Author Vishay SinghPosted on Categories Huffingtonpost
Erin True, Reuben Reuel and Amy Yee harnessed their creativity and found people eager to buy what their shops sell. ...read more
Author Vishay SinghPosted on Categories Discover Magazine
Dig into this serving of Thanksgiving projects with friends and family. This Thanksgiving, we are thankful for you, our outstanding community of citizen scientists and researchers. Thank you for your efforts, big and small. Happy Thanksgiving. Now, feast on these projects! Cheers! The SciStarter Team This project is for our New England friends. Record sightings of female turkeys and their young to help biologists learn about the impacts of winter storms on turkeys in New Hampshire. Location: ...read more
Author Vishay SinghPosted on Categories Discover Magazine
(Left) Picture of the laboratory drop tower. (Right) The expansion of granular clusters from impact. (Credit: Hiroaki Katsuragi and Jürgen Blum) By firing plastic, lead and glass projectiles into clumps of dust, researchers are improving our understanding of how planets form in the universe. Planets start out as loose clumps of dust grains. And, like flour clumps up as you mix it into cake batter, cosmic dust clumps eventually build up to become planets like Earth as gravity pul ...read more
Author Vishay SinghPosted on Categories Discover Magazine
A patient performs a video search. (Credit: Nuyujukian P, et al. PLoS ONE 13 (11): e0204566.) For the first time, three tetraplegic people are able to control a commercial tablet device with their thoughts thanks to a brain-computer interface. The research suggests that people who lose the capacity to speak may be able continue to communicate with the technology. Mind-controlled Mouse The three study participants are part of a clinical trial to test a brain-computer interface (BCI) called Brai ...read more
Author Vishay SinghPosted on Categories Discover Magazine
(Credit: Suriya Yapin/Shutterstock) From dogs to giraffes, humans aren’t the only ones who know the glorious relief that comes from scratching an itch. But the science around itchiness is still kind of hazy. Especially when it stems from skin diseases like psoriasis or eczema, which each affect more than 3 million people in the U.S. yearly. To try and get experts on the same page, researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine’s aptly named Center for the Study of ...read more