University of Zurich
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The human brain remains an enigma, but neuroscience is beginning to unravel its secrets. To help us navigate the murky waters of peering into the human mind, researchers from Switzerland have proposed four new human rights relating to limitations on how the brain should be read or manipulated.
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Animal mobbing behavior is an interesting strategy used by the likes of small birds to team up and scare way would-be predators. But researchers have found that there is another motivation behind these cooperative swoops, a desire to impress by-standing females.
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Scientists are constantly studying every aspect of animal behavior, and there’s still a huge amount of it we don’t understand. Now, a team from UZH has unravelled the mystery of how ground squirrels remember where they’ve stashed their food, using, as it turns out, the position of the sun.
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A clinical trial of the antibody Aducanumab has yielded positive results, slowing cognitive decline in patients with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease. Larger-scale trials of the treatment, which attacks the brain plaques central to the condition, are now underway.
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Generally, water repellent objects and those that attract or absorb water have very different microscopic-level attributes. Now researchers have discovered a way to use a single type of material to perform both functions, switching between the two simply by applying electric current.
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A drone may one day come to your aid if you get lost in the woods. That's because scientists have developed machine learning-based software that already allows quadcopters to follow forest paths better than humans.
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When it comes to concerns about the widespread use of drones, one of the big ones is the worry that the things will crash on peoples' heads. That's why researchers at the University of Zurich have created a system to keep that from happening.
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Scientists from the University of Zurich (UZH) have discovered that DNA can survive not only a flight through space, but also re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere and still remain active.
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Lots of people make their own robots, and in all sorts of ways, but have you ever heard of anyone baking one in an oven? Researchers at MIT have injected further heat into the evolving 4D printing space by demonstrating how to create self-assembling bodies that fold together when baked.
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Researchers at the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich have designed a sophisticated computer system that is comparable in size, speed and energy consumption to the human brain.
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The University of Zurich’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (AI Lab) is building a robot toddler called “Roboy.”
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Scientists have lessened Alzheimer’s symptoms in mice by blocking an immune system transmitter.