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December 28, 2021
Dec. 25, 2021 — NASA's James Webb Space Telescope launched Dec. 25 from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, South America. The Webb observatory's mission is to seek the light from the first galaxies in the early ...
Dec. 23, 2021 — A new antibody discovered in the blood of some people vaccinated against or infected with influenza can recognize a broad variety of flu ...
Dec. 22, 2021 — Analysis of ancient DNA from one of the best-preserved Neolithic tombs in Britain has revealed that most of the people buried there were from five continuous generations of a single extended family. ...
Dec. 22, 2021 — Rogue planets are elusive cosmic objects that have masses comparable to those of the planets in our Solar System but do not orbit a star, instead roaming freely on their own. Not many were known ...
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Can a Dangerous Microbe Offer a New Way to Silence Pain?

Dec. 20, 2021 — A new study shows that a toxin from the microbe that causes anthrax can silence multiple types of pain in mice. Researchers found the toxin targets pain-sensing cells to alter signaling and block pain. Building on that finding, researchers engineered an anthrax protein vehicle to deliver different ...
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Shark Antibody-Like Proteins Neutralize COVID-19 Virus, Help Prepare for Future Coronaviruses

Dec. 17, 2021 — Small, unique antibody-like proteins known as VNARs -- derived from the immune systems of sharks -- can prevent the virus that causes COVID-19, its variants, and related coronaviruses from infecting human cells, according to a ...
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Experimental mRNA HIV Vaccine Safe, Shows Promise in Animals

Dec. 9, 2021 — An experimental HIV vaccine based on mRNA -- the same platform technology used in two highly effective COVID-19 vaccines -- shows promise in mice and non-human primates, according to scientists. Their results show that the novel vaccine was safe and prompted desired antibody and cellular immune ...
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Synthetic Tissue Can Repair Hearts, Muscles, and Vocal Cords

Nov. 30, 2021 — Combining knowledge of chemistry, physics, biology, and engineering, scientists from McGill University develop a biomaterial tough enough to repair the heart, muscles, and vocal cords, representing a major advance in ...
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Could Acid-Neutralizing Life-Forms Make Habitable Pockets in Venus' Clouds?

Dec. 20, 2021 — A new study supports the longstanding idea that if life exists, it might make a home in Venus' clouds. The study's authors identified a chemical pathway by which life could neutralize Venus' acidic environment, creating a self-sustaining, habitable pocket in ...
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A Spacecraft Has 'Touched' the Sun for the First Time

Dec. 14, 2021 — On April 28, 2021, NASA's Parker Solar Probe reached the sun's extended solar atmosphere, known as the corona, and spent five hours there. The spacecraft is the first to enter the outer boundaries of ...
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Beads of Glass in Meteorites Help Scientists Piece Together How Solar System Formed

Dec. 1, 2021 — Scientists have published an analysis laying out how the tiny beads of glass inside many meteorites came to be -- and what they can tell us about what happened in the early ...
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Brief Presence of Water in Arabia Terra on Mars

Nov. 30, 2021 — Scientists recently discovered that water was once present in a region of Mars called ...
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Himalayan Glaciers Melting at 'Exceptional Rate'

Dec. 20, 2021 — The accelerating melting of the Himalayan glaciers threatens the water supply of millions of people in Asia, new research warns. The study concludes that over recent decades the Himalayan glaciers have lost ice ten times more quickly over the last few decades than on average since the last major ...
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Gene-Editing Used to Create Single Sex Mice Litters

Dec. 3, 2021 — Scientists have used gene editing technology to create female-only and male-only mice litters with 100 ...
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Strong Winds Power Electric Fields in the Upper Atmosphere

Nov. 29, 2021 — Using observations from NASA's ICON mission, scientists presented the first direct measurements of Earth's long-theorized dynamo on the edge of space: a wind-driven electrical generator that spans the globe 60-plus miles above our heads. The dynamo churns in the ionosphere, the electrically charged ...
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Increasingly Frequent Wildfires Linked to Human-Caused Climate Change

Nov. 5, 2021 — A new study strengthens the case that climate change has been the main cause of the growing amount of land in the western U.S. destroyed by large wildfires. And researchers say the trend is likely ...
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Health News
December 28, 2021
Nov. 11, 2021 — Research has revealed a correlation between being particularly proficient in tool use and having good syntactic ability. A new study has now shown that both skills rely on the same neurological ...
Nov. 11, 2021 — Researchers have developed an injectable therapy based on nanofibers that has enabled paralyzed mice with severe spinal cord injuries to regain the ability to ...
Nov. 1, 2021 — Researchers show it is possible to improve specific human brain functions related to self-control and mental flexibility by merging artificial intelligence with targeted electrical brain ...
Oct. 8, 2021 — Our DNA is very similar to that of the chimpanzee, which in evolutionary terms is our closest living relative. Stem cell researchers have now found a previously overlooked part of our DNA, so-called ...
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Radioactive Radiation Could Damage Biological Tissue Also Via a Previously Unnoticed Mechanism

Dec. 27, 2021 — When cells are exposed to ionizing radiation, more destructive chain reactions may occur than previously thought. An international team led by researchers has now observed intermolecular Coulombic decay in organic molecules. This is triggered by ionizing radiation such as from radioactivity or from space. The effect damages two neighboring ...
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‘Battle of the Sexes’ Begins in Womb as Father and Mother’s Genes Tussle Over Nutrition

Dec. 27, 2021 — Scientists have identified a key signal that the fetus uses to control its supply of nutrients from the placenta, revealing a tug-of-war between genes inherited from the father and from the mother. The study, carried out in mice, could help explain why some babies grow poorly in the ...
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Disarming a Blood-Clotting Protein Prevents Gum Disease in Mice

Dec. 23, 2021 — Blocking function of a blood-clotting protein, called fibrin, prevented bone loss from periodontal (gum) disease in mice, according to new research. The study suggests that suppressing abnormal fibrin activity could hold promise for preventing or treating periodontal disease, as well as other inflammatory disorders marked by fibrin buildup, including arthritis and multiple ...
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Dietary Fiber Improves Outcomes for Melanoma Patients on Immunotherapy

Dec. 23, 2021 — Melanoma patients receiving therapy that makes it easier for their immune system to kill cancer cells respond to treatment better when their diet is rich in fiber, according to a large, international research ...
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CBD Reduces Glioblastoma’s Size, Supportive Environment in Experimental Model

Dec. 23, 2021 — Inhaled CBD shrinks the size of the highly aggressive, lethal brain tumor glioblastoma in an animal model by reducing the essential support of its microenvironment, researchers ...
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Mapping the Musical Mind

Dec. 23, 2021 — Researchers used magnetic resonance imaging to study the brains of secondary school students during a task focused on musical observation. They found that students trained to play music from a young age exhibited certain kinds of brain activity more strongly than other students. The researchers also observed a specific link between musical processing and areas of the brain associated with ...
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Exposure to Formaldehyde at Work Linked to Cognitive Problems Later

Dec. 22, 2021 — A variety of jobs expose people to formaldehyde, a strong-smelling gas used in manufacturing wood and chemical products, plastics and in other applications. A new study suggests that long-term exposure to formaldehyde during work may be associated with cognitive impairment later ...
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Reduce Frailty to Lower Dementia

Dec. 22, 2021 — Reducing frailty in older adults could be an effective strategy to prevent dementia, according to a largescale new ...
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First Model to Predict Lifetime Risk of Heart Failure

Dec. 21, 2021 — By answering a few basic questions, a new heart failure-risk model can provide an on-the-spot estimate of whether an individual will experience heart failure in the next 30 years. The ability to identify who is at greatest risk for heart failure -- especially among high-risk young adult populations -- will allow physicians to start prevention measures ...
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Researchers Lay Groundwork for Potential Dog-Allergy Vaccine

Dec. 22, 2021 — Scientists have identified a series of molecular candidates for those parts of dog allergens that cause immune reactions in people--the first step in developing a vaccine against most causes of dog ...
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Where Does the Special Scent of Thyme and Oregano Come From?

Dec. 21, 2021 — Thyme and oregano are not only popular herbs for cooking, but also valuable medicinal plants. Their essential oils contain thymol and carvacrol which impart the typical flavors and are medically important. A team has now fully identified how the plants produce these two substances. The results could simplify the breeding process and improve the pharmaceutical value of thyme and ...
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People With High-Risk Prediabetes Benefit from Intensive Lifestyle Intervention

Dec. 20, 2021 — Intensive lifestyle intervention with plenty of exercise helps people with prediabetes improve their blood glucose levels over a period of years and thus delay or even prevent type 2 diabetes. In particular, individuals with prediabetes at highest risk benefited from intensive lifestyle ...
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Physical/Tech News
December 28, 2021
Nov. 30, 2021 — Researchers have created and observed a new phase of matter, popularly known as a time ...
Nov. 2, 2021 — Astronomers and geologists have made the first estimates of rock types that exist on planets orbiting nearby stars. After studying the chemical composition of 'polluted' white dwarfs, they have ...
Nov. 3, 2021 — To counter hacking, researchers have developed a new system based on the concept of 'zero-knowledge proofs', the security of which is based on the physical principle of relativity: information cannot ...
Nov. 4, 2021 — Scientists have built a plant that can produce carbon-neutral liquid fuels from sunlight and air. The next goal will be to take this technology to industrial scale and achieve competitiveness. ...
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'Nano-Chocolates' That Store Hydrogen

Dec. 27, 2021 — An innovative approach could turn nanoparticles into simple storage devices for hydrogen. The concept uses nanoparticles made of the precious metal ...
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Record-Setting Isotope of Magnesium

Dec. 23, 2021 — Researchers have created an extraordinarily light version, or isotope, of ...
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Researchers Use Electron Microscope to Turn Nanotube Into Tiny Transistor

Dec. 23, 2021 — Researchers have used a unique tool inserted into an electron microscope to create a transistor that's 25,000 times smaller than the width of a human ...
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Fingers Made of Laser Light: Controlled Grabbing and Rotation of Biological Micro-Objects

Dec. 23, 2021 — Scientists develop concept for feedback-controlled optical tweezers.These tweezers made of highly focused laser light can grab cell clusters in a controlled manner and rotate them in any direction. This will allow objects such as miniature tumors to be studied more specifically under the ...
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Computer Simulation Models Potential Asteroid Collisions

Dec. 21, 2021 — Researchers have developed a computer simulation of asteroid collisions that initially sought to replicate model asteroid strikes performed in a laboratory. After verifying the accuracy of the simulation, he believes it could be used to predict the result of future asteroid impacts or to learn more about past impacts by studying their craters. The simulation was built using the space-time ...
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Astronomers Capture Black Hole Eruption Spanning 16 Times the Full Moon in the Sky

Dec. 22, 2021 — Astronomers have produced the most comprehensive image of radio emission from the nearest actively feeding supermassive black hole to Earth. The emission is powered by a central black hole in the galaxy Centaurus A, about 12 million light years away. When viewed from Earth, the eruption from Centaurus A now extends eight degrees across the sky -- ...
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Tracking Down the Forces That Shaped Our Solar System’s Evolution

Dec. 22, 2021 — Meteorites are remnants of the building blocks that formed Earth and the other planets orbiting our Sun. Recent analysis of their isotopic makeup led settles a longstanding debate about the geochemical evolution of our Solar System and our home ...
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Earth and Mars Were Formed from Inner Solar System Material

Dec. 22, 2021 — Cosmochemists now present the most comprehensive comparison to date of the isotopic composition of Earth, Mars and pristine building material from the inner and outer Solar ...
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Simple, Accurate, and Efficient: Improving the Way Computers Recognize Hand Gestures

Dec. 27, 2021 — Recent progress in camera systems, image analysis, and machine learning have made optical-based gesture recognition a more attractive option in most contexts. However, current methods are hindered by a variety of limitations, including high computational complexity, low speed, poor accuracy, or a low number of recognizable ...
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‘Pop-Up’ Electronic Sensors Could Detect When Individual Heart Cells Misbehave

Dec. 23, 2021 — UC San Diego engineers developed a powerful new tool that directly measures the movement and speed of electrical signals inside heart cells, using tiny 'pop-up' sensors that poke into cells without damaging them. It could be used to gain more detailed insights into heart disorders and ...
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Machine Learning Models Quantum Devices

Dec. 22, 2021 — Technologies that take advantage of novel quantum mechanical behaviors are likely to become commonplace in the near future. These may include devices that use quantum information as input and output data, which require careful verification due to inherent uncertainties. The verification is more challenging if the device is time dependent when the output depends on past inputs. For the first time, ...
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A New Platform for Controlled Design of Printed Electronics With 2D Materials

Dec. 21, 2021 — Scientists have shown how electricity is transported in printed 2D materials, paving the way for design of flexible devices for healthcare and ...
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Environment News
December 28, 2021
Nov. 1, 2021 — Researchers discovered precisely how spiders build webs by using night vision and artificial intelligence to track and record every movement of all eight legs as spiders worked in the dark. Their ...
Nov. 2, 2021 — Can baby seals adapt their voices to sounds? Researchers have now studied seal pups only a few weeks old. The pups lowered the pitch of their voice when they heard louder noises. This vocal ...
Nov. 1, 2021 — Global warming has caused extreme ice melting events in Greenland to become more frequent and more intense over the past 40 years according to new ...
Oct. 14, 2021 — The ability to detect and react to the smell of a potential threat is a precondition of our and other mammals' survival. Using a novel technique, researchers have been able to study what happens in ...
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Blueprint Reveals How Plants Build a Sugar Transport Lane

Dec. 23, 2021 — A tiny region at the root tip has been found to be responsible for orchestrating the growth and development of the complex network of vascular tissues that transport sugars through plant ...
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Controlled Burning of Natural Environments Could Help Offset Our Carbon Emissions

Dec. 23, 2021 — Planting trees and suppressing wildfires do not necessarily maximize the carbon storage of natural ecosystems. A new study has found that prescribed burning can actually lock in or increase carbon in the soils of temperate forests, savannahs and ...
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HIV Infection: Better Understanding the Reservoir of Virus in the Body

Dec. 23, 2021 — Researchers have developed a method that allows resting human immune cells to be genetically analyzed in detail for the first ...
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Microorganism Sheds New Light on Cancer Resistance

Dec. 23, 2021 — Scientists describe T. adhaerens' unusual behavior, including its capacity to repair its DNA even after significant radiation damage and to extrude injured cells, which later die. The findings advance scientific investigations of natural cancer-suppression mechanisms across life. Insights gleaned from these evolutionary adaptations may find their way into new and more effective therapies for this ...
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Contorted Oceanic Plate Caused Complex Quake Off New Zealand’s East Cape

Dec. 27, 2021 — Researchers used a novel finite-fault inversion method with seismometer data from around the world to investigate a deep intraslab earthquake that occurred on March 4, 2021, off the northeastern tip of New Zealand's North Island. This imaging revealed complex rupture geometry that included shallow faulting with trench-perpendicular extension and unusual deep faulting with trench-parallel ...
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Templating Approach Stabilizes 'Ideal' Material for Alternative Solar Cells

Dec. 23, 2021 — Researchers have developed a method to stabilize a promising material known as perovskite for cheap solar cells, without compromising its near-perfect ...
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Earth's First Giant

Dec. 23, 2021 — The two-meter skull of an enormous new ichthyosaur species, Earth's first known giant creature, reveals how both the extinct marine reptiles and modern whales became ...
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Study Finds Electric Vehicles Provide Lower Carbon Emissions Through Additional Channels

Dec. 21, 2021 — A recent study found that the total indirect emissions from the supply of chain of electric vehicles pale in comparison to the same indirect emissions from fossil fuel-powered ...
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Geneticists’ New Research on Ancient Britain Contains Insights on Language, Ancestry, Kinship, Milk

Dec. 22, 2021 — New research revealing a major migration to the island of Great Britain offers fresh insights into the languages spoken at the time, the ancestry of present-day England and Wales, and even ancient habits of dairy ...
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Solar Flare Throws Light on Ancient Trade Between the Islamic Middle East and the Viking Age

Dec. 22, 2021 — An interdisciplinary Danish team of researchers has used new astronomical knowledge to establish an exact time anchor for the arrival of trade flows from the Middle East in Viking-age Scandinavia. The results are published in the leading international journal ...
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Exquisitely Preserved Embryo Found Inside Fossilized Dinosaur Egg

Dec. 21, 2021 — A 72 to 66-million-year-old embryo found inside a fossilized dinosaur egg sheds new light on the link between the behavior of modern birds and dinosaurs, according to a new ...
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Plants as Cold Specialists from the Ice Age

Dec. 21, 2021 — Plants of the spoonweed group time-and-again quickly adapted to a changing climate during the Ice Ages of the last two million years. Evolutionary biologists and botanists used genomic analyses to study what factors favor adaptation to extreme climatic conditions. The evolutionary history of the Brassicaceae family provides insights into how plants may be able to cope with climate change in the ...
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Society/Education News
December 28, 2021
Sep. 28, 2021 — New research finds that children who eat more fruit and veg have better mental health. The study is the first to investigate the association between fruit and vegetable intakes, breakfast and lunch ...
Aug. 30, 2021 — What transpires in comedies and cartoons when a character has a devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other is not far off from people's ...
Aug. 27, 2021 — Cutting 20 percent of sugar from packaged foods and 40 percent from beverages could prevent 2.48 million cardiovascular disease events (such as strokes, heart attacks, cardiac arrests), 490,000 ...
Aug. 9, 2021 — Scientists are observing changes in the Earth's climate in every region and across the whole climate system, according to the latest IPCC Report. Many of the changes observed in the climate are ...
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Brain Mechanisms Involved in Learning Also Drive Social Conformity

Dec. 21, 2021 — Some of the same brain systems known to play a role in learning from trial and error also are engaged when people conform to social norms, scientists report in a new study. The findings are important, the researchers said, because changing one's behavior to align with one's peers can contribute to community-building or -- depending on the goals and values of the group -- societal ...
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Understanding Human-Elephant Conflict and Vulnerability in the Face of Climate Change

Dec. 20, 2021 — Researchers spent years investigating the dynamics between wildlife, people and the environment across the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area, the world's largest terrestrial transboundary conservation area, extending across five African ...
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School Uniforms Don't Improve Child Behavior, Study Finds

Dec. 20, 2021 — Despite the belief of many parents and teachers, school uniforms don't seem to have any effect on young students' behavior or attendance overall, a new U.S. national study ...
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Treatments in Weeks, Not Months: Scientists Develop Ambitious Pandemic Response Plan

Dec. 21, 2021 — An international team of scientists has created a plan for an accelerated pipeline for developing drug cocktails to battle the COVID-19 pandemic. The pipeline could speed new and better treatments that the newly diagnosed and recently exposed could take at home to prevent serious ...
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Key Neural Mechanism Believed to Support Advanced Cognitive Abilities Discovered

Dec. 21, 2021 — Scientists have discovered a neural mechanism that is believed to support advanced cognitive abilities such as planning and ...
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Star Cells in the Brain Render Memory Flexible

Dec. 21, 2021 — Star cells in the brain render memory flexible. Hippocampal astrocytes co-release D-serine and glutamate for the regulation of synaptic plasticity and cognitive ...
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How the Brain Understands One Voice in a Noisy Crowd

Dec. 17, 2021 — Researchers find that the brain is taking an extra step when listening to one speaker in a crowd, and not taking that step with the other words swirling around the ...
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Realistic Model of Mouse Hippocampus Uncovers New Mechanism for Pattern Separation

Dec. 16, 2021 — Our brains can distinguish highly similar patterns, thanks to a process called pattern separation. How exactly our brains separate patterns is, however, not full,y understood yet. Using a full-scale computer model of the dentate gyrus, a brain region involved in pattern separation, researchers found that inhibitory neurons activated by one pattern ...
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IT Security: Computer Attacks With Laser Light

Dec. 21, 2021 — Computer systems that are physically isolated from the outside world (air-gapped) can still be attacked. This is demonstrated by IT security experts. They show that data can be transmitted to light-emitting diodes of regular office devices using a directed laser. With this, attackers can secretly communicate with air-gapped computer systems over distances of several meters. In addition to ...
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Personality Traits Predict Performance Differently Across Different Jobs

Dec. 13, 2021 — Researchers combined multiple meta-analyses of the five big personality traits and examined their effect on job performance. Researchers examined the effect of personality traits — conscientiousness, openness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism — on performance in different ...
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Which Personality Traits Can Be Improved Without Personal Motivation? Research Says 'It Depends'

Dec. 7, 2021 — Could a company train an employee to become more conscientious, even if the worker isn't invested in improving that trait? A new study suggests yes. But improving someone's emotional stability without that person's commitment is not likely to ...
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Breakthrough Tool to Show How Much Exoskeletons Reduce Back Injury Risk

Nov. 30, 2021 — A study reveals a breakthrough tool to assess the effect of exoskeletons on injury risk. The tool, called Exo-LiFFT, is an interactive calculator that will help companies looking for ways to overcome workforces struggling with musculoskeletal injuries, missed work, and accelerated retirement amongst skilled ...
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