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Robot learns to play with Lego by watching human teachers
from New Scientist - News
(2016-10-27 3:00)
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Some tasks are too hard for us to program? so we're teaching robots by having them observe us instead
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Smart lab rats filmed using hooked tools to get chocolate cereal
from New Scientist - News
(2016-10-27 3:00)
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Lock up your cereal. Rats can learn to use tools, such as hooked rakes, to reach food, and they can even choose the right tool for the job
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Lying feels bad at first but our brains soon adapt to deceiving
from New Scientist - News
(2016-10-27 3:00)
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Scans reveal that as we tell more and more fibs, our brains become desensitised to lying, allowing dishonesty to snowball
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Paralysed people inhabit distant robot bodies with thought alone
from New Scientist - News
(2016-10-27 3:00)
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Using a head-up display and a cap that reads brain activity, for the first time three people with spinal injury have controlled a robot and seen what it sees
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How to save ourselves from the invisible gas choking us to death
from New Scientist - News
(2016-10-27 3:00)
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Cities are battling to meet legal standards for air pollution, but even that isn't enough to make air safe, says Michael Le Page
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One Per Cent
from New Scientist - News
(2016-10-27 3:00)
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The next generation of Post-it notes, bitcoin bets on the US election, and souping up your car to take you for a spin
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Playing Grand Theft Auto can teach autonomous cars how to drive
from New Scientist - News
(2016-10-27 3:00)
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Getting computers to recognise other cars is surprisingly difficult? but super-realistic video games can help train them up
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Smart camera system checks patients’vital signs from afar
from New Scientist - News
(2016-10-27 3:00)
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Software monitors heart rate, breathing and blood oxygen without a single sensor touching the body? useful for police cells as well as hospital wards
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Superfast therapy cracks multidrug-resistant tuberculosis
from New Scientist - News
(2016-10-27 2:00)
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A new drug regime cures 82 per cent of people with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis? and in less than half the time taken by current treatments
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HIV jumped to the US in 1970?10 years before it was spotted
from New Scientist - News
(2016-10-27 2:00)
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The HIV virus was in the US in the 1970s before it triggered the?nation's AIDS epidemic of the 1980s, a new genetic study has found
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