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175 posts by James Christian Smith

• Rooftop Panels Can Purify Polluted Air 100x Faster Than Trees Using Photosynthesis of Plants – May 15, 2019
• A Conversation with Jackie Ying – May 15, 2019
• Understanding the power of honey through its proteins – May 15, 2019
• Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data (ACS Publications) – May 15, 2019
• For The First Time, Scientists Turn Human Stem Cells Into Insulin-Producing Cells – May 14, 2019
• Michael Phelps: The ‘natural’ transhuman athlete – May 2, 2019
• German Bionic to present its first robot exoskeleton for industrial IoT – May 2, 2019
• Yara and IBM join forces to transform the future of farming – May 2, 2019
• Dino: Autonomous Weeding Robot Covers 12 Acres in 9 Hours – April 29, 2019
• Subscribe To Our Emails – April 29, 2019
• Hahn showcases ‘broad spectrum’ of automation solutions at Automate – April 29, 2019
• Cold Plasma Torch Produces a Cleansing Flame that Never Consumes – April 28, 2019
• Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) – April 28, 2019
• World’s largest medical drone delivery network takes flight in Ghana – April 26, 2019
• Why China’s electric-car industry is leaving Detroit, Japan, and Germany in the dust – April 22, 2019
• A phase I fixed-dose feasibility study of MK615 and gemcitabine in patients with advanced or metastatic pancreatic cancer – April 22, 2019
• Interfering trajectories in experimental quantum-enhanced stochastic simulation – April 22, 2019
• Man Makes and Sells Compostable Wild Grass Straws – April 22, 2019
• Qualcomm launches QCS400 SoC series: An AI-enabled chipset with far-field voice capabilities for smart speakers – April 22, 2019
• As Brain Organoids Mature, Ethical Questions Arise – April 22, 2019
• The University Is Proud and Congratulates Its Graduate Dr. Thabat Al-khatib and Researcher in Applied Neuroscience for Receiving Two Patents of Medicine for the Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease – April 21, 2019
• Fit to drive? The car will judge – April 18, 2019
• MD Stem Cells New Alzheimer’s Stem Cell Treatment Shows Early Benefits – April 18, 2019
• Russian TV launches robot news presenter – April 18, 2019
• Metamaterials Embedded with Geometrical Optics Could Simplify Optical Devices – April 18, 2019
• Biophotonic Therapy Can Destroy Bacteria and Viruses in Organs Before Transplantation – April 17, 2019
• Robotic Machine Vision Solution Can Process Shiny Objects – April 17, 2019
• Even moderate intake of red meat raises cancer risk, study finds – April 17, 2019
• Discovery! 3rd Planet Found in Two-Star ‘Tatooine’ Star System – April 16, 2019
• New discovery makes fast-charging, better performing lithium-ion batteries possible – April 16, 2019
• Scanning for cancer treatment – April 16, 2019
• The War to Remotely Control Self-Driving Cars Heats Up – March 28, 2019
• Researchers Use Sound to Make a Range of Objects Float for the First Time – March 22, 2019
• VA to Offer New Ketamine-Based Nasal Spray for Depression – March 21, 2019
• Artificial Intelligence Creates a New Generation of Machine Learning – March 17, 2019
• Scientists Kept Rats Sober – March 16, 2019
• Anti-aging research: ‘Prime time for an impact on the globe’ – March 16, 2019
• Stem Cell Therapies for Treating Diabetes: Progress and Remaining Challenges – March 16, 2019
• 4D printing multi-metal products with a desktop electrochemical 3D printer – March 15, 2019
• The Nobel Prize – March 15, 2019
• Ethicist Warns: Future AI Could Take Revenge for How We Treat It Now – March 14, 2019
• 5 of Einstein’s Most Epic Fails That Prove He Was Human – March 14, 2019
• Fungi cause brain infection and memory impairment in mice – March 14, 2019
• How to Steal DNA With Sound – March 14, 2019
• UDrone: Drone with Brain & Gesture Control – March 13, 2019
• Bugatti uses SLM Solutions additive manufacturing systems in component production – March 13, 2019
• Don’t adjust your sets – new research could revolutionise fiber-optic communications – March 13, 2019
• Yaron Fuchs Awarded Sartorius & Science Prize – March 11, 2019
• THE AOA PROBLEM – WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT (reprinted from Curt Lewis Flight Safety Information News) – March 10, 2019
• The Smart Cities of the Future Are Already Taking Off – March 9, 2019
• The World’s Most Valuable AI Companies, and What They’re Working On – March 9, 2019
• Intel Unveils the Intel Neural Compute Stick 2 at Intel AI Devcon Beijing for Building Smarter AI Edge Devices – March 3, 2019
• A systematic study of microdosing psychedelics – March 3, 2019
• Rwanda Has Just Completed Over 10,000 Deliveries of Health Supplies Via Medical Drones – March 2, 2019
• New species of ‘golden death’ bacterium digests parasitic worms from the inside out – March 2, 2019
• Scientists discover predictors that determine toxic fats in the liver – March 1, 2019
• Study finds that in mice, lycopene in tomatoes reduced fatty liver disease, inflammation and liver cancer – March 1, 2019
• U-Md. researchers develop smart fabric that automatically warms or cools you off – February 28, 2019
• Researchers develop fire-retardant coating featuring renewable materials – February 28, 2019
• ToRPEDO Privacy Attack on 4G/5G Networks Affects All U.S. Carriers – February 28, 2019
• UCF Researchers Develop First Supersymmetric Laser Array – February 28, 2019
• NVIDIA Transfer Learning Toolkit – February 28, 2019
• Meet the ‘preeminent AI company on earth,’ but can it succeed in healthcare? – February 28, 2019
• Korea: Researchers 3D Printing Tracheas with Epithelial Cells & Chondrocytes – February 28, 2019
• Apple Plans Sleep Tracking Feature for Future Watch – February 28, 2019
• New milestones in helping prevent eye disease with Verily – February 28, 2019
• Mammalian Near-Infrared Image Vision through Injectable and Self-Powered Retinal Nanoantennae – February 28, 2019
• Powerful Magnetic Energy Blows Up a Lab – February 27, 2019
• The foods that might help with dementia – February 24, 2019
• The Effect of Cannabis on Dementia Related Agitation and Aggression – February 24, 2019
• Cannabis Therapeutics and the Future of Neurology – February 24, 2019
• New material could ‘drive wound healing’ using the body’s inbuilt healing system – February 24, 2019
• This Fast Food Drive-Thru Is Now Using AI to Take Orders – February 22, 2019
• Breastmilk microbiome linked to method of feeding – February 22, 2019
• Video: Glitter-sized ‘metalenses’ may soon power your smartphone camera – February 22, 2019
• New NASA Team Tackles Next Challenges in Detecting Life Beyond Earth – February 22, 2019
• A New Treatment Can Relieve Food Allergies, But Few Doctors Offer It – February 22, 2019
• Forget the Blood of Teens. This Pill Promises to Extend Life for a Nickel a Pop – February 21, 2019
• India Just Swore in Its First Robot Police Officer – February 21, 2019
• A philosopher argues that an AI can never be an artist – February 21, 2019
• Israeli team develops way to find genetic flaws in fetus at 11 weeks – February 21, 2019
• Chinese news station unveils world’s first female AI news anchor – February 21, 2019
• Common acid reflux medications linked to increased kidney disease risk – February 21, 2019
• Talga reports positive test results on its graphene silicon Li-ion battery anode project – February 19, 2019
• These are the Russian-speaking Jewish Americans you never knew changed your life – February 18, 2019
• Investors bet billions on health-care start-ups with paltry publication records – February 18, 2019
• How to use Twitter to further your research career – February 18, 2019
• Machine learning unlocks plants’ secrets – February 18, 2019
• New pill can deliver insulin – February 18, 2019
• Fresh evidence overturns the identification of a factor involved in blood-vessel dilation – February 18, 2019
• Small research teams ‘disrupt’ science more radically than large ones – February 18, 2019
• Optical cooling achieved by tuning thermal radiation – February 18, 2019
• How broken sleep promotes cardiovascular disease – February 18, 2019
• Potential food allergens in medications – February 18, 2019
• Oncology Meets Immunology: The Cancer-Immunity Cycle – February 17, 2019
• Cholesterol Metabolism Is a Druggable Axis that Independently Regulates Tau and Amyloid-β in iPSC-Derived Alzheimer’s Disease Neurons – February 17, 2019
• Stem Cells, Genome Editing, and the Path to Translational Medicine – February 17, 2019
• A Paradigm Shift in Cancer Immunotherapy: From Enhancement to Normalization – February 17, 2019
• Safer-by-Design Fluorescent Nanocrystals: Metal Halide Perovskites vs Semiconductor Quantum Dots – February 15, 2019
• Exponential Medicine – February 15, 2019
• Combine AI With Crowdsourcing and What Do You Get? Turbocharged Innovation – February 15, 2019
• Nonmechanical on-chip waveguide device steers mid-infrared beams – February 14, 2019
• Cesarean Section — A Brief History – February 8, 2019
• Robert Felkin MD (1853–1926) and Caesarean delivery in Central Africa – February 8, 2019
• Eva Ramón Gallegos’s research works – February 8, 2019
• Real life Experience of Medical Cannabis Treatment in Autism: Analysis of Safety and Efficacy – February 6, 2019
• Potential Alzheimer’s Therapy UB-311 Safe, Effective, Phase 2a Trial Finds – February 6, 2019
• Caltech Building Agile Humanoid Robot – February 6, 2019
• A MEMS Device Harvests Vibrations to Power the IoT – February 6, 2019
• Plant-e: roots, shoots, leaves – February 6, 2019
• This AI Can Tell Your Age – February 6, 2019
• A Non-Toxic Thermoelectric Generator for Wearable Tech – February 6, 2019
• DNA-Functionalized Metal–Organic Framework Nanoparticles for Intracellular Delivery of Proteins – February 6, 2019
• Omnidirectional Robots Used for Lab Automation – February 5, 2019
• Celebrate the women behind the periodic table – February 1, 2019
• IRobot Finally Announces Awesome New Terra Robotic Lawnmower – February 1, 2019
• What’s Better Than 40 GPU-based Computers? A Computer With 40 GPUs – February 1, 2019
• Healbot-T Rehabilitation Robot – February 1, 2019
• Meet the Bots That Review and Write Snippets of Facebook’s Code – February 1, 2019
• Lab-Grown Chicken Nuggets Made From Feathers to Hit Shelves – February 1, 2019
• A gut punch fights cancer and infection – January 31, 2019
• Business Forum: Photons are good business — An interview with Akira Hiruma – January 29, 2019
• A Magnetically Controlled Soft Microrobot Steering a Guidewire in a Three-Dimensional Phantom Vascular Network – January 28, 2019
• Linbots: Soft Modular Robots Utilizing Voice Coils – January 28, 2019
• Soft Radio-Frequency Identification Sensors: Wireless Long-Range Strain Sensors Using Radio-Frequency Identification – January 28, 2019
• Bricks Made From Human Waste Could Be The Future of The Construction Industry – January 28, 2019
• All-photonic quantum repeaters could lead to a faster, more secure global quantum internet – January 28, 2019
• Design and Clinical Evaluation of the Interoperable Artificial Pancreas System (iAPS) Smartphone App: Interoperable Components with Modular Design for Progressive Artificial Pancreas Research and Development – January 28, 2019
• We analyzed 16,625 papers to figure out where AI is headed next – January 28, 2019
• AI Helps Amputees Walk With a Robotic Knee – January 27, 2019
• AI technology accelerates and augments legal work – January 27, 2019
• ‘Build the wall’ with fiber optics – January 27, 2019
• Can AI Really Be a Game Changer in Cervical Cancer Screenings? – January 27, 2019
• Saint Jean Carbon is developing graphene gel salt water batteries – January 26, 2019
• Near-infrared metasurface reflects only one direction of circularly polarized light – January 26, 2019
• Tech Trends 2019 – January 25, 2019
• Engineering CRISPR-Cas9 RNA–Protein Complexes for Improved Function and Delivery – January 25, 2019
• BrainRobotics’ EMG Controlled Prosthetic Hand – January 25, 2019
• 3D eye simulation directs noninvasive process to prolong glasses-free vision – January 24, 2019
• Scientists analyzed the gamma rays emitted during the NPDGamma Experiment and found parity-violating asymmetry – January 21, 2019
• Flexible Loudspeaker Made of Nanowires Will Stick to Your Skin and Play Music – January 20, 2019
• On-chip optical link is created on electronic chip for the first time – January 17, 2019
• A Review of the Potential of Phytochemicals from Prunus africana (Hook f.) Kalkman Stem Bark for Chemoprevention and Chemotherapy of Prostate Cancer – January 16, 2019
• Say ‘bye bye’ to faulty mobile phones and solar cells – January 16, 2019
• MIT Quantum Computing Online Courses for Professionals – January 14, 2019
• Harvard researchers see alien potential in mysterious object – January 11, 2019
• ​In 1983, Isaac Asimov predicted the world of 2019. Here’s what he got right – January 11, 2019
• Tiny, implantable device uses light to treat bladder problems – January 8, 2019
• Facility for Rare Isotope Beams – January 8, 2019
• A weird type of zirconium soaks up neutrons like a sponge – January 8, 2019
• Using AI to detect and deter poachers – January 8, 2019
• How AI is Working to Crush Financial Fraud – January 8, 2019
• ‘Flipped’ metal oxide cage can sort CO2 from CO – January 8, 2019
• Quantum scientists demonstrate world-first 3D atomic-scale quantum chip architecture – January 7, 2019
• TresClean: The #TresClean Project will develop high- throughput laser-based texturing for fluid- repellent and antibacterial metal surfaces using innovative industrial high-average power ultrashort-pulsed lasers in combination with high-performance scanning heads – January 7, 2019
• Share Your Thoughts and Gain Perspective with IBM Project Debater – January 7, 2019
• Intraoperative detection of blood vessels with an imaging needle during neurosurgery in humans – January 7, 2019
• Researchers discover new drug cocktail that increases human beta cell proliferation at rapid rates – January 7, 2019
• Immune cells track hard-to-target brain tumours – January 7, 2019
• A fast quantum interface between different spin qubit encodings – January 7, 2019
• Qubits Communications – January 7, 2019
• Carbon Nanotubes and Related Nanomaterials: Critical Advances and Challenges for Synthesis toward Mainstream Commercial Applications – January 7, 2019
• New Gene Therapy for Vision Loss Proven Safe in Humans – January 7, 2019
• “Bionic Mushrooms” Fuse Nanotech, Bacteria and Fungi – January 7, 2019
• Innovative ‘Mega Library’ Gives Materials Engineers New Hope – January 7, 2019
• AI Will Create Millions More Jobs Than It Will Destroy. Here’s How – January 7, 2019
• Vaccination-induced skin-resident memory CD8+ T cells mediate strong protection against cutaneous melanoma – January 7, 2019
• Toward unhackable communication: Single particles of light could bring the ‘quantum internet’ – January 7, 2019
• ‘Chemo brain’ caused by malfunction in three types of brain cells, study finds – January 7, 2019
• Why the Future of Solar Power Is from Space – January 7, 2019
• Engineers create an inhalable form of messenger RNA – January 7, 2019
• Binghamton University researchers design a more durable MEMS switch – January 7, 2019
• Novel fiber-optic device lays foundation for quantum-enhanced measurements – January 7, 2019
• Industry Predictions: AI, Machine Learning, Analytics & Data Science Main Developments in 2018 and Key Trends for 2019 – January 7, 2019
• IBM CEO Ginni Rometty Delivers Opening Keynote at CES 2019 on What’s Next in Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and Quantum Computing – January 7, 2019