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October 26, 2017

Purdue professor receives grant to study fragile X syndrome

Alexander Chubykin, an assistant professor of biological sciences at Purdue University, has been awarded a $1.9 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to study impaired visual learning caused by fragile X syndrome, the most common inherited form of autism.

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October 23, 2017

Innovative material for soft sensor could bring new tactile tech

A new type of soft and stretchable sensor could find uses in applications ranging from athletics and health monitoring to prosthetics and virtual reality.

The technology, called iSoft, is capable of sensing in real-time, or without delay, and can perform “multimodal” sensing, or sensing a variety of stimuli such as continuous contact and stretching in all directions.

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October 23, 2017

Researchers demonstrate ‘mind-reading’ brain-decoding tech

Researchers have demonstrated how to decode what the human brain is seeing by using artificial intelligence to interpret fMRI scans from people watching videos, representing a sort of mind-reading technology.

The advance could aid efforts to improve artificial intelligence and lead to new insights into brain function.

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October 12, 2017

Purdue faculty, Indiana housing pair up to research energy use

Residents in several Indiana communities are part of new Purdue research determining how households consume energy. Panagiota Karava, an associate professor of civil engineering in the Lyles School of Civil Engineering, is heading up the four-year research project, which involves faculty from eight Purdue schools and departments.

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October 11, 2017

Purdue innovation could provide inexpensive, clean way for US to enter $4 billion market to recover rare earth elements

New efficient and inexpensive technologies being developed at Purdue University could allow the extraction of rare earth elements, critical components of many electronics and green products, from waste coal ash. This innovation could enable the U.S. to enter into the $4 billion rare earth element production market while recycling coal ash in an environmentally friendly way. The value of the products that require rare earth metals is valued at more than $4 trillion per year.

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