I ain’t afraid of no ghosts: people with mind-blindness not so easily spooked
The link between mental imagery and emotions may be closer than we thoughtCredit: Unsplash People with aphantasia - that is, the inability to visualise mental...
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IceCube detection of a high-energy particle proves 60-year-old theory
The South Pole neutrino detector saw a Glashow resonance event, a phenomenon predicted by Nobel laureate physicist Sheldon Glashow in 1960 where an electron antineutrino...
Bird call app downloaded one million times worldwide — now available for IOS devices
Credit: Sven Gleisberg "Great app with a certain addictiveness," writes a user in the Google Play Store about BirdNET. The app was developed by Chemnitz...
Kids’ blood pressure measurements different between arms, potential for misdiagnosis
Credit: Marcelo Leal Blood pressure measurements in children and adolescents should be taken from both arms after new research showed substantial differences could be seen...
Finding quvigints in a quantum treasure map
Credit: Markus Rambach Researchers have struck quantum gold--and created a new word--by enlisting machine learning to efficiently navigate a 20-dimensional quantum treasure map. Physicist Dr...
Scientists report gastrointestinal manifestations and mechanisms of COVID-19
Credit: GUO Meng Recently, Prof. ZHU Shu from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of CAS and Prof. Richard A. Flavell from Yale...
Are ‘bacterial probiotics’ a game-changer for the biofuels industry?
Credit: The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability In a study recently published in Nature Communications, scientists from The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability...
A CNIO team discovers how telomere involvement in tumor generation is regulated
The results show for the first time that telomeres respond to external signals that induce cell proliferation and that blocking these signals can interfere with...
Learning to help the adaptive immune system
Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan - Scientists from the Institute of Industrial Science at The University of Tokyo demonstrated...
The secret of catalysts that increase fuel cell efficiency
Credit: POSTECH Fuel cells, which are attracting attention as an eco-friendly energy source, obtain electricity and heat simultaneously through the reverse reaction of water electrolysis....
A safer MRI contrast agent for high-resolution 3D microvascular imaging
The new contrast agent offers a vast improvement over traditional gadolinium-based productsCredit: Institute for Basic Science Heart attack and stroke are the first and second...
Sonic Dirac points and the transition towards Weyl points
Credit: by Boyang Xie, Hui Liu, Hua Cheng, Zhengyou Liu, Jianguo Tian, and Shuqi Chen Recently, the three-dimensional (3D) Dirac points and 3D Dirac semimetals...
Organ-on-chip project receives huge grant to make the leap from lab to fab
NWO Perspective grant of 4.8 million euros for multidisciplinary consortium, led by TU/e professor Jaap den Toonder to develop much-needed universal standard for the pharmaceutical...
New compound targets enzyme linked to autoimmune disorders, severe COVID-19
Credit: NTU Singapore When the body detects a pathogen, such as bacteria or viruses, it mounts an immune system response to fight this invader. In...
A containment laboratory 3 propels research on COVID-19 and other pathogens at INRS
Credit: Simon Desbiens The Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) inaugurates today its new Level 3 laboratory (CL3), which propels research on numerous pathogens....
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