The most formidable barrier in medicine is the one that separates the brain from the bloodstream. Some small, simple chemical compounds such as paracetamol can cross the blood–brain barrier, but for larger molecules, such as proteins and messenger RNA, it is completely impermeable. There is a good reason for this — toxins and pathogens swimming
Ray Kurzweil, the pioneering AI scientist and Google researcher and “AI Visionary,” is joining a Silicon Valley startup developing a method to put computers in the brain by snorting nano particles. Subsense, a four-year old company developing brain computer interface technology, announced the news alongside Kurzweil at an event at its Palo Alto, California headquarters
A team of NASA-sponsored scientists and engineers has developed a novel approach to observing high-energy particles in the near-Earth space environment, incorporating miniaturized sensors into a compact, multi-view particle detection instrument like no other before. Built for NASA’s Relativistic Electron Atmospheric Loss (REAL) CubeSat mission, the innovative instrument (also called REAL) enables more comprehensive measurements
