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Phys.org / Revealing the retina: Graphene corneal contact lens provides robust, irritation-free topographic electroretinography

Our vision can be damaged or lost by damage to the retina—a sensory membrane lining the back of the eye that senses light, converting the image formed into electrochemical neuronal signals—resulting from two classes of ...

Aug 15, 2018 in Nanotechnology
Phys.org / Trophic coherence explains why networks have few feedback loops and high stability

(Phys.org)—Complexity – defined as having emergent properties or traits that are not a function of, and are therefore difficult or inherently impossible to predict from, the discrete components comprising the system – ...

Aug 14, 2017 in Physics
Phys.org / Your brain on mesh: Injectable flexible probe melds with neurons, causes little or no chronic immune response

(Phys.org)—Neuroprostheses, neural probes and other intraneural tissue implants have offered remarkable benefits to recipients in a number of areas in neuroscience research and biomedical applications, therapeutic examples ...

Jul 5, 2017 in Nanotechnology
Phys.org / Of wrinkles and wires: Capillarity-induced skin folding spontaneously forms aligned DNA nanowire

(Phys.org)—Nanowires fashioned from DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)—one of several type of molecular nanowires incorporating repeating molecular units—are exactly that: Geometrically wire-like DNA-based nanostructures defined ...

Jun 19, 2017 in Nanotechnology
Phys.org / Modeling morphology: Solid-solid phase transitions based on colloidal particle shape changes

(Phys.org)—Phase transitions are transformations that occur between states of matter—that is, between solid, liquid, gas, and less commonly between gas and plasma. What may be surprising is that solid-solid phase transitions, ...

Jun 5, 2017 in Physics
Medical Xpress / Resolving contradictions: Better understanding the basic role of the brain's Default Mode Network

(Medical Xpress)—With thousands of basic and clinical neuroscience studies carried out over the past 15 years, the Default Mode Network (DMN) – a network of highly co-correlated interacting regions whose activity is very ...

Dec 12, 2016 in Neuroscience
Phys.org / Biology, meet philology: First application of phylogenetic evolutionary framework to color naming

(Phys.org)—That there are universal patterns in the naming of colors across languages has long been a topic of discussion in a range of disciplines, including anthropology, cognitive science and linguistics. However, previous ...

Dec 9, 2016 in Biology
Phys.org / One day, many ideas: Future of Mind 2016 illuminates NYC (Part 1)

(Phys.org)—The shape that human cognition may take over the coming next half-century has become increasingly difficult to foresee. Moreover, accelerating advances in science, mathematics, computing, and culture – including ...

Dec 1, 2016 in Other Sciences
Phys.org / Managing complexity: Novel protein folding tool vastly simplifies understanding how sequence encodes structure

(Phys.org)—Protein folding is the process by which a polypeptide (a linear organic polymer chain consisting of many amino acid residues, or monomers) transforms from a random coil into the 3D conformation in which it can ...

Nov 29, 2016 in Biology
Medical Xpress / Your brain on math: Functional coupling between neural regions during mathematical cognition

(Medical Xpress)—While human infants, nonhuman primates and birds are capable of approximating or comparing rough arithmetic quantities, post-infant humans are unique in possessing precise mathematical cognition. Historically, ...

Nov 21, 2016 in Neuroscience
Tech Xplore / Human Level Artificial Intelligence 2016: Artificial General Intelligence and then some (Part 2)

(Tech Xplore)—In its inception, the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) sought to create computers with general intelligence analogous to our own. This proved to be too challenging and elusive, thereby leading AI research ...

Sep 27, 2016 in Computer Sciences
Tech Xplore / Human Level Artificial Intelligence 2016: Artificial General Intelligence and then some (Part 1)

(TechXplore)—In its inception, the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) sought to create computers with general intelligence analogous to our own. This proved to be too challenging and elusive, thereby leading AI research ...

Sep 26, 2016 in Computer Sciences