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Interlaced origami structure enables compact storage and high-strength robotic deployment

Researchers at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Seoul National University, have applied the principle of interlacing ...

For 33 years, a 'true story' about the 'the resonant frequency of a chicken's skull cavity' buried in an MS-DOS help file has sustained an urban legend that a certain sound ...

"True story: 7 Hz is the resonant frequency of a chicken's skull cavity. This was determined empirically in Australia, where a new factory generating 7-Hz tones was located too close to a chicken ...
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Researchers use organoids to study the earliest moments of electrical activity in the brain

Humans have long wondered when and how we begin to form thoughts. Are we born with a pre-configured brain, or do thought ...
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UC Santa Cruz study shows developing brains have inherent structure

It’s been hard for the neuroscience community to take a step back from this old school interpretation that the brain is this ...
Communications of the ACM

The TRIPS Project

This article provides a retrospective on one such case: the TRIPS project at the University of Texas at Austin. This project started with early funding by the National Science Foundation (NSF) of ...