Is Task Complexity the Cause of Brain Asymmetry?
Biology

Is Task Complexity the Cause of Brain Asymmetry?

Animal brains have somewhat mirror-symmetric neural networks, and asymmetries are hypothesized to be more common in species with higher cognitive abilities. This assumption suggests that more sophisticated neural tasks involve mirror-symmetric neural circuits in the brain. [more…]

If Personal Robots Were Cuter
SCIENCE

If Personal Robots Were Cuter

At the Media Lab, a research scientist named Sharifa Alghowinem is researching personal robot technology that can explain emotions in both English and Arabic. Research science at the Personal Robotics Group (PRG) at the MIT Media Lab [more…]

Producing Tiny Artificial Eyelashes
Biology

Producing Tiny Artificial Eyelashes

With the help of small magnetic rods and a rotating magnetic field, scientists were able to mimic the undulating motion of hair-like structures on cell surfaces. Thanks to the coordinated fluctuation of hair-like structures known as cilia, [more…]

Extensive Study of Crystal Vibrations
Physics

Extensive Study of Crystal Vibrations

A new set of equations that underpin computer research captures the dynamic interaction of electrons and vibrations in crystals. Although a crystal is a highly ordered structure, it is never at rest because it is at absolute zero. [more…]

New Way to Reduce Building Energy Use
Environment and Climate

New Way to Reduce Building Energy Use

Highly energy efficient buildings can reduce energy costs as well as carbon emissions and air pollution that contribute to climate change and other negative health effects. However, energy efficient building design has environmental [more…]

Binding Energies of Hypertritons Determined
Astronomy

Binding Energies of Hypertritons Determined

The binding energy and lifetime of hypertriton, a particle that can shed light on the structure of neutron stars, were determined by researchers. The Higgs boson, created by colliding high-energy protons, was discovered at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012. [more…]

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Environment and Climate

Macron's climate finance summit fails

It was originally planned to be a turning point. French President Emmanuel Macron will host foreign leaders and finance ministers on Thursday and Friday at a neoclassical building built by Napoleon's orders to house the Paris stock exchange. [more…]

Climate change
Environment and Climate

Deaths due to temperature changes in the USA

A new study finds that if global temperatures rise 3 degrees Celsius (5,4 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels before cities can adequately upgrade their existing cooling systems, the U.S. will suffer heat-related deaths every year. [more…]

How to Make sense of Quantum Chaos
Physics

How to Make sense of Quantum Chaos?

Using a new symmetry-based categorization, researchers can describe open, many-body quantum systems that exhibit quantum chaos. Both theorists and experimenters are fascinated by quantum systems consisting of large numbers of particles and the strange phenomena they exhibit. [more…]