Author - Marcílio Santos

19th-Century Whaling Shipwreck Identified in the Gulf of Mexico

This picture of the try-works was drawn from the shipwreck site of the whaler Market by an NOAA ROV. The try-works was a cast-iron stove with two deep kettles utilized to make whale blubber right into the oil. (Picture credit: NOAA Sea Expedition).Indigenous Americans and the descendants of enslaved African individuals functioned as crew...

New, Possibly Arboreal Rice Rat Varieties Uncovered in Ecuador

New, possibly arboreal rice rat species discovered in Ecuador - ScienceDaily - Verve timesVisitar"In total, the expeditions to the Kutukú region in southeastern Ecuador involved 1,200 trap nights, but only one specimen of the new species Mindomys kutuku was found," claims Dr. Claudia Koch, curator of herpetology at the LIB, Gallery Koenig Bonn, describing the effort...

Nuclear Fusion: How Thrilled Should We Be?

Fusion could create more energy than any other process that could be produced on Earth. Credit: ShutterstockThere has been significant excitement about recent results from the Joint European Torus (JET) facility in the UK, suggesting that the dream of nuclear fusion power is inching closer to reality. We know that fusion works-- it is the...

Individual Neurons Can Learn by Predicting Future Activity

Credit: Artur LuczakHumans have been trying to comprehend exactly how the brain works and how it obtains information for centuries. While neuroscientists now have a decent understanding of how different parts of the brain work and what their function is, numerous questions remain unanswered; therefore, a unified neuroscience theory is still missing.In recent years,...

How Game Theory Method Boosts Choice Making

Game theory, the investigation of tactical decisions, brings various skills such as math, psychology, and point of view together. Game theory was created by John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern in 1944 and has traveled a long way ever since. The worth of game theory for decision making and evaluation today can be assessed...

Synthetic Enamel Similar to the Natural Tooth Enamel

Scientists from Beihang University, the Peking University School and Hospital of Stomatology and the Michigan Institute of Translational Nanotechnology produced a synthetic enamel. Such Synthetic enamel as similar properties to natural tooth enamel.Article published in the journal Science. Its title: Multiscale engineered artificial tooth enamel, Science (2022). The article illustrates how well the new synthetic material compare...

Einstein’s Theory of Relativity Goes Through the Observation of LHAASO

Scientists from the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences analyzed the validity of the relativity theory with the highest possible accuracy in a study entitled "Exploring Lorentz Invariance Violation from Ultrahigh-Energy γRays Observed by LHAASO," which was published in the most recent issue of Physical Review Letters.According to Einstein's...

Redefining what Information is Vital in Quantum Measurements

Information about a quantum state is split into three information contents (i.e., information gain, disturbance, and reversibility). Credit: Hong et al.Scientists at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) have attempted to capture the interaction between different kinds of information that are essential while gathering quantum measurements, specifically information gain, disturbance, and reversibility. Their paper, released...

Quantum Sensor Technology Developed by Researchers Can Look Into the Earth

Seeing beneath our feetResearchers are hoping a significant advancement in quantum sensor technology that is being refed to as an "Edison moment" has worldwide implications.A new study in Nature details one of the first practical uses of quantum sensing, a since mostly theoretical technology that combines quantum physics and the study of Earth's gravity to look below...

Taking the First Steps Towards the Optimal Production of Biofuels

Partial density of states for 2,3-butanediol with accompanying partial charge density images; isosurface of 0.0075 electrons/Bohr3. The gray, red, brown, and pink spheres are Ru, O, C, and H atoms, respectively. Credit: DOI: 10.3389/fenrg.2021.781001From Plants to Jet fuelA long-overlooked first step in producing sustainable aviation fuels will start with the ideal arrangement of molecular...