Researchers of the Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering and the University of Washington Department of Electrical Engineering have developed a mobile phone that lets you call without battery. The device extracts its power from ambient radio signals and ...
Read More »Do we live in a hologram? Video reveals controversial theory
There are some who believe that our universe is a massive hologram, in which 3-D reality as we know it exists within a two-dimensional boundary, Joinfo.com reports with reference to MailOnline. While it may seem radical, the idea has recently ...
Read More »Scientists Say That Caffeine Is Powerful Pain-Reliever
Coffee is full of surprises, and one more was uncovered this week by researchers from the Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH). According to Futurism, they found that coffee’s secret weapon, caffeine, and another stimulating chemical helped sleep-deprived mice deal with pain. ...
Read More »A Superbug-Killing Compound Was Just Discovered in the Depths of a Toxic Lake
From the depth of what should be — by all accounts — a pit of despair, a new hope in the fight against antibiotic-resistant superbugs is emerging, according to Futurism. The Berkeley Pit, located in southwestern Montana, is an abandoned ...
Read More »Cryogenically Frozen Brains Will Be ‘Woken up’ and Transplanted in Donor Bodies Within Three Years, Neurosurgeon Claims
Professor Sergio Canavero, Director of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group, says some remarkable breakthroughs in medicine are on the way, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Futurism. Four years ago, the acclaimed neurosurgeon announced his plan to complete the world’s first ...
Read More »Plastic-eating caterpillar could munch waste, scientists say
Researchers at Cambridge University have discovered that the larvae of the moth, which eats wax in bee hives, can also degrade plastic, according to the BBC. Experiments show the insect can break down the chemical bonds of plastic in a ...
Read More »New Evidence Shows We Might Have Gotten Cosmic Evolution Entirely Wrong
Galaxies started out low-mass and tiny, busy forming stars. At least, that’s what we thought until astronomers spotted an inactive galaxy dubbed ZF-COSMOS-20115, according to Futurism. Just 1.7 billion years after the universe formed, ZF-COSMOS-20115 was already a quiescent, or ...
Read More »Scientists grew beating human heart tissue on spinach leaves
Researchers have turned to lab-growing human tissue as one way of meeting the high demand for tissue and organ transplants, Joinfo.com reports referring to CNBS News. Their experiment may solve a serious limitation facing researchers attempting to grow human organs ...
Read More »Giant Steps For Humankind: New Spinal Cord Treatment Lets Paralyzed Man Stand
Researchers at the Mayo Clinic successfully used intense physical therapy and electrical stimulation on the spinal cord to help a patient stand, intentionally move his paralyzed legs, and make step-like motions. These were the first movements the patient had experienced ...
Read More »A Doctor Claims to Have Found a Cure for Sepsis
Sepsis, formerly known as blood poisoning, is the body’s response to infection. It causes a body-wide inflammation with the potential to cause tissue damage, organ failure, or even death. The condition is hard to predict, and even more difficult to ...
Read More »Take a deep breath – it will calm your brain, study shows
When you’re stressed, people often advise you to take a deep breath — and for good reason, a new study shows. Slowing your breathing calms you, and now scientists may have figured out how you can relax your brain through ...
Read More »Brain implants helped quadriplegic man move his arm
A quadriplegic man has had his right arm and hand brought back to life with the help of thought-control technology, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Sky News. Bill Kochevar, 56, was paralysed below his shoulders in a cycling accident eight ...
Read More »Research Shows That 40% of Cancers Are Entirely Preventable
Cancer, the emperor of all maladies, is tragic under most any circumstances, but it’s even worse when the condition could have been prevented, according to Futurism. Scientists estimate that 40 percent of all cancers are preventable, and those figures include ...
Read More »Fruit Diet Helped The Primates’ Brain To Evolve
The researchers think that the ancestors of human, also known as primates, used to live on a fruit-filled diet and thus developed a bigger brain eventually, Joinfo.com reports with reference to The Science Times. According to BBC, previous studies had ...
Read More »‘I am an Arctic researcher. Donald Trump is deleting my citations’ – Victoria Herrmann
According to Victoria Herrmann’s report published in The Guardian, Trump administration continues to delete data on Arctic research and climate measurements, Joinfo.com reports. “As an Arctic researcher, I’m used to gaps in data. Just over 1% of US Arctic waters ...
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