Mon fiancé est persuadé que son iPhone est l’extension de son cerveau, et que l’objet viendra un jour à disparaître pour prendre place sous sa boite crânienne.
Des chercheurs du MIT MediaLab vont dans ce sens. Ils ont eux intégré Internet au bout des doigts, pour que la navigation en ligne devienne un de vos sens.
L’outil d’analyse de votre consommation électrique
L’incontournable moteur de recherche Google a présenté il y a 15 jours PowerMeter une nouveauté issue de ses “laboratoires”. Son objectif : lutter contre le réchauffement de la planète en aidant les gens à réduire leur consommation d’électricité.
Seine-Saint-Denis Style
Photographer Amanda Means gave a public talk at the Harvard Museum of Natural History to explain her work.
What do plastic tubes, strings and tin cans have in common? According to Chris and Meredith Thompson, they can all be musical instruments! At the 2008 Cambridge Science Festival, the Thompson twins show an audience of kids how fun the science of sound can be.
Engineers at the Harvard Microrobotics lab use insects as inspiration to build tiny robots that could one day help emergency rescue teams on the field.
Dr. Walter Lewin, an award-winning science educator and physics professor at MIT, demonstrates the key to a successful science lesson.
Interview and video by Nuño Dominguez and Eva Zadeh.Classroom footage provided by MIT.
SuperCool World
Imagine a world where you could defy any laws of physics, from gravitation to electromagnetism. Not a world of superheroes in comic books, but a world where liquids and solids would become super-cool matter.
In this world you would plug magnets under your feet and levitate to go to work. Electrical wires would never get hot and any liquid would squeeze through impossibly small holes. Spinning your glass of wine at a Friday night party would have it mimic a Swiss cheese pattern. Instead of seeing a single whirlpool at the center of your glass, you would observe a multiple of tiny vortices. Public parks would host water fountains spouting upward under the simple action of a light beam. You would have to watch after your coffee to make sure it doesn’t flow out of your cup by itself. And passing through walls to go from one room to another would just be routine.
Erasing Memory
In October of 2006, I interviewed Jonathan Whitlock, a post-doctorate associate at the Picower Institute at that time. On that day, he lighted up my fascination for memory, and its mechanisms in the human brain. At the end of the interview, he launched that he was erasing rats’ memory. And the whole story began.
Scientists at Work
In a small and dark laboratory at the Picower Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a rat sits comfortably in a shine black plastic box. His long white and massive tail impress the visitors. He looks like a hybrid animal coming out of a Star Trek picture. A small metal chip implanted into his minuscule brain delicately deforms his scalp. Through that implant, scientists can record his neurons activity.
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Erasing memorya multimedia project about memory and the science of erasing it.
