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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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There is a growing scientific consensus that the point of ‘peak oil’ passed around 2011 and that viable global oil reserves will be severely depleted from 2030. The long term future of terrestrial surface transport is electrification but the foreseeable future must involve a cost-effective compromise,
Those who have ever experienced a power outage understand the major headaches associated with losing electricity; figuring out how to keep food from spoiling, how to get water, plumbing, lighting, and heating & cooling to name a few.
Want to know what it feels like to be in space, without actually having to go into orbit or travel to the moon?
Space Synapse’s Earth Rider venture allows you to do just this.
In the 21st century, the word "safety" is the most important. There is safety equipment for all types of work, technical or scientific, but the cancer is increasing worldwide, a high percent of the world population dies of cancer and not have any kind of security for it.
Design of underwater cum aerial quadrotor
The basic idea of having a quadrotor that can be used underwater and in air is to improve the operating environment of the quadrotor. The quadrotors can be coated from Ultra-Ever dry to make them superhydrophobic (which would make it effective underwater).
The large numbers of wheeled Mine Protected, Ambush Resistant (MRAP) vehicles being fielded around the world are excellent at protecting their occupants from blast, fragments, and small arms fire.
The loss of vision through retinitis pigmentosa and macular degeneration is a slow torture many have been forced to endure. Retinal prosthesis are beginning to change all that though electrical stimulation. In a healthy human retina,
In many areas of the world, the lack of readily available electrical energy, clean water, and employment opportunities are an interlocking problem that causes social strife, political conflicts, and limits the potential of millions of people. In a vicious circle,
The MonoCab VRT rapid transit system (patents pending) is different than other systems that have been proposed in that passenger and freight services coexist on the same system. It also services both local and long distance demand.
Tsunamis are one of the highest impact natural calamities. In recent years have been developed, specially by Universities Research Centers, studies on the effects of these phenomena on the coasts where they hit and how to mitigate its destructive force, but not a universal tool.
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