A new report highlights the health hazards faced by workers handling hydrofluoric acid, an agent common in commercial
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ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft has provided evidence for a daily water-ice cycle on and near the surface of comets.
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A 28-year-old quadriplegic is the first person to experience tactile sensation through a prosthetic hand, according to DARPA. The organisation accomplished this feat by routing signals from torque sensors housed in the mechanical prosthesis to electrode arrays attached to the volunteer's sensory cortex—the part of the brain that identifies stimuli like touch.
"By wiring a sense of touch from a mechanical hand directly into the brain, this work shows the potential for seamless bio-technological restoration of near-natural function," said DARPA program manager Justin Sanchez in a press release.
The prosthesis used in the experiment was created by the Applied Physics Lab at John Hopkins University, and is capable of detecting when pressure is applied to a finger. DARPA reported nearly 100 percent accuracy in an initial set of tests. Despite being blindfolded, the volunteer, whose name is being withheld, was able to tell which extremity was being touched, and even when researchers were attempting to trick him.
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If there's one thing in science that is constantly dividing scientists, it is the truth behind antimatters' existence
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As summer draws to a close, we look forward to the upcoming events at CERN and the surrounding area. Here are just a few of the events in store.
CERN is teaming up with several physics laboratories for an international photography competition: The Global Physics Photowalk. This Friday, selected photographers will be given the unique opportunity to explore the facilities of the world’s largest particle physics laboratory. The best photos will be chosen by a local jury and exhibited in 2016. Each laboratory will also choose three photos to be entered for the international competition, which will run until the end of the year. In this case, the winning photos will be selected by a jury and a public vote. They will be exhibited and also featured in the CERN Courier and Symmetry.
Follow the hashtag #PhysPics15 for updates on the day and find out more about the CERN photowalk here.
CERN will be celebrating the 10th annual European Researchers’ night, an event celebrated in more than 300 cities in Europe. CERN, in collaboration with various partners, has organised the POP Science project that will take place at a shopping centre on the outskirts of Geneva. The programme is a unique blend of science, cinema, comics, poetry, music, games and encounters with artists and scientists. The main goal of the event is to bring together the general public and the exciting world of research and to show that science is fun and accessible to everyone.
Find out more about POP Science here, and events going on around Europe here.
THE Port Hackathon is a project designed to combine creative minds from CERN and non-profit organisations in interdisciplinary teams to work on humanitarian technology related benefits to society. The topics selected for the 2015 edition are inspired by the Red Cross, United Nations and many other NGOs in and around Geneva. Six inter-disciplinary teams with about 10 members each had 6 weeks of preparation with video-conference meetings and a 60 hour final hackathon to build working prototypes and tangible solutions for real life humanitarian problems.
The results will be webcast on Sunday. Find out more about the project here.
With the theme ‘Breaking the rules,’ TEDxCERN 2015 brings you ideas that challenge the norm with solutions that could transform lives. From using tangible interfaces that allow human interaction via e-devices, 3D technology as a means to revolutionize education and product fabrication, to exploring transformations of matter into habitable structures, TEDxCERN’s speakers this year bring you their visions for a new world. These ideas push beyond the boundaries of academia to inform our present and change our future.
Find out more about the event, the speakers and the webcast here.
New research led by scientists from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University shows
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