It's one of the most common arguments in basketball: Who hit that ball out of bounds? When two NBA players lunge for a ball end up tipping it out, neither wants to cop to the final touch. Refs are called in to arbitrate while both players deny their culpability, often in heated tones.
There's an obvious motive behind wanting to avoid blame, but a new study shows that there might also be a neurological basis behind both players' belief that their opponent touched the ball last. Our brains ...read more
Throat cancer, stroke and paralysis can rob people’s voices and strip away their ability to speak. Now, researchers have developed a decoder that translates brain activity into a synthetic voice. The new technology is a significant step toward restoring lost speech.
“We want to create technologies that can reproduce speech directly from human brain activity,” Edward Chang, a neurosurgeon at the University of California San Francisco, who led the new research, said in a press b ...read more
We know surprisingly little about seismicity (on Earth it would be earthquakes) on other planets. Although we have done a little seismology on the Moon, both "listening" for natural temblors or creating our own, beyond that, we haven't had much luck. Sure, the 1970's Viking landers had seismometers as part of their array of instruments, but they were sitting on the deck of the landers, not placed on the ground, so almost no useful data was collected.
The newest Mars lander, InSight, is th ...read more
The puzzle pieces appear to be falling into place for the start of a new bull run. Popular mainstream traditional asset trading platform TD Ameritrade reportedly shows simulated bitcoin trading, via its paper trading functionality. This has been reported by Twitter user Cryptopolis, and then further legitimized by Litecoin creator Charlie Lee.
TD trading oddity
On April 22, Twitter user Cryptopolis posted an exuberant tweet, claiming the occurrence of bitcoin trading on the NASDAQ stock ex ...read more
It seems like every few years there’s a virus or bacterium that threatens human health in a new way. But a new fungus that is a threat to humans? That doesn’t happen very often. That’s why we in the medical mycology community – the people who study dangerous fungi – are so intrigued and concerned by news reports about a new, deadly fungus called Candida auris.
C. auris is believed to have been first identified in 2009 in the ear canal of a patient in Japan, but has ...read more
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