Blink-powered glasses could keep an eye on health
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Tiny sensors harvest energy from blinks, eyebrow raises, jaw movements and even pulsing arteries. Prototype glasses tracked behaviors associated with bruxism, including jaw clenching and teeth tapping. System uses machine learning to recognize six facial activities with 93.8% accuracy. Ultra-low-power design could pave the way for smart glasses that continuously monitor health without constant charging.
Researchers at Gladstone Institutes have uncovered a uniquely counterintuitive class of bacterial defenses. More than just a biological curiosity, decoding these complex systems provides a molecular blueprint that scientists can adapt to engineer more efficient DNA-editing tools for human health and therapies.
BEAGLE is a newly launched research project that aims to transform how Europe monitors biodiversity by closing critical gaps in current systems and turning fragmented data into policy-ready evidence.
Scientists from INRAE, ENAC, ISAE-SUPAERO and ADEME teamed up for a joint study to examine the major transition plans for global civil aviation through 2050. Despite efforts made to date, the research team found that strategies aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions do not go far enough. To move towards sustainability, their results show that in addition to maintaining current measures, there is a need to more broadly reconsider supply- and demand-side policies. Their findings were published in Nature Communications.
Researchers from Hefei University of Technology and the University of Science and Technology of China have proposed a neural architecture search framework that allows an algorithm to automatically look for suitable network structures for EEG-based seizure prediction.
The research paper, A Hybrid Convolutional, Mamba and Spiking Neural Network Architecture Search for Seizure Prediction, published in the journal Cyborg and Bionic Systems on Sep 30, 2026.