Case Western Reserve University
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Origami has plenty to offer the world of robotics, the latest example of which is a tower-shaped soft robot that can grasp objects and could safely interact with humans, possibly even as a tool for invasive surgeries.
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Although a lot of us may already slather on the vitamin E when we get sunburned, it looks like vitamin D might also help our skin to recover. In a recent study conducted by Case Western University, it was found that orally-administered vitamin D can actually promote healing.
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By implanting recording electrodes under the skull of a paralyzed man and others into in his arm, scientists have reconnected his brain to his paralyzed muscles and enabled him to perform everyday tasks like drinking water and eating a forkful of food.
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Bacteria have had almost 100 years to become impervious to penicillin antibiotics, so finding news ways to take them down is getting critical. Now researchers have found what all good combat specialists have long known – getting each other's back in a fight can be a winning strategy.
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When you're not as big as the rest of the guys, you need different strategies to thrive. That seems to be what's happened with a rare fish known as a a Minckley's cichlid. While big males of the species horde the females, the smaller guys use speed and stealth to make sure their DNA gets passed on.
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In a similar vein to the recent stingray robot made of rat heart cells and a gold skeleton, researchers have created a robot from sea slug muscles attached to a 3D-printed body, aiming to one day send swarms of biohybrid robots on sea search missions.
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New software has been developed that incorporates all the complexities of the equations of Einstein's general theory of relativity to help produce models of the cosmos far more complex and detailed than ever before constructed
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Researchers have identified slow-moving brainwaves they say could be carried only by the brain's gentle electrical field, a mechanism previously thought to be incapable of spreading neural signals on its own.
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There are already stem cells that are capable of repairing the damage done by multiple sclerosis, but getting them to do so has proven very difficult. Now, however, scientists may have found the answer – and it involves medications that were designed to treat athlete's foot and eczema.
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Scientists have discovered a potential treatment that may steer cancer cells toward their own destruction. The study focused on a particular gene found to influence levels of a tumor-fighting protein, the increased presence of which makes cancer cells more vulnerable to existing forms of treatment.
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ScienceA new study at Case Western Reserve University is now advancing the radical new hypothesis that dark matter may in fact be made not of exotic subatomic particles, but rather of macroscopic objects which would mass anywhere from a tennis ball to a dwarf planet and as dense as a neutron star.
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A new prosthetic system allows amputees to feel familiar sensations and also, somewhat unexpectedly, reduces their phantom pain. Test patients were able to discern materials of different textures while blindfolded and to hold soft or brittle objects without crushing them.
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