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Brain science start-up Neuroelectrics uses electricity and a headcap to reduce seizures in patients with epilepsy. Now it needs FDA approval
High up in the hills of Barcelona, brain science start-up Neuroelectrics is developing therapies that it says will improve the lives of people living with brain disease. The group manufactures around 400 devices, which it ships to 75 different countries worldwide each year. Its main product is a headcap, which monitors the brain’s electrical activity […]
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Inside Neuroelectrics, the brain science start-up hoping to curb epilepsy and depression
The following is a transcript of the video. High up in the hills of the Catalan capital, Neuroelectrics is developing therapies that it says will improve the lives of people living with brain disease. The group manufactures around 400 devices which it ships to 75 different countries worldwide each year. Everything from research to production […]
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Boeing Starliner docks with ISS, delivering its first NASA crew to space station
Boeing’s Starliner capsule is seen while approaching the International Space Station with two NASA astronauts on board on June 6, 2024. NASA TV Fixing the propulsion problem NASA flight controllers called off a previously scheduled approach to resolve issues with Starliner’s propulsion system. Starliner has 28 jets, known as its reaction control system, or RCS, […]
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SpaceX’s Starship rocket completes test flight for the first time, successfully splashes down
SpaceX’s Starship launches its fourth flight test from the company’s Boca Chica launchpad, designed to eventually send astronauts to the moon and beyond, near Brownsville, Texas, U.S. , in this handout picture obtained on June 6, 2024. Spacex | Via Reuters SpaceX completed a test flight of its Starship rocket for the first time on […]
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Scientists develop ultra-thin battery for smart contact lenses that could be charged by tears
Scientist Lee Seok Woo said a scene from a “Mission Impossible” movie inspired his latest invention: batteries for smart contact lenses. In the fourth film of the series, an agent wears contact lenses capable of facial recognition and eye tracking. Lee wanted to make that lens a reality. “I was thinking, ‘How can I work […]
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Boeing Starliner launches for the first time carrying NASA astronauts to the ISS
Boeing launched its first Starliner flight with astronauts on Wednesday, beginning a crucial final flight test of the long-delayed spacecraft. The launch took off at 10:52 a.m. ET from Cape Canaveral, Florida, with two NASA astronauts aboard. Starliner is carried by a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket and is bound for the International Space […]
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Boeing and NASA call off Starliner crew launch minutes before liftoff
[The livestream started at 8:15 a.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see the video player above.] Boeing‘s first Starliner flight with astronauts on board was called off in the final minutes on Saturday. The cause of the launch delay was not immediately announced. The company was targeting a launch on June […]
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The following generation of the ‘Internet of Bodies’ could meld tech and human bodies together
The upcoming era of the “Online of Bodies,” or IOB, could carry technological gadgets and the human overall body closer together than at any time prior to. Tutorial and author Andrea M. Matwyshyn, who coined the expression in 2016, describes it as “a community of human bodies whose integrity and functionality rely at the very […]
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AST SpaceMobile partners with Verizon, adding to AT&T coverage deal for satellite internet to phones
The company’s Block 1 BlueBird satellites undergoing thermal vacuum testing in preparation for launch. AST SpaceMobile Satellite-to-phones service provider AST SpaceMobile announced a partnership with Verizon on Wednesday, adding to the company’s recent deal with AT&T to provide remote coverage across the United States. AST SpaceMobile is building satellites to provide broadband service to unmodified […]
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Boeing, NASA say Starliner astronaut launch will move forward despite spacecraft helium leak
In this handout provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft aboard is seen illuminated by spotlights on the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 ahead of the NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test on May 4, 2024 at Cape Canaveral Space […]
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