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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:59:39 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Tongue Drive Technology
Researchers have developed an experimental tongue-based system that may allow individuals with debilitating disabilities to control wheelchairs, computers and other devices with relative ease and no sophistication.
Because the tongue is directly connected to the brain via cranial nerves, it usually remains mobile when other body parts lose function to disease or accidents. That mobility underlies the new system, which may one day provide greater flexibility and simplicity to individuals who ...
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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:03:21 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: NSF Awards Grant to Track 'Space Weather' in Earth's Near-Space Environment
NSF Awards Grant to Track 'Space Weather' in Earth's Near-Space Environment
Global and real-time "space weather" observations of near-Earth space--and the solar storms that can knock out electric power grids--is about to happen for the first time, thanks to funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Scientists at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., have been awarded an NSF grant to perform an experiment called the Active Magnetosphere and Planetary Electrodynamics Response Experiment ...
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