New textile could keep you cool in the heat, warm in the cold
Credit: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c02300 Imagine a single garment that could adapt to changing weather conditions, keeping its wearer cool in...
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How expectations influence learning
Credit: RUB, Marquard During learning, the brain is a prediction engine that continually makes theories about our environment and accurately registers whether an assumption is...
Additions to resource industry underwater robots can boost ocean discoveries
Remotely operated vehicles used by the oil and gas sector can be enhanced to gather more scientific data, researchers sayCredit: AIMS Underwater robots are regularly...
Bees point to new evolutionary answers
Climate change snapshot in Fijian highlandsCredit: Courtesy James Dorey Evolutionary biology aims to explain how new species arise and evolve to occupy myriad niches -...
NASA finds Tropical Storm Jeruto develop in Southern Indian Ocean
Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) The latest tropical cyclone to develop in the Southern Indian Ocean is no threat...
Milk pioneers: East African herders consumed milk 5,000 years ago
Credit: Oliver Rudd When you pour a bowl of cereal, you probably aren't considering how humans came to enjoy milk in the first place. But...
T2K results restrict possible values of neutrino CP phase
Published in Nature, the results are a major step forward in the study of difference between matter and antimatterCredit: The T2K Collaboration The T2K Collaboration...
Hot qubits break one of the biggest constraints to practical quantum computers
Credit: Picture: UNSW Sydney Most quantum computers being developed around the world will only work at fractions of a degree above absolute zero. That requires...
Immigrant Japan: understanding modern Japan through the lives and minds of migrants
In a new book, interviews of over 200 migrants in Japan give a glimpse of what life is like for immigrants in the Japanese societyCredit:...
Shedding light on dark traps
Scientists pinpoint origin of defects that sap potential of next gen solar techCredit: OIST/Togo A multi-institutional collaboration, co-led by scientists at the University of Cambridge...
Mouse study shows ‘chaperone protein’ protects against autoimmune diseases
Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine Like a parent of teenagers at a party, Mother Nature depends on chaperones to keep one of her charges, the immune...
Future dynamics prediction from short-term time series by anticipated learning machine
(a) The general principle of Anticipated Learning Machine (ALM). The observed attractor, a delay attractor and sampled nondelay attractors are all topologically conjugate with each...
Researchers restore sight in mice by turning skin cells into light-sensing eye cells
NIH-funded study offers new path to modeling eye disease, advancing therapiesCredit: Sai Chavala Researchers have discovered a technique for directly reprogramming skin cells into light-sensing...
N-doped porous carbon supported Fe single atom catalysts for highly efficient ORR
Credit: ©Science China Press Noble metals (e.g., platinum) are often used as catalysts in the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) of fuel cell cathodes. However, the...
Studying pterosaurs and other fossil flyers to better engineer manmade flight
Credit: Mark Witton Pterosaurs were the largest animals ever to fly. They soared the skies for 160 million years--much longer than any species of modern...
