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Spinal cord injury affects 17,000 Americans and 700,000 people worldwide each year. A research team at NeuroPair, Inc. won the Grand Prize in the 2023 Create the Future Design Contest for a revolutionary approach to spinal cord repair. In this Here’s an Idea podcast episode, Dr. Johannes Dapprich, NeuroPair’s CEO and founder, discusses their groundbreaking approach that addresses a critical need in the medical field, offering a fast and minimally invasive solution to a long-standing problem.
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6G will be much faster than 5G and will use submillimeter waves. On one hand, the higher frequency will support broader bandwidth. On the other hand, because of atmospheric absorption, the range will be shortened and hence in order to have adequate coverage the density of cells will have to be increased significantly.
Horizontal K type configuration is new type of configuration designed for an internal combustion engine.
In this configuration, 4 cylinders are present per crankpin in the shape of "K" with its vertical side parallel to the ground. The positioning of cylinders is based on the multi-body simulation results.
The novelty with this configuration is,
Far in the depths of Earth’s oceans, a vary diversity of life call the abyss home. Often times life below can be more alien to us on the surface than the ones we imagine amongst the cosmos, but nonetheless these deep dwellers have adapted to survive and thrive in their home environment. To better explore and understand the deep,
It's a coupe car that was inspired by a shark. I did its blueprints in Autodesk AutoCAD 2018, and then I modeled its exterior and interior parts in Autodesk Inventor Professional 2018 in 1/30 scale. It took me over 2 years to finish it completely in both software packages. I projected it to be a production coupe car,
In the fight against cardiovascular (CV) diseases, scientists focus on the identification of individuals at a higher risk of developing CV events within 10 years, in order to concentrate preventive efforts on these subjects. Current traditional methods for risk prediction based on conventional risk factors have limitations and there is a need to identify more effective risk stratification algorithms.
The fuelless generator just as the name implies is a power generating system that doesn’t require any kind of fuel for its operation. The fuelless generator technology has been in existence for some time now but there hasn’t been known large scale application of this technology. However,
CryoRAC is a proposed design for an innovative air conditioning system that works on radiative cooling utilizing cryogenic liquids. The radiation mode of heat transfer is an easier method of cooling compared to convection mode as in the traditional air conditioner. Radiative cooling provides preferential cooling for hotter objects. In comfort air conditioning,
1 ton of coated magazine paper consumes over 15 trees and 1 ream of paper (which is 500 sheets), and will use 5% of a tree to be manufactured. When you consider how many magazines, newspapers and office papers are used or printed and distributed across the world, it is difficult to visualize the number of trees being used.
Aluminum is the most cost-effective conductor of electricity available. It can carry electrical current for less than 15% the cost of carrying the same current, using copper. However,
Extending broadband internet services, especially to rural areas, is growing in demand.
One approach to addressing this demand is to extend cellular networks by erecting new cell towers in rural areas.
Yet towers, wind turbine towers, are being erected, at ever increasing rates, in rural and near offshore areas as wind farms are planted.
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