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How to open the blood-brain-barrier with precision for safer drug delivery

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Consumer Technology Association inducts Ray Kurzweil, 11 other visionaries into the 2017 Consumer Technology Hall of Fame

Gary Shapiro (left) and Ray Kurzweil (right) (credit: CTA)

Nearly every job is becoming more digital — Brookings study

"Not everybody needs to go to a coding boot camp but they probably do need to know Excel"

The shares of U.S. jobs that require substantial digital knowledge rose rapidly between 2002 and 2016 --- mostly due to large changes in the digital content of existing occupations. (source: Brookings analysis of O*Net, OES, and Moody's data)

Mapping connections of single neurons using a holographic light beam

New technique triggers individual neurons for mapping precise connections in real time

The researchers used an opsin protein called CoChR, which generates a very strong electric current in response to light, and fused it to a small protein that directs the opsin into the cell bodies of neurons and away from axons and dendrites, which extend from the neuron body, forming “somatic channelrhodopsin” (soCoChR). This new opsin enabled photostimulation of individual cells in mouse cortical brain slices with single-cell resolution and with less than 1 millisecond temporal (time) precision --- achieving connectivity mapping on intact cortical circuits without crosstalk with neurons. Regions of stimulation are highlighted by magenta circles. Scale bar: 20 micrometers. (credit: Or A. Shemesh et al./Nature Nanoscience)

New method 3D-prints fully functional electronic circuits

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Integrated circuits printed directly onto fabric for the first time

Your future smartphone may be woven into your machine-washable clothes

This is a sample circuit printed on fabric. (credit: Felice Torrisi)

New silicon ‘Neuropixels’ probes record activity of hundreds of neurons simultaneously

Promise to have a major impact on neuroscience

A Neuropixels probe, containing nearly 1,000 electrical sensors positioned along a probe thinner than a human hair but long enough to access many regions of a rodent’s brain simultaneously (credit: Howard Hughes Medical Institute)

Scientists decipher mechanisms in cells for extending human longevity

A sirtuin-dependent intermittent pattern of chromatin silencing during yeast aging that is crucial for longevity

Aging cells periodically switch their chromatin state. The image illustrates the "on" and "off" patterns in individual cells. (credit: UC San Diego)

New magnetism-control method could lead to ultrafast, energy-efficient computer memory

A cobalt layer on top of a gadolinium-iron alloy allows for switching memory with a single laser pulse in just 7 picoseconds. The discovery may lead to a computing processor with high-speed, non-volatile memory right on the chip. (credit: Jon Gorchon et al./Applied Physics Letters)

Daydreaming means you’re smart and creative

It also enables you to switch to "autopilot" for routine tasks like driving

MRI scan showing regions of the default mode network (CC)

A tool to debug ‘black box’ deep-learning neural networks

Brings transparency to self-driving cars and other self-taught systems

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Researchers watch video images people are seeing, decoded from their fMRI brain scans in near-real-time

Advanced deep-learning "mind-reading" system even interprets image meaning, providing high-level categories (face, bird, etc.)

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