Not exact matches
The new set - up differs from
other types of thin - metal sensors currently in use, the
authors note, because it
detects molecules directly instead of measuring indirect changes caused
by the presence of a chemical.
«This FRB, like
others detected, is thought to originate from outside of Earth's own Milky Way galaxy, which means their signal has travelled over many hundreds of millions of light years, through a medium that — while invisible to our eyes — can be turbulent and affected
by magnetic fields,» Ryan Shannon from Australia's ICRAR - Curtin University, the co-lead
author of a study detailing the observation, said in a statement.
«The fact that we were able to
detect genetic risk factors on this massive scale shows that schizophrenia can be tackled
by the same approaches that have already transformed our understanding of
other diseases,» said the paper's senior
author Michael O'Donovan, deputy director of the MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics at Cardiff University School of Medicine.
Tango is a technology platform developed and
authored by Google that uses computer vision to enable mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, to
detect their position relative to the world around them without using GPS or
other external signals.
The
author, an engineering manager at Facebook named Ben Chen, wrote that it was not merely possible to
detect that two smartphones were in the same place at the same time, but that
by comparing the accelerometer and gyroscope readings of each phone, the data could identify when people were facing each
other or walking together.