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Yale scientists make a borophene breakthrough
A flake just one atom thick has provided scientists at Yale with new insight into a promising material for the next generation of high-speed electronics.
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When starting school, younger children are more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD
A Harvard study has found that children born in August in states with a Sept. 1 cutoff birth date for school enrollment have a 30 percent higher risk for ADHD diagnosis than peers born in September, which may reflect overdiagnosis.
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AWS Ground Station – Ingest and Process Data from Orbiting Satellites
Did you know that there are currently thousands of satellites orbiting the Earth? I certainly did not, and would have guessed a few hundred at most. Today, high school and college students design, fabricate, and launch nano-, pico-, and even femto-satellites such as CubeSats, PocketQubes, and SunCubes. On the…
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Successful second round of fusion experiments with Wendelstein 7-X
The experiments conducted from July until November at the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in Greifswald have achieved higher values for the density and the energy content of the plasma and long discharge times of up to 100 seconds – record results for devices of the…
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To predict the future, the brain uses two clocks
In sports, music and other activities, our movement is calculated in two different parts of the brain
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Chinese Tokamak reaches over 100M degrees
Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), nicknamed Chinese artificial sun, has achieved over 100 million degrees electron temperature in the core plasma in its 2018 four-month-long experiment campaign.
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An Israeli spacecraft is gearing up for a 2019 Moon mission
SpaceIL, a privately funded Israeli non-profit, will attempt to land a small spacecraft on the Moon in early 2019.
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The spotlight of attention is more like a strobe, say researchers
Despite the 'illusion' of continuity, human perception pulses in and out four times per second, says Princeton neuroscientist Sabine Kastner.
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1 in 4 Statisticians Say They Were Asked to Commit Scientific Fraud
As the saying goes, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." We know that's true because statisticians themselves just said so. A jaw-dropping study reveals that nearly 1 in 4 of them report being asked to remove or alter data to better support a hypothesis. That is called scientific fraud.
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How working memory gets you through the day
Scientists have discovered how brain waves are key to both maintenance and control of information in the mind. A new model for this has been developed by Earl Miller and colleagues at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT.
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Can optical illusions fool AI too?
Deep neural networks (DNN) have made the news recently for their application as a predictive software used to create convincing fake videos of politicians and celebrities. You may not be aware, however, that you have most likely already used the same technology in a much less controversial form: the translation app on…
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Myth of the Brown Recluse
Myth of the Brown Recluse: Fact, Fear, and Loathing Rick Vetter Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, CA
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Electrical properties of dendrites help explain our brain’s computing power
MIT neuroscientists have discovered that human dendrites have very different electrical properties from those of other species. These differences may contribute to the enhanced computing power of the human brain.
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Air pollution linked to “huge” reduction in intelligence
Air pollution can have a “huge” negative effect on cognitive intelligence – especially amongst older men – according to a study released this past August.
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Air India Express 737 Hits ILS, Damages Wall on Departure, Flies for 4 Hours
Air India Express flight IX611 struck an ILS lighting tower and damaged a nearby brick wall at the departure end of RWY 27 in Trichy on departure.
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Self-healing material can build itself from carbon in the air
A new material developed at MIT can mimic plants by taking carbon dioxide from the air and turning it into a useful solid material, potentially helping in the battle against global climate change.
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Black holes ruled out as universe’s missing dark matter
A statistical analysis says that black holes can make up no more than 40 percent of dark matter, the strongest limit yet
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MINERVA-II1: Successful image capture, landing on Ryugu and hop
MINERVA-II1: Successful image capture, landing on Ryugu and hop!