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First home brain implant lets ‘locked-in’ woman communicate
After training on whack-a-mole and Pong, a woman paralysed by ALS has become the first person to use a brain implant at home, communicating by thought alone. By Jessica Hamzelou.
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An Astrolinguist Explains How to Talk to Aliens
The president of METI International weighs in on the science and fiction of ‘Arrival.’ By Daniel Oberhaus.
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NASA X-Ray Tech Could Enable Superfast Communication in Deep Space
NASA’s NavCube project could power an X-ray communication demonstration in space. By Charles Q. Choi.
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How scientists use Slack
Eight ways labs benefit from the popular workplace messaging tool. By Jeffrey M. Perkel. (Dec. 29, 2016)
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Completely ‘locked-in’ patients can communicate
Patients with no control over their body answer questions as a computer interprets brain signals. By James Gallagher.
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Big scientific breakthrough at sub-atomic level holds promise for secure comms
Chinese scientists have pulled off a major feat with one of the sub-atomic world's weirdest phenomena: photons that behave like twins and experience the same things simultaneously, even over great distances.
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China sends unhackable message nearly 750 miles using quantum satellite
Hacking as it relates to cyber warfare and espionage is as hot a topic as it’s ever been, and everyone from the government to major tech firms like Apple and Google are working on locking down communications so as to make them as hack-proof as possible. Now, it seems China is taking the lead, and the country just used a quantum satellite launched last year to send what researches suggest is an unhackable communication, made possible by a branch of physics once pioneered by Albert Einstein.
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The Bizarre World of Plant Communication
It has long been held that plants are essentially non-responsive organisms, but new studies suggest that there may be more to plants than meets the eye. By Micah Hanks.
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The Parasite That Wires Plants Together
By draining the fluids from several hosts, dodder vines inadvertently allow plants to communicate with each other and share alarm signals. By Ed Yong.
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The Beautiful Intelligence of Bacteria and Other Microbes
Bacterial biofilms and slime molds are more than crude patches of goo. Detailed time-lapse microscopy reveals how they sense and explore their surroundings, communicate with their neighbors and adaptively reshape themselves. By John Rennie.
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Driverless cars might follow the rules of the road, but what about the language of driving?
A sociolinguist wonders if they’ll ever be able to interpret the waves, high beams and middle fingers of human drivers.
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Why we say things before we think.
Researchers found that the brain began to prepare the motor areas to respond very early, during initial stimulus presentation, suggesting that we get ready to respond even before we know what the response will be. This might explain why people sometimes say things before they think.
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Undersea cables the Achilles’ heel in lead-up to new cold war
Hostile acts against submerged Internet cables would put critical communications, trillions of dollars in transactions and the world economy at risk. By Doug Tsuruoka. (Jan. 6, 2018)
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In Germany, the world’s most romantic postbox
A 500-year-old oak tree outside the town of Eutin, Germany, has been matching singles for more than a century and is reportedly responsible for 100-plus marriages.
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Cells Talk and Help One Another via Tiny Tube Networks
Long-overlooked “tunneling nanotubes” and other bridges between cells act as conduits for sharing RNA, proteins or even whole organelles. By Viviane Callier.
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How Does Mastodon Work?
If you're asking yourself "how does Mastodon work?" this post will help. By Kev Quirk.
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Why 5G will disappoint everyone
Wireless connections that are 20 times faster? What could be disappointing about that?
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A US start-up was told not to launch its mini satellites. It launched them anyway
A US tech start-up is slapped with a historic fine for launching unauthorised satellites, prompting warnings about runaway cowboy-like behaviour from private companies joining the space race.
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How Binge-Watching Netflix Warps Your View of the World
Do you view the world as overall nice or mean? Before you answer that question, you might want to tally up how much time you’ve spent binge-watching online shows lately. Online platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime have transformed the way we watch television shows—instead of waiting for a new episode to come out once a week, viewers can now watch their favorite series whenever and wherever it’s convenient.
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SpaceX Satellite Network Faces Canadian Competition
SpaceX's Starlink constellation has Canadian competition. Satellite communications firm Telesat is working on its own low-Earth orbit constellation -- and that's not the only other company competing in this growing playing field.
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