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Writer Fuel: Can This AI Headset Induce Lucid Dreams

The Halo

A tech startup is building a headband that it claims can induce stabilized lucid dreaming in a wearer — letting them take control of their own dreamscapes. Prophetic described how its device, called “the Halo,” works in a post on X on Jan. 25. The headband will use an artificial intelligence (AI) platform dubbed “Morpheus-1” … Read more

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Writer Fuel: Scientists Use “Ice Printing” to Create Scaffold for Constructing Blood Vessels

A 3D-printed ice template (left) was used a scaffolding to later grow cells (right) in a blood vessel-like structure. (Image credit: Image courtesy of Feimo Yang.)

Scientists are working to build blood vessels from human cells using tiny ice sculptures — these frigid 3D forms twist and branch like real arteries and can be used as temporary scaffolds that later get melted away, to be replaced by living cells. The researchers demonstrated the first step of this blood-vessel-building process in a … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Venero Armanno

Venero Armano

It’s the Daily LFS – Lim Fic Spotlight from the Liminal Fiction website. Today: Venero Armanno Horror Venero Armanno (“Veny”) was born in Brisbane, Queensland, of parents who migrated from Sicily to Australia in the early 1950s. Veny’s father was a self-employed bricklayer; for many years his mother worked as a seamstress for Freemans, a … Read more

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Review: Flames of Attrition – Vanessa MacLaren-Wray

Flames of Attrition - Vanessa Maclaren-Wray - The Unremembered King

Genre: Fantasy, Portal Fantasy, Sci-Fantasy Reviewer: Scott Get It On Amazon | Publisher | Kobo| Apple Books | Nook | Smashwords | Google Play About The Book The commander writes strategy in ink, the captain in orders, the trooper in blood. – Teachings of the Jeskan Guard The nation of Jeska stands at a crossroads. … Read more

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Writer Fuel: New Prosthetics Allow Amputees to Feel Temperatures, Human Touch

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For the first time, scientists enabled an amputee to feel temperature via his prosthetic hand, crossing what the researchers say is one of the final hurdles in being able to imbue prosthetics with the full spectrum of senses available in a human limb. The team achieved this feat by implanting a small device in the … Read more

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Author Spotlight: H.E. Wilburson

H.E. Wilburson

It’s the Daily LFS – Lim Fic Spotlight from the Liminal Fiction website. Today: H.E. Wilburson Sci-Fi H.E. Wilburson is an award-winning British author and composer, with accolades for the writing and music for The Martian Diaries series – his audio sequel to The War Of The Worlds. Having long been drawn to the H.G. … Read more

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Writer Fuel: New Universal Memory Chips Promise Energy Efficiency and Much Faster Speeds

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Universal computer memory that’s both super-fast and energy efficient is one step closer to reality after scientists built an “extremely” stable prototype using a completely new material. The new material, dubbed “GST467,” which contains germanium, antimony and terbium, was used as one repeating layer in a stacked-layer structure, known as a superlattice, and could pave … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Clara Ward

Clara Ward

It’s the Daily LFS – Lim Fic Spotlight from the Liminal Fiction website. Today: Clara Ward Fantasy, Sci-Fi Clara Ward lives in Silicon Valley on the border between reality and speculative fiction. Their latest novel, Be the Sea, features a near-future ocean voyage, chosen family, and sea creature perspectives, while delving into our oceans, our … Read more

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Author Spotlight: D.M. Rasch

D.M. Rasch

It’s the Daily LFS – Lim Fic Spotlight from the Liminal Fiction website. Today: D.M. Rasch Sci-Fi D.M. Rasch writes feminist speculative fiction for LGBTQ+ young adults and adults, exploring where the social and political meet the personal. Her characters are often found doing their best in worlds that challenge them to become their best … Read more

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Writer Fuel: Scientists Print Human Brain Tissue. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

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For the first time, scientists have generated functional human brain tissue using a 3D printer. Scientists printed the tissue to be less than 0.01 inch (0.02 centimeter) thick, and it contains both nerve cells and supporting cells called glia. All of these cells can communicate with one another and form networks, as they would in … Read more