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Engineers design artificial-intelligence synapse for “brain-on-a-chip” hardware

Engineers design artificial synapse for “brain-on-a-chip” hardware Design is major stepping stone toward portable artificial-intelligence devices. Scientia — When it comes to processing power, the human brain just can’t be beat. Packed within the squishy, football-sized organ are somew...

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Thermoelectric - Turning heat into electricity

Study finds topological materials could boost the efficiency of thermoelectric devices. Scientia — What if you could run your air conditioner not on conventional electricity, but on the sun’s heat during a warm summer’s day? With advancements in thermoelectric technology, this sustainable s...

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New peptide could fight many cancers

New peptide could fight many cancers Drug that targets a key cancer protein could combat leukemia and other types of cancer. Scientia — MIT biologists have designed a new peptide that can disrupt a key protein that many types of cancers, including some forms of lymphoma, leukemia, and...

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Would Gender Differences Exist if we Treated People the same?

Would gender differences exist if we treated all people the same from birth? Joe Herbert, Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience, explores what we mean by ‘gender identity’ and asks whether we should insist on an equal gender distribution across occupations and activities. Scientia...

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Physics Theory Challenges Einstein's Physics

Theory that challenges Einstein’s physics could soon be put to the test Scientia — Scientists behind a theory that the speed of light is variable and not constant as Einstein suggested; have made a prediction that could be tested. Einstein observed that the speed of light remains the...

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Quantum Computers More Powerful than Previously Realized

Relatively simple quantum computers could be much more powerful than previously realized. Scientia — Quantum computers promise huge speedups on some computational problems because they harness a strange physical property called entanglement, in which the physical state of one tiny particle...

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Protoplanetary Disk Around Young Star Shows Spiral

Protoplanetary Disk Around a Young Star Exhibits Spiral Structure Scientia — Astronomers have found a distinct structure involving spiral arms in the reservoir of gas and dust disk surrounding the young star Elias 2-27. While spiral features have been observed on the surfaces of...

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Pinpoint laser heating creates magnetic nanotextures

Pinpoint laser heating creates a maelstrom of magnetic nanotextures Scientia — A simulation study by researchers from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science has demonstrated the feasibility of using lasers to create and manipulate nanoscale magnetic vortices. The ability to create...

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Electric eel delivers a Shock as powerful as a Taser

Electric eel delivers a Taser-like shocks Scientia –The electric eel – the scaleless Amazonian fish that can deliver an electrical jolt strong enough to knock down a full-grown horse – possesses an electroshock system uncannily similar to a Taser. That is the conclusion of a...

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Origami and kirigami applied to metamaterials

Topological origami and kirigami techniques applied experimentally to metamaterials Scientia — A team of researchers with members from Universiteit Leiden in the Netherlands, Cornell University and the University of Massachusetts has developed for the first time metamaterials that are...

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Star Escapes Black Hole with Minor Damage

Star Escapes Black Hole with Minor Damage Scientia — Astronomers have gotten the closest look yet at what happens when a black hole takes a bite out of a star—and the star lives to tell the tale. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push(); We may think of black holes as s...

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Pinpointing Brain Circuit That can Keep Fear at Bay

Pinpointing a brain circuit that can keep fear at bay – Study suggests path to prolonging treatment effectiveness for phobias or post-traumatic stress disorder. Scientia — People who are too frightened of flying to board an airplane, or fear spiders so much they cannot venture into...

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Visible light based Imaging for Medical Devices

Algorithm could enable visible-light-based imaging for medical devices, autonomous vehicles – System accounts for the deflection of light particles passing through animal tissue or fog. Scientia — MIT researchers have developed a technique for recovering visual information from light...

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Graphene Nanoribbons for Healing Spinal Injuries

Graphene nanoribbons show promise for healing spinal injuries Scientia — The combination of graphene nanoribbons made with a process developed at Rice University and a common polymer could someday be of critical importance to healing damaged spinal cords in people, according to Rice...

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Astronomers Discover Five New Neptune Trojans

Astronomers discover five new Neptune trojans Scientia — An international team of astronomers led by Hsing-Wen Lin of the National Central University in Taiwan has detected five new so-called “Neptune trojans” – minor bodies sharing the same orbit as the planet Neptune. The d...

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Parallel Computing for Faster Computing

Faster parallel computing – New programming language delivers fourfold speedups on problems common in the age of big data. Researchers have designed a new programming language that lets application developers manage memory more efficiently in programs that deal with scattered data points...

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Universe Expansion and the Neglected Riddle

Neglected Riddle of the Universe Expansion Scientia — One of the most remarkable successes of astrophysics in the last century was its discovery that the age of the universe expansion as measured by its oldest stars was about the same as the age estimated in an entirely different way, from...