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Autism Fast Facts Here is a look at autism. ASD can be found among all races, ethnicities and socioeconomic groups. Diagnosis There is no definitive medical test to diagnose autism. Instead, the disorder is diagnosed by observing a child’s development. According to the CDC, signs of autism may include deficits in social communication and interaction in a variety of contexts, difficulty engaging in back-and-forth conversation and an absence of interest in forming friendships with peers. Vaccin...

How shrinking planets might explain missing planets Posted by May 27, 2021 Artist’s concept of Gliese 1214b, a mini-Neptune and possible shrinking planet. Worlds like this may sometimes lose their thick atmospheres and literally decrease in size, becoming super-Earths. Shrinking planets might help explain a mystery gap in exoplanet sizes. Image via NASA/ ESA/ G. Bacon (STScI)/ L. Kreidberg & J. Bean (U. Chicago)/ H. Knutson (Caltech)/ AAS Nova. Can planets shrink? New research from the Flati...

Rett Syndrome Research Trust Establishes Translational Medicine Advisory Board Share Article Four nationally prominent leaders in medical research join the board to advance progress toward a cure for Rett Syndrome “It is an honor to work with such distinguished colleagues on this advisory board; it is also a productive and very meaningful endeavor because of the intense commitment and unusually strong scientific sophistication of the Rett Syndrome Research Trust’s leadership,” said Dr. Hy...

Quanta Magazine Wins Webby Peoples Voice Award for Best Science Website News provided by Share this article NEW YORK, May 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --  Quanta Magazine is the winner of the 2021 Webby Peoples Voice Award for the best website and mobile site in the science category. The award, presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences and decided by public vote, is one of the most coveted prizes in the digital space. "Im thrilled and deeply touched that my extraordinary s...

Ideas, Inventions And Innovations Mindwriting: Device Enables Paralyzed People to Text by Thought Artificial intelligence, interpreting data from a device placed at the brain’s surface, enables people who are paralyzed or have severely impaired limb movement to communicate by text. Call it “mindwriting.” The combination of mental effort and state-of-the-art technology have allowed a man with immobilized limbs to communicate by text at speeds rivaling those achieved by his able-bodied ...

Call it "mindwriting." The combination of mental effort and state-of-the-art technology have allowed a man with immobilized limbs to communicate by text at speeds rivaling those achieved by his able-bodied peers texting on a smartphone. Stanford University investigators have coupled artificial-intelligence software with a device, called a brain-computer interface, implanted in the brain of a man with full-body paralysis. The software was able to decode information from the BCI to quickly conve...

Alex Kwan Both alumni are important additions to the College of Engineering, which is growing its roster of interdisciplinary faculty who contribute to university-level centers and initiatives. Cha is a particularly strategic fit, with research interests including atomic understanding of material formation and the design of new materials with applications for quantum computing and information processing. “Judy is a deep thinker who tackles big questions in materials science,” said Lara Estr...

by Stephanie Lopez — April 30, 2021 . DURHAM – A digital app successfully detected one of the telltale characteristics of autism in young children, suggesting the technology could one day become an inexpensive and scalable early screening tool, researchers at Duke University report. The research team created the app to assess the eye gaze patterns of children while they watched short, strategically designed movies on an iPhone or iPad, then applied computer vision and machine learning to de...

A new theory for what’s happening in the brain when something looks familiar This novel concept from the lab of neuroscientist Nicole Rust brings the field one step closer to understanding how memory functions. Long-term, it could have implications for treating memory-impairing diseases like Alzheimer’s. How can the brain distinguish between something new and something familiar? Research from the Visual Memory Lab led by Nicole Rust has a new th...

The technology could one day become an inexpensive and scalable early screening tool, the research suggests. Researchers created the app to assess the eye gaze patterns of children while they watched short, strategically designed movies on an iPhone or iPad, then applied computer vision and machine learning to determine whether the child looked more often at the human in the video, or objects. “We know that babies who have autism pay attention to the environment differently and are not paying...