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A custom-built hardware device plans to help artificial intelligence be more energy efficient. Credit: University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Energy-Efficient AI: New Hardware Could Slash Computing Power Needs by 1000x

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Technology

Researchers using non-invasive neuromodulation, a technique that has shown promising results in reducing symptoms of depression, Alzheimer’s disease, and Parkinson’s disease.

Breakthrough in Brain Stimulation: Scientists Discover New Way to Modulate Behavior

Categories Brain & Behavior, Technology

Healthy foods high in fiber

even more reasons to eat your fiber

Categories Health

University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers have developed a groundbreaking new diagnostic technique that will allow for faster and more accurate detection of neurodegenerative diseases that affect humans, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, and similar diseases that affect animals, such as chronic wasting disease (CWD) and mad cow disease.

Faster, More Accurate Tests for Neurodegenerative Diseases in Nano-QuIC

Categories Brain & Behavior, Health

Image of Group A streptococcus bacteria. Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health

CDC issues alert on invasive group A strep infections in kids

Categories Health

University of Minnesota Twin Cities Professor Bharat Jalan is co-leading a team that has developed a new method for making nano-membranes of “smart” materials, which will allow scientists to harness their unique properties for use in devices such as sensors and flexible electronics.

New process to create freestanding membranes of ‘smart’ materials

Categories Technology

Medical illustration of female body and the vagus nerve

Mega effort to study vagus nerve stimulation

Categories Brain & Behavior, Health

Genetics may also help explain why some dogs perform better than others on social tasks such as following pointing gestures.

Similar medications cost more for humans compared to pets

Categories Health, Life & Non-humans, Social Sciences

A University of Minnesota Twin Cities-led team has found that electrical stimulation of the body combined with sound activates the brain’s somatosensory cortex, increasing the potential for using the technique to treat chronic pain and other sensory disorders.

Sound plus electrical body stimulation has potential to treat chronic pain

Categories Brain & Behavior, Health, Physics & Mathematics

Poop transplants cost-effective for recurrent C difficile

Categories Health

Robot arm on table

Technology lets amputees control robotic arm with their mind

Categories Brain & Behavior, Health, Technology

Blood pressure cuff and pills

Blood pressure medications impact brain function — in a good way

Categories Brain & Behavior, Health

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