Much of the electrical activity in the brain looks like noise and is not associated with reactions to any particular stimuli. The scientists found that there was structure in the noise that could reveal the state of attentiveness in the brain. In this model of brain activity in the monkey visual cortex, the overall...
In nations like Denmark and Germany, gifts are given on Christmas Eve rather than Christmas morning. Furthermore, on Christmas Eve 2021, 587 groups of researchers at universities around Australia got a festive present from the Australian Research Council (ARC), in the form of information that their 2022 Discovery Projects were to be financed. More brutally,...
The patterns of the ocellated lizard are predictable by a mathematical model. Credit: UNIGE / Michel Milinkovitch The shape-shifting clouds of starling birds, the order of neural networks, or the anthill structure: Nature has many complicated systems whose behaviors can be modeled using mathematical tools. The same holds for the labyrinthine patterns created by the...
Most people make fitness resolutions for the new year. Unfortunately, these resolutions are usually only temporary. Numerous studies have discovered the magic bullet for getting people to achieve long-term gains in their fitness regimen. The majority of interventions were unsuccessful. Researchers from a variety of universities, including five from Carnegie Mellon University, approached the problem...
Exascale computing is the following milestone in the advancement of supercomputers. Capable of processing information much faster than today's most powerful supercomputers, exascale computers will certainly give researchers a new tool for addressing a few of the most significant obstacles facing our world, from climate change to understanding cancer to designing brand-new sort of...
Researchers from Osaka University and Osaka City University synthesize and crystallize a molecule that is usually too unstable to thoroughly study in the laboratory. The molecule is also a model of a revolutionary class of magnets. Since the very first documented production in 2004, researchers have been hard at work utilizing graphene and identical...
A SpaceX Cargo Dragon spacecraft docked to the International Space Station. Credit: NASA A retired microscope and samples from research studies on colloids and cellular signaling are among the load returning from the International Space Station aboard the 24th SpaceX commercial resupply services mission. The Dragon craft, which reached the station on December 22, 2021,...
This fluorescence microscopy image shows yeast vacuoles that have undergone phase separation. Credit: Luther Davis/Alexey Merz/University of Washington Membranes are essential to our cells. Every cell in your body is encased by one. And each of those cells contains specialized chambers, or organelles, which are similarly confined by membranes. Membranes assist cells in accomplishing tasks like...
Credit: Xponentialdesign Cosmic physics simulated on the tabletop as graphene enables the Schwinger effect, forming particle-antiparticle pairs. Researchers at The University of Manchester succeeded in observing the supposed Schwinger effect. The Schwinger effect is an evasive process that usually happens only in cosmic events. The group - based at the National Graphene Institute - accomplished to...
DETI mapping results from the brain of a person viewing one of the stimuli used in the experiment (far left). The central column shows a flattened topographical map of the electrodes over the back of the head, illustrating the variation of DETI maps at each electrode across that scalp region. On the right-hand side,...
