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Over his career, Vincent Favre-Nicolin, a UGA faculty member who conducts research at ESRF, has developed open-source software applications that are widely used by crystallographers. L’Association française de cristallographie, France’s learned society for crystallographers, will give Vincent its biannual André-Guinier Award on July 2.   The Fox software Vincent developed in the 2000s, which uses powder […] >>

CEA-Leti is coordinating the European MeM-Scales project, which kicked off in early April. The focus? Neuromorphic chips capable of learning on several time scales. These brain-inspired chips can learn simultaneously at millisecond intervals (axon transmission), at second intervals (spoken language), or at much longer intervals (motor skills). The nine-partner project consortium is working on autonomous […] >>

Magnetoencephalography (MEG), a functional brain imaging technique, uses SQUIDs cooled to 4 K and placed at a certain distance from the patient’s cranium. Alternatively, alkaline-based sensors heated to 150 °C and also placed at a certain distance from the patient, are used. CEA-Leti has come up with a third way: sensors that use helium-4 gas excited […] >>

Exposing degenerating neurons to near infrared light could slow the progression of Parkinson’s disease. A preclinical trial of this approach in 2016 produced excellent results. The first patient in a new clinical trial was implanted with the neuron-illuminating device at Clinatec at the end of March. Parkinson’s disease affects 6.5 million people worldwide. Although treatments—like […] >>

One of the main IoT communication protocols, narrowband IoT, could, with a few minor tweaks, be used for satellite links. A recent study by CEA-Leti for CNES, France’s national center for space studies, leveraged simulation techniques to show that it is possible for a constellation of satellites orbiting a few hundred kilometers above the Earth […] >>