For patients with social anxiety disorder (SAD), current behavioral and pharmaceutical treatments work about half the time. After weeks of investment in therapy, about half of patients will likely still suffer with…
Day: August 11, 2015
MIT designed a bipedal robot “HERMES” for disaster response
MIT‘s two-legged robot named HERMES is wreaking controlled havoc: punching through drywall, smashing soda cans, kicking over trash buckets, and karate-chopping boards in half. The robots actions, however, are not its own….
Google announced a new parent company Alphabet
Google Inc. announced plans to create a new public holding company, Alphabet Inc., and a new operating structure to increase management scale and focus on its consolidated businesses. Under the new operating…
Samsung introduces 3rd generation V-NAND flash memory
Samsung Electronics announced that it has begun mass producing the industry’s first 256-gigabit (Gb), three-dimensional (3D) Vertical NAND (V-NAND) flash memory based on 48 layers of 3-bit multi-level-cell (MLC) arrays for use…
MIT team creates a superfluid gas in a record-high magnetic field
MIT physicists have created a superfluid gas, the so-called Bose-Einstein condensate, for the first time in an extremely high magnetic field. The magnetic field is a synthetic magnetic field, generated using laser…