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Promoting nuclear fusion
University of DelawareArijit Bose, assistant professor at the University of Delaware, and collaborators have applied powerful magnetic fields to laser-driven implosion, which may provide new ways to steer fusion reactions.
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- Physical Review Letters
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- Sandia National Laboratories
JMIR Formative Research | Competition & Integration of Health Systems Post COVID-19
JMIR PublicationsJMIR Publications published a study titled “Competition and Integration of US Health Systems in the Post-COVID-19 New Normal: Cross-sectional Survey” in JMIR Formative Research, which reported that the smaller the geographical region in which mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity is pursued, the higher the likelihood that monopolistic tendencies will result.
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- JMIR Formative Research
How not to use brain scans in neuroscience
University of PittsburghThe idea that a lone snapshot of a brain can tell you about an individual’s personality or mental health has been the basis of decades of neuroscience studies. That approach was punctured by a paper in Nature earlier this year showing that scientists have massively underestimated how large such studies must be to produce reliable findings. At the center of the research is MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) brain scans. Reaching that conclusion required getting a far broader view of the field than was possible until recently. Along with colleagues at a number of institutions as well as his advisor, Pitt Professor of Psychiatry Beatriz Luna, Tervo-Clemmens combined three recent publicly available studies that together included MRI data from around 50,000 participants.
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- Nature
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- NIH/National Institutes of Health, Andrew Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship, Lynne and Andrew Redleaf Foundation, Kiwanis Neuroscience Research Foundation, Jacobs Foundation
What if we could recycle the energy remaining in discarded batteries? Scientists from NCKU now have an answer
Cactus CommunicationsBatteries find use everywhere. But once discharged, they are discarded. For many years, discarded batteries have been salvaged for valuable metals. However, the residual energy in them have seldom been recovered. In a new study, researchers from Taiwan came up with a way to recover this residual energy from waste batteries. They proposed and tested a hardware prototype which showed promising results. Their findings could open doors to a circular economy for discarded batteries.
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- IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
A new theory in physics claims to solve the mystery of consciousness
Bar-Ilan UniversityResearchers from Bar-Ilan University and the University of Memphis recently published a new physical theory that claims to solve the hard problem of consciousness in a purely physical way. According to the authors, when we change our assumption about consciousness and assume that it is a relativistic phenomenon, the mystery of consciousness naturally dissolves. In the paper the researchers developed a conceptual and mathematical framework to understand consciousness from a relativistic point of view.
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- Frontiers in Psychology
Green hydrogen: Nanostructured nickel silicide shines as a catalyst
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und EnergieElectrical energy from wind or sun can be stored as chemical energy in hydrogen, an excellent fuel and energy carrier. The prerequisite for this, however, is efficient electrolysis of water with inexpensive catalysts. For the oxygen evolution reaction at the anode, nanostructured nickel silicide now promises a significant increase in efficiency. This was demonstrated by a group from the HZB, Technical University of Berlin and the Freie Universität Berlin as part of the CatLab research platform with measurements among others at BESSY II.
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- Advanced Energy Materials
When you Google the word 'tick', you're helping science
University of Copenhagen - Faculty of ScienceKnowledge about the spread of tick-borne diseases is extremely limited and notoriously difficult to acquire. A new study from the University of Copenhagen demonstrates that internet searches just might be the way to keep an eye on ticks and other effects of climate change.
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- Insects
The innovation developed by Lithuanian scientists will allow a more efficient screening of voice pathologies
Kaunas University of TechnologyIn cases of advanced laryngeal cancer, a complex surgery called laryngectomy is performed, when the organ vital for a person’s ability to speak is removed. Striving to improve the patient’s quality of life after laryngectomy, a team of software engineers from KTU, led by researcher Rytis Maskeliūnas, and a team of medics from LSMU, led by prof. Virgilijus Ulozas, conducted a study, during which they searched for pathologies in patients’ voices using artificial intelligence (AI).
New insights into flowering date in Prunus
Nanjing Agricultural University The Academy of ScienceFlowering date (FD) is an important trait in temperate fruit tree species and is highly dependent on the climate conditions of the production area. In sweet cherry (Prunus avium L.), breeding strategies for crop adaptation are aimed at developing early or late blooming cultivars. Investigating the genetic determinism of FD is therefore highly relevant for maintaining cherry production in temperate climates.
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- Horticulture Research