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Ultra-detailed brain map shows neurons that encode words’ meaning nature.com/articles/d41586-0…

Ultra-detailed brain map shows neurons that encode words’ meaning

Nature - For the first time, scientists identify individual brain cells linked to the linguistic essence of a word.

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This week saw the inauguration of the first research prototype for MRI-guided proton therapy physicsworld.com/a/oncoray-l…

OncoRay launches world’s first whole-body MRI-guided proton therapy system – Physics World

This week saw the inauguration of the first research prototype for MRI-guided proton therapy

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Scientists discover protein that could fight ageing and prevent age-related diseases euronews.com/next/2024/01/05…
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Scientists flip around gravitational-wave data analysis: Have LIGO and Virgo detected a merger of dark-matter stars? phys.org/news/2024-01-scient… via @physorg_com
Scientists flip around gravitational-wave data analysis: Have LIGO and Virgo detected a merger of...

Scientists flip around gravitational-wave data analysis: Have LIGO and Virgo detected a merger of...

Gravitational waves are ripples in the fabric of spacetime that travel at the speed of light. These are produced in some of the most violent events in the universe, such as black-hole mergers,...

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How memories are formed in the brain: A new role for the internal compass medicalxpress.com/news/2024-… via @medical_xpress
How memories are formed in the brain: A new role for the internal compass

How memories are formed in the brain: A new role for the internal compass

Since their discovery in the 1990s, the head-direction cells in the brain have been referred to as its "internal compass." These cells are activated when the head of an animal or human points in a...

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New research suggests plants might be able to absorb more CO2 from human activities than previously expected phys.org/news/2023-11-absorb… via @physorg_com
New research suggests plants might be able to absorb more CO2 from human activities than previously...

New research suggests plants might be able to absorb more CO2 from human activities than previously...

New research published in Science Advances paints an uncharacteristically upbeat picture for the planet. This is because more realistic ecological modeling suggests the world's plants may be able to...

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Scientists use supercomputer to learn how cicada wings kill bacteria phys.org/news/2023-07-scient… via @physorg_com
Scientists use supercomputer to learn how cicada wings kill bacteria

Scientists use supercomputer to learn how cicada wings kill bacteria

Over the past decade, teams of engineers, chemists and biologists have analyzed the physical and chemical properties of cicada wings, hoping to unlock the secret of their ability to kill microbes on...

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Webb telescope finds towering plume of water escaping from one of Saturn's moons phys.org/news/2023-05-webb-t… via @physorg_com
Webb telescope finds towering plume of water escaping from one of Saturn's moons

Webb telescope finds towering plume of water escaping from one of Saturn's moons

Two Southwest Research Institute scientists were part of a James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) team that observed a towering plume of water vapor more than 6,000 miles long—roughly the distance from...

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Study finds Neanderthals manufactured synthetic material with underground distillation phys.org/news/2023-05-neande… via @physorg_com
Study finds Neanderthals manufactured synthetic material with underground distillation

Study finds Neanderthals manufactured synthetic material with underground distillation

Researchers at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and colleagues in Germany have taken a closer look at the birch tar used to affix Neanderthal tools and found a much more complex technique...

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The brain's cannabinoid system protects against addiction following childhood maltreatment, study shows medicalxpress.com/news/2023-… via @medical_xpress
The brain's cannabinoid system protects against addiction following childhood maltreatment, study...

The brain's cannabinoid system protects against addiction following childhood maltreatment, study...

High levels of the body's own cannabinoid substances protect against developing addiction in individuals previously exposed to childhood maltreatment, according to a new study from Linköping Univer...

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New findings that map the universe's cosmic growth support Einstein's theory of gravity phys.org/news/2023-04-univer… via @physorg_com

New findings that map the universe's cosmic growth support Einstein's theory of gravity

For millennia, humans have been fascinated by the mysteries of the cosmos.

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Creation and characterization of ultrashort pulses could improve electron microscopy physicsworld.com/a/attosecon…
Attosecond electron pulses are claimed as shortest ever – Physics World

Attosecond electron pulses are claimed as shortest ever – Physics World

Creation and characterization of ultrashort pulses could improve electron microscopy

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Pancreatic cancer cells found to contain high levels of hydrogen peroxide phys.org/news/2023-02-pancre… via @physorg_com
Pancreatic cancer cells found to contain high levels of hydrogen peroxide

Pancreatic cancer cells found to contain high levels of hydrogen peroxide

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are reputed for their involvement in carcinogenesis. Results from a study published in the journal Angewandte Chemie have now shown that the level of one such ROS,...

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Visualizing a complex electron wavefunction using high-resolution attosecond technology phys.org/news/2023-01-visual… via @physorg_com
Visualizing a complex electron wavefunction using high-resolution attosecond technology

Visualizing a complex electron wavefunction using high-resolution attosecond technology

The early 20th century saw the advent of quantum mechanics to describe the properties of small particles, such as electrons or atoms. Schrödinger's equation in quantum mechanics can successfully...

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Researchers Visualize Heart From 380-Million-Year-Old Fish the-scientist.com/news-opini…
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Aging Is Linked to More Activity in Short Genes Than in Long Genes scientificamerican.com/artic… via @sciam

Aging Is Linked to More Activity in Short Genes Than in Long Genes

A detailed examination of gene activity in various organisms, including humans, reveals a new hallmark of the aging process

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Eating viruses can power microorganism's growth and reproduction phys.org/news/2022-12-viruse… via @physorg_com
Eating viruses can power microorganism's growth and reproduction

Eating viruses can power microorganism's growth and reproduction

Over a single day, in the placid waters of a single pond, a million virus particles might enter a single-celled organism known for the minuscule hairs, or cilia, that propel it through those waters.

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Musicians found to listen to and enjoy louder music than non-musicians phys.org/news/2022-12-musici… via @physorg_com
Musicians found to listen to and enjoy louder music than non-musicians

Musicians found to listen to and enjoy louder music than non-musicians

A team of researchers at the University of Manchester's Centre for Audiology and Deafness, has found that musicians tend to listen to music at louder volume than non-musicians. Antonia Olivia Dolan,...

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Astronomers have found the closest known black hole to Earth sciencenews.org/article/clos…
Astronomers have found the closest known black hole to Earth

Astronomers have found the closest known black hole to Earth

Discovered by how it pushes around a companion star, the black hole is about 1,500 light-years away and roughly 10 times the mass of the sun.

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New potentially hazardous asteroid discovered phys.org/news/2022-11-potent… via @physorg_com
New potentially hazardous asteroid discovered

New potentially hazardous asteroid discovered

An international team of astronomers on Monday announced the discovery of a large asteroid whose orbit crosses that of Earth, creating a small chance far in the future of a catastrophic collision.

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