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School Solver : A Boon to Students

Education is crucial for the upliftment of society. With more and more access to education, health care, and sanitation the development of society completes. Education is incomplete if students find it hard to understand and enjoy the essence of concepts. That is where educational platforms come into play. Sites like School Solver are at the forefront of revolutionizing education with quality help from their certified experts. So, what is School Solver?? Is it a tutoring platform or is it a question-and-answer platform???   It is the best of both platforms. It is a marketplace for students to choose the best and brightest answers that can not only help them understand the beauty of the subject but also helps them in their curriculum with better grades. I have also used the school solver platform ( USER ID Shravankumar10 ) and it is amazing. School solver offers several subjects that can help students from across the spectrum of knowledge. There are certified experts who work tire...

Machine Learning Systems are similar to human beings

The human mind is a  fascinating machine. But,  what's more, fascinating is its ability to create a machine that can work faster than the human brian,the world is moving quickly and adapting itself to magnificent inventions. The machine learning and the artificial intelligence systems are being developed at a very quick pace. Scientists at MIT have developed a machine learning system that processes sounds like we do. IN fact, scientists believe that these machines can be helpful in understanding the complexities related to the human brain. The idea of neural networks was developed in the 1980's.But the technology wasn't good enough to for implementing the idea. But, now with the technology helps us to implement them. The MIT researchers trained their neural networks to perform 2 auditory tasks, one of them being speech and the other one being music.The task was to identify the word in the middle of the clip.After many examples, the system learne...

3 Keys for successful negotiation

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Negotiations are one of the most important things in the corporate world.Every minute, thousands of dollars are earned by companies thanks to their good negotiation skills.MIT Sloan professors believe that these five rules can lead to better negotiations. Let's get started... Parties/Interests Analyzing the person across the table gives us an edge over our opponent.Firstly consider not just the person with you across the table but, also the whom your opponent can relate to.When you are negotiating on behalf of your company, you should not just consider the CEO, but also COO and others who are crucial to the success of a company. Alternative Options Sometimes, business deals never happen in spite of your great negotiations skills.So, for your company to be successful you need to rethink how to be successful if the deal fails.Alternatives help us in understanding the problems related to the deal and can give us an outlook on how to overcome the problem. Tricks Not ev...

Earliest presence of Hydrogen Detected

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In a recent study done by the astronomers at MIT, they have successfully traced the presence of hydrogen which dates back to 180 million years ago.This experiment also explains that the universe was colder than expected.Scientists believe that this could be the earliest detection of Hydrogen gas. Scientists believe that the state of Hydrogen traced can be only at the time of their initial contact with the first ever formed stars.The stars that formed for the first time should have interacted with these hydrogen gases.The result was that hydrogen could start absorbing background radiation which was instrumental in detecting the Hydrogen gases in the form of radio waves.These findings reveal that the universe might have been  2 times colder than previously expected.The temperature could be as much as 3 kelvins or -454 degrees Fahrenheit. How did they do This?? Scientists detected the presence of Hydrogen gases using EDGES(Experiment to detect global EoR signature).A...

Cellular Bionics: The Interesting Future

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The future is beautiful yet full of intriguing possibilities.The improvement of AI is definitely going to change to change the world.But, what are some other areas where the world will change its course to evolve into something new? Cellular Bionics is definitely going to change the world.It is the science of fusing of living and non -living which promises to change bioengineering and design.It also has several advantages like environmental sensing, self-repair, regeneration, and reproduction, directed evolution and communication.This field is exciting as it will unlock the boundaries between the living and the non-living organisms. How does it help?? This field will be useful in exploring the unseen boundaries of the cells and the model cellular bionic systems.It may have direct practical applications, such as new hybrid materials able to transmit, receive and interpret signals.This will be helpful as the Micromachines created from bionic and electronic components could be ...

How does our brain change when associated with groups

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We are all good people.We have our own set of preferences and we all have our own morals.But, how does our brain react to the things which were once believed to be your moral principles. The very nature that separates human beings from other species is the compassion and other moral principles.But, researchers at MIT think otherwise.MIT researchers have identified that human beings tend to do bad things when we are associated with a particular group.  For example, bullying is something you hate, you may be someone who never bullies anyone.But when you are in a particular group and then you may more incline towards bullying your peers. Groupssssss Human beings live with like-minded ones.That's why we have groups, community, countries.In order to know more about the group dynamics, researchers invited subjects into their lab.The purpose of the research was to hit a button if they see the stuff related to social media.The subjects also saw their personalized stu...

Brain Pattern May underlie Dyslexia

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The inability to interpret the words is called Dyslexia.Children suffering from dyslexia generally tend to have problems while interpreting words.The possibility of having dyslexia is very high.One in five students is known to be suffering from dyslexia.The reason behind the dyslexic students helps us in the better understanding and eventually will help in their treatment. MIT scientists have identified a distinctive brain pattern which tells why dyslexic people have the inability to read and interpret new words.The ability to learn new things is mainly due to the plasticity of the brain.The study on dyslexic brains suggests that there is a decrease in the plasticity of the brain. Plasticity The MIT scientists used MRI scans of young students who have a difficulty in learning.The words were either read or listened with the help of speakers.The MRI scans show distinctive patterns in the brain activity.In nondyslexic people, areas of the brain that are involved in language show...

How do neural networks think??

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Artificial Intelligence is slowly taking over the world with its abilities.They are able to do this with the help of machine learning systems called neural networks.Understanding the working of these systems can help in transforming the way artificial intelligence works.Moreover, we will be able to improve them and build better machines. The researchers from MIT computer and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have shown a new way to know neural network that applies to the system that can text as input and produces a string of symbols as output.They believe that this technique can be used as a form of translator for online natural language processing systems.In fact, this technique can also be used for interpreting black box -text processing systems. The Test The researchers applied this technique to 3 different types of natural language processing systems.The first one was a simple pronunciation while the second one was a set of translators, one human, and the other one was a...

Does Pride help us in Negotiations

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Negotiations are often successful with our ability to win the arguments.The ability to negotiate and make our opponent accepting our demands can lead to many successful meetings.Many companies mainly focus on their ability to make their investors believe in them to survive.So what are the main things that can lead to a successful board meeting? Is it a weak opponent????  or Is it your strong negotiating skills???  In order to find the find underlying assumptions of a successful deal, researchers at MIT have found a way to know this.Professors at MIT Sloan school of management have found a way.The study shows that the mood of each party is responsible for the success of a negotiation.To find more about the things affecting the negotiations, researchers invited undergrad students and employees of a shipping company who undertook repeated negotiations on fuel prices. The results were interesting... The ones who felt pride about their skills in the first round su...

How does communication breakdown occur in Autism

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Autistic children have a problem while communicating with others.But, it is still unclear why this happens.The important question is Are poor social skills are associated with Autism or do autistic children suffer from special linguistic disorders?? Researchers at MIT have found that the children suffering from Autism generally find it difficult to understand some of the grammar.The children suffered from Autism were unable to understand reflexive pronouns.This tells us that the children suffering from Autism indeed may suffer from a biological disorder. In order to find out the reason behind this, they first considered the learning stages in children.Researchers believe that the creation of a timeline will help them in understanding the learning stages of autistic children.Until recently they found that the learning stages of autistic children will be different from that of a typical child.The inability to understand some grammatical constructions has led to better understanding...

Is Autism due to the inability to predict events??

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Our Brain is a complex machine with millions of operations being performed to keep our lives moving.Autism is one of the few disorders that can change the way the brain works.Autism is characterized by various symptoms like hypersensitivity to sound, repetitive behavior and difficulty in interacting with others.MIT scientists have put forth a new study that suggests that Autism is due to inability to predict the events.Scientists say that for an autistic child the world may seem magical due to their inability to predict the events.Based on the reports from the parent's autistic children insisted in a very controlled and predictable environment. Most people have the ability to predict the events based on the previous interactions with the person.But, the autistic children may be unable to predict the event.To find the reason behind this reason, researchers found that components of the brain like basal ganglia, the nucleus accumbens, and cerebellum.These structures were found to b...

Machine Learning can Make You Healthier

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21st century is full of machine lerning and artificial intelligence.Sooner or later, machines will be able to think efficiently and faster than us.Our Brain looks like perfectly coded machine which perceives,processes and transmits information.Machine learning is evolving and now consumer decision with messy data can be handled carefully. How does this help HealthCare?? HealthCare is a major issue with many countries unable to provide basic healthcare.Choosing the right medicine is always a tricky one.Many forums and blogs are flooded with questions from consumers about choosing the right medicine.MIT spinout dMetriics believes that this information is a treasure trove for healthcare.The startup has developed a platform called Decision Making which uses machine learning and language processing. How Does It Work??? Let's imagine that a person wants to know about drug C  and the expression goes in this way "I was prescribed by the doctor to use drug A, but after ...

Smart Lens

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Gone are the days when you had to visit the nearest doctor in order to correct your eyesight.The era of the smartphone has changed the way we live.An MIT spinout  Eyenetra believes that it can change the world by a smart lens technology which is integrated into your phone.According to a report by the WHO, uncorrected refractive errors are the world's second-highest cause of blindness. The startup Eyenetra is working closely with Virtual Realty companies to use their tech as vision correcting technology.The device called Netra is a plastic binocular-like headset.Users can use their smartphone and connect with the startup's app and peer through the headset at the phone's display . The company launched a service called blink which uses the tools of EyeNetra to provide refractive test services in NewYork.The company launched with the name Nayantara in India to do the same.EyeNetra was specifically designed to encounter this problem as most people couldn't afford health...

Galaxies caught in a starbusting merger

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Two galaxies were caught colliding with each other releasing massive amounts of energy and starlight in the early universe.These massive and hyperluminous galaxies are very rare at this period of time.Astronomers speculate that this massive merger may be going on to become one of the massive structures in the universe. The two galaxies named horse and dragon or collectively called ADFS-27 system are 12.7 billion light years away from earth.At this distance, researchers are viewing it as it was when the universe was 1 billion years old. The researchers believe that these galaxies should have been dense part of the universe during this time.The galaxies were spotted by ESA's Herschel Space Observatory and then analyzed by APEX(Atacama Pathfinder Experiment) and ALMA.The research team also included physicists from Imperial College of London.The observations made by ALMA indicates that the ADFS-27 system should have 50 times the amount of star gas milky way had. The Galaxies ...

How to Stay Anonymous Online

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Staying Anonymous online is safe to use when you dont want your presence in Internet to be found.Staying anaonymous online can protect people living under repressive regimes. But many vulnerabilities in some the popular networks like Tor, has raised eyebrows. How does it work?? The importance of system lies in the series of servers called mixnet.The server changes the oreder of information from one point to another.Imagine there are three friends,Bruce,Clark and Stark searching on Google.The information sent be 1,2,3 repectively.The information received by the servers can 1,3,2 or 3,2,1 or in any order.Then the information sent by the second server can modify the pattern of information being sent and can be of order 2,3,1 or 2,1,3 and so on.This is process of alterations keeps on continuing. A bad event for  example which had tracked the origin points of these messages would have no idea of the time and the pattern in which the messages have exited the last server.This kind...

Diabetes And Obesity can cause Cancer

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Diabetes and obesity are both deadly.With the rapid rise in technology and busy schedule, most of us suffer from diabetes or obesity.Global Diabetic Statistics shows that nearly 1 in 11 adults have diabetes.Nearly 12% of global health expenditure or nearly 673 billion dollars is being spent on curing Diabetes.Obesity is scary too.According to the data from NHANES, nearly 2 in 3 adults were considered to be obese. But, now researchers have Imperial College London have found that Diabetes And obesity together account for more cancer deaths.Researchers collected data from nearly 175 countries on 12 different types of cancer.They found that nearly 800,000 cancer deaths were reported. As individual risk factors, obesity is considered twice as much as risky as diabetes.544,300 cases of cancer were reported due to obesity while  280,100 cases were reported due to diabetes. Be Careful Cancers caused due to obesity and diabetes were almost twice as common in women than in men, a...

How does Brain make emotional decisons

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(This picture represents nerve connections, Source: MIT researchers) Did you ever consider your choices when they had both positive and negative outcomes?? We all have to make choices in our life where our options have both sweetness and spice. It's like working in a city far from your family or you still can choose to live with your family at less salary. Our brain is made up of many neural circuits that help in decision making. MIT researchers have identified the neural circuit which is the reason behind such choices and are hoping that their analysis will help in treating psychiatric disorders.Researchers believe that psychiatric disorders which include decision making, depression, and schizophrenia can be treated. The Research In order to know more about the findings, the researchers created a maze for rodents.Rodents would have to choose to have the chocolate they like but it had high lighting effect while other side had a weak chocolate with dim light. The rese...

Psychedelic Drugs to Help The Fight Against Depression

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Feeling lonely?? Feeling suicidal?? Feeling sad and hopelessness?? These might a few signs of depressions that people handle.No wonder that it destroys a person's life.They just take away our happiness and leave us in the world of sadness and hopelessness. But, researchers now at Imperial College of London have found an alternative for depression.The traditional way to tackle depression involves the usage of Anti- depressing drugs that help in suppressing emotions. But the problem with these drugs is that these drugs suppress emotions both happy and sad ones.While depressed ones need happiness to recover, these drugs can sometimes suppress them too.The researchers at Imperial College of London found that usage of psychedelic drugs can help us recover without dampening the brain's activity. Treating Depression Psychedelic Drugs like Magic mushrooms were known to have psilocybin an active compound which helps in alleviating symptoms in patients suffering from the sev...

Presence of Antimatter has been found near earth

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A recent study in Science has confirmed the presence of positrons(Antimatter particles of the electron) near earth.First, it was believed to be due to the collapse of stars far away.But, it seems to be impossible as particles couldn't  have traveled as far as earth.So, now pulsars are being blamed for the antimatter particles. To find how these positrons are present near earth HAWC Observatory is used.This observatory is used for finding the direction and energy of the incoming light in the form of high energy gamma rays.In order to learn more HAWC collaborated with Stanford researchers and they developed a software to combine the data from the Fermi gamma rays space telescope with other instruments. How does it work?? The Fermi telescope works in 2 instruments 1.The Gamma Ray Burst monitor 2.Large Area Telescope(LAT) Even though these instruments exist on the same telescope, bringing the data together had its own set of challenges.As the sensitivity ...

Decoding dreams

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Dreams are the mysterious parts of our life. Brain connects sensory information from the environment to our experiences in our lives resulting in our perceptions, emotions, and memories.Whenever we sleep our mind enters into another world.The brain is known to be active in dream state constantly creating an environment and changing it which are dreams.Sleep helps in restoring our brain health, make our memories stronger and helps in problem-solving. Researchers at MIT, believe that meanings of dreams can be found out by studying the activity of the brain in hippocampus.hippocampus is a place where brain stores memories of specific events.Researchers have begun to decode the activity of the brain when it learns something new.Neuroscientists know that memory is enhanced when we are asleep. But the question that arises is how memory formation takes place when our brain is practically blocked from the practical world? Encrypted Memories Scientists say that memories are hidden w...