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#Verenigde Staten
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Frozen pig kidneys work again after rewarming, one even after more than a year
Researchers at the University of Minnesota stored pig kidneys at −150 °C and then got them working again: they made urine, one even after more than a year in the freezer. There was still some damage. The next step is longer trials in pigs.
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Northwestern builds glasses whose sensors generate their signal from facial movements
Researchers at Northwestern University built GlassTENG: glasses with sensors that generate their signal from facial movements. They recognise the pulse, firm blinking and jaw movements, and the readout electronics use almost no power. A battery-free version is the next step.
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US project builds digital twin of SPARC fusion reactor to predict plasma within 20 minutes
Commonwealth Fusion Systems is building a digital twin of the SPARC fusion reactor with four American national laboratories, NVIDIA and Google DeepMind. The goal: predict plasma behaviour in less than 20 minutes, between two experiments. That is still an ambition, not a result.
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Lab-grown human brain tissue learns to balance a virtual pole with an AI coach
At a meeting in Silicon Valley, a team from UC Santa Cruz showed how cultured human brain tissue learns a classic control task: keeping a pole upright on a cart. An AI algorithm acts as the coach. A volunteer with a keyboard could barely keep up with the tissue.
