found it at the very source of energy production - photosynthesis, a plant's method of converting sunlight ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Apr 13, 2010 |
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Researchers make first direct recording of mirror neurons in human brain
(PhysOrg.com) -- Mirror neurons, many say, are what make us human. They are the cells in the brain that fire not only when we perform a particular action but also when we watch someone else perform that same ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 12, 2010 |
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A step toward lighter batteries: Metal catalysts play important role in improving efficiency
A team of researchers at MIT has made significant progress on a technology that could lead to batteries with up to three times the energy density of any battery that currently exists.
Apr 02, 2010 |
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Pacemaker in stomach helps against vomiting
People with severe stomach disorders can sometimes suffer from chronic vomiting. This symptom can be treated with electrical impulses from a pacemaker in the stomach. A new method enables patients who could benefit from this ...
Mar 29, 2010 |
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Typing words with your brain: Portable, easy-to-wear mind speller
Imec, Holst Centre and the lab of Neuro- and Psychophysiology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven today presented the Mind Speller, a portable, easy-to-wear, intelligent textual and verbal communications ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 23, 2010 |
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New device may enable limbs to be controlled by thought alone
(PhysOrg.com) -- A portable, plugless, brain-to-computer interface using electroencephalography (EEG) electrodes strapped to the scalp has been developed by a team in the US. The device may allow paraplegics ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 04, 2010 |
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Mind-reading computers turn heads at high-tech fair
Devices allowing people to write letters or play pinball using just the power of their brains have become a major draw at the world's biggest high-tech fair.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Mar 04, 2010 |
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The sound of silence: an end to noisy communications
It has happened to almost everyone. You are sitting on a train or a bus and someone right next to you is annoyingly shouting into his or her mobile phone.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Mar 02, 2010 |
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Photosynthesis: a new source of electrical energy
French scientists have transformed the chemical energy generated by photosynthesis into electrical energy. They thus propose a new strategy to convert solar energy into electrical energy in an environmentally-friendly ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Feb 18, 2010 |
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A new way to build membranes for fuel cells
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers at MIT and Pennsylvania State University has been developing a new method for producing novel kinds of membranes that could have improved properties for batteries, fuel ...
Feb 17, 2010 |
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Silicon-coated nanonets could build a better lithium-ion battery
A tiny scaffold-like titanium structure of Nanonets coated with silicon particles could pave the way for faster, lighter and longer-lasting Lithium-ion batteries, according to a team of Boston College chemists ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Feb 16, 2010 |
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Energy from light and water: New photocatalytic method for the clean production of hydrogen from water
(PhysOrg.com) -- Hydrogen-powered fuel cells and solar energy are the best hope for a more environmentally friendly and resource-sparing energy supply in the future. A combination of the two is considered to be particularly ...
Feb 09, 2010 |
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Detecting cancer early
A new testing method is being developed to detect cancer soon after the tumor has formed. It will identify characteristic substances in the blood which accompany a certain type of tumor. The first steps in ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 01, 2010 |
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Going Beyond Moore's Law by Using the Third Dimension
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have demonstrated a new microwire fabrication technique in which microwires self-assemble themselves in a three-dimensional template made of nematic liquid crystals. Amidst concerns ...
Jan 18, 2010 |
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To see or not to see
How do the visual images we experience, which have no tangible existence, arise out of physical processes in the brain? New research at the Weizmann Institute of Science provided evidence, for the first time, that an 'ignition' ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 14, 2010 |
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