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LinkedIn founder REGRETS interactions with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
Reid Hoffman, the founder of employment-oriented social media platform LinkedIn, expressed regret over his interactions with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
He expounded on this regret in an email to Axios, saying that it followed Epstein’s first conviction for soliciting an underage prostitute. Hoffman, however, explained that he was forced to meet with Epstein after a former...
NASA’s humanoid robot put to the test for ultimate Mars challenge
NASA’s Robonauts are being put to the test in Mars-like obstacle courses in order to pave the way for future humanoid space exploration and help bridge the expansive gap between Earth and human colonization of the red planet.
NASA built four six-foot, 290-pound, Iron man-like pieces of machinery named Valkyrie, at the cost of about $2 million each, and then outsourced three of them to universities...
Toyota invests $50 million in US AI research
The world’s largest car manufacturing company, Toyota, has announced an investment of $50 million in joint artificial intelligence research centers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University.
The research will focus on social benefits such as how to make cars safer and how to enhance people’s quality of life through enhanced mobility and robotics, especially among the...
US Scientists discover Obesity Gene and it can be "Turned Off"
Researchers have managed to identify a generic ‘console’ that makes some people more prone to obesity. But this ‘console’ can be switched off. So those who enjoy a Big Mac and sitting in front of TV instead of working out can lose weight while asleep.
The so-called FTO region that “harbors the strongest genetic association with obesity” was identified in the study conducted by scientists...
Amnesia-hit patients can recall their lost memories
A new study raises hopes for patients with severe amnesia.
Memories lost as a result of amnesia can be retrieved by activating certain brain cells with light, a new study says.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have managed to recover lost memories of a group of laboratory mice, hit by amnesia, through using a technology known as optogenetics, or the use of light to prompt...
Brain waves help memory-based decision making, researchers say
Two areas of the brain, the hippocampus (yellow) and the prefrontal cortex (blue), use two different brain-wave frequencies to communicate as the brain learns to associate unrelated objects.
The key learning regions in the brain, the hippocampus and the prefrontal cortex, use different wave frequencies during memory-based decision making, a new research says.
The study was carried out by Massachusetts...
Mysteries of history: Greek fire, Damascus steel and beam weapon
It is generally believed that mankind of the XXI century is much more progressive than our predecessors, who lived hundreds and thousands of years ago. However, in ancient times, there were technologies that could come in handy in our days. Unfortunately, though, the secrets of those technologies have been irretrievably lost.
Mysteries of History: Greek fire
Let’s take the period of antiquity....
Memories can be overwritten, scientists find
Scientists have been capable of switching mice’s good memories with bad ones and vice versa.
The discovery was the result of work done by a team, formed from a collaboration between Japan’s RIKEN institute and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US.
The scientists injected two groups of male mice with light-sensitive algae protein, which enabled them to identify the formation...
Scientists develop self-assembling robot
A team of engineers from Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers have developed an affordable self-assembling robot.
The android is made of a sheet of composite paper, which has had different parts, including hinges, motors, batteries, and a microcontroller, installed upon it.
Having been fitted with the batteries, the automaton starts to assume its designated form and launch into...
US researchers create wearable books that enhance story
Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States have developed a wearable book that enables the readers to experience the characters’ feelings as they read the story.
The book, which has been created under a project dubbed sensory fiction, is covered in sensors and actuators and is hooked up to a vest.
The vest has a personal heating device to change the temperature...
Europeans make up a large family, says study
In Europe, nearly everyone is related. A new genetic analysis showed that Europeans have a high degree of relatedness between themselves and are descendants of a group of ancestors who lived only a thousand years ago. The study examined the genetic proximity between residents of 39 countries over the past three thousand years to compare the genetic sequences of two thousand individuals.
For researchers...
MIT begins probe into US activist Aaron Swartz's death
Aaron Swartz, a US internet activist, who was critical of US President Barack Obama’s policies and was recently found dead in his apartment.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has launched an inquiry into the recent death of a US internet activist, who was critical of US President Barack Obama’s so-called kill list.
On Sunday, Leo Rafael Reif, the president of the MIT, called on Engineering...
MIT researchers discover existence of new state of magnetism
MIT physicists grew this pure crystal of herbertsmithite in their laboratory. This sample, which took 10 months to grow, is 7 mm long (just over a quarter-inch) and weighs 0.2 grams.
Experts from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) say that they have been able to demonstrate the existence of a new state of magnetism.
MIT physics professor Young Lee, the senior author of the study, said...
NASA crashes Grail probes into lunar mountain
The image shows the final flight path for NASA’s twin Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (Grail) mission spacecraft, which impacted the Moon on Dec. 17, 2012.
NASA’s twin Grail probes have smashed themselves into a lunar mountain, ending their year-long mission of mapping lunar gravity and providing data on its composition.
The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, known as Grail,...
Researchers indentify massive galaxy with high star production rate
The handout illustration provided by NASA shows Phoenix, the newly-found galaxy.
Astronomers have recently discovered a distant gigantic galaxy cluster that is capable of giving birth to new stars at an extraordinary rate.
Observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, the US National Science Foundation’s South Pole Telescope and eight other observatories, showed that the newly-discovered...
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