“The most significant results were observed in the beams with completely separated hexagonal tablets, which are similar to nacre. These beams exhibited 19 times the ductility and 17 times the fracture toughness while retaining nearly the same strength as the […]
“Scientists have identified a new member on the genetic family tree of an endangered pupfish native to south-central New Mexico.” They think the origin of the new species is genetic drift, not natural selection. “Genetic drift results from the random […]
A TED talk given by researcher (and Novo Nordisk employee?) Mads Tang-Christensen in September 2021, before most of us had ever heard of GLP-1. ~ learn more
“A new heat-to-energy converter has reached a record efficiency of 44% – the average steam turbine manages about 35%, for comparison. This thermophotovoltaic cell is a major step on the way to sustainable, grid-scale renewable energy storage.” ~ learn more
“In this article, we show that despite the nominal endorsement of a maximum false-positive rate of 5% (i.e., p ≤ .05), current standards for disclosing details of data collection and analyses make false positives vastly more likely. In fact, it […]
If anyone who understands material science well would like to tutor me a bit, I would be grateful! “Our work represents an order-of-magnitude expansion in stable materials known to humanity. Stable discoveries that are on the final convex hull will […]
“Wireless devices use different filters for different frequencies, with the effect that covering all frequencies or bands requires large numbers of filters that take up substantial space. (The typical smartphone includes upwards of 100 filters, to ensure that signals from […]
“When examining the cognitive data, the team found two types of brain aging: slower-than-accepted and accelerated. When they combined the cognitive data with the nutritional measurements, they found a certain nutritional profile clearly linked to those with slower brain aging.” […]
Much better than a placebo, says this study of over 4,000 participants. It measured changes to “weight-related quality of life (WRQOL) and health-related quality of life (HRQOL)” scores. What I found interesting was that even with the drug, only 40-50% […]
Who’s ready for this future? “Our proposed framework successfully reconstructed both seen images (i.e., those observed by the human eye) and imagined images from brain activity. Quantitative evaluation showed that our framework could identify seen and imagined images highly accurately […]