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The willingness of the 4f orbitals of lanthanide metals to participate in chemical reactions is as rare as their presence in Earth’s crust. A recent study, however, witnessed the 4f orbital in a cerium-based compound actively participate in bond formation, triggering a unique chemical reaction.

The researchers observed that a cerium-containing cyclic complex formed a 4f-covalent interaction, leading to a ring-opening isomerization from cyclopropene to allene. The findings are published in Nature Chemistry.

Lanthanides are heavy, rare-earth , occupying positions 57 through 71 in the —from lanthanum to lutetium—and are widely used in modern technologies ranging from electronics to clean energy. In nature, these elements are usually found together in their ore form and separating them using current methods is extremely challenging and energy-intensive. Understanding how these elements bond or interact with other atoms at an electronic level could help us to distinguish between lanthanides and design effective separation strategies.

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In every scientific discovery in the movies, a scientist observes something unexpected, scratches the side of his or her forehead and says “hmmmmm.” In just such a moment in real life, scientists from Canada observed unexpected flashes of curved green light from a red light-emitting polymer above its surface. The flashes were reminiscent of the colored arcs that auroras take above Earth’s poles, providing a clue as to their provenance.

Their resulting investigation of the new phenomenon could find applications towards understanding the failures of polymer materials and more. Their work has been published in Physical Review Letters.

Jun Gao, a professor and chair of Engineering Physics at the Engineering Physics and Astronomy Department at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada, and graduate student Dongze Wang were investigating the performance of semiconductors called polymer light-emitting electrochemical cells, or PLECs.

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As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to advance, researchers at POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology) have identified a breakthrough that could make AI technologies faster and more efficient.

Professor Seyoung Kim and Dr. Hyunjeong Kwak from the Departments of Materials Science & Engineering and Semiconductor Engineering at POSTECH, in collaboration with Dr. Oki Gunawan from the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, have become the first to uncover the hidden operating mechanisms of Electrochemical Random-Access Memory (ECRAM), a promising next-generation technology for AI. Their study is published in the journal Nature Communications.

As AI technologies advance, data processing demands have exponentially increased. Current computing systems, however, separate data storage (memory) from data processing (processors), resulting in significant time and due to data transfers between these units. To address this issue, researchers developed the concept of in-memory computing.

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Imagine if our computers could think more like us—learning from experience, adapting on the go, and doing all this while using just a fraction of the energy. That’s not science fiction anymore. Welcome to the world of Neuromorphic Computing 🧠—a field that’s redefining how machines process information by taking inspiration from the most powerful processor we know: the human brain.

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In this second episode of the AI Bros podcast Bruce and John go completely unscripted and just letting the conversation flow where it goes.

They talk about everything from Sam Altman’s controversial TED interview to John’s Animated Action Figure that came to life and broke out of its packaging. It’s interesting, fun and informative.

Subscribe, Like, Follow, and Share the AI Bros to your favorite social media platforms. The AI Bros Podcast is where artificial intelligence meets real talk.

Both Bruce and John share their hot takes, perspective and journey with AI as they learn it and use it themselves in their own day to day workflow.

The AI Bros podcast is a weekly series, and a part of the Neural News Network, and the (A)bsolutely (I)ncredible podcast channel. John Lawson III is the CEO of ColderICE Media and is highly recognized in e-commerce, and AI.

John is an Amazon #1 best-selling author, IBM Futurist, and an eBay Influencer.

He’s celebrated as one of the Top 100 Small Business Influencers in America, and crowned “Savviest in Social Medial” by StartUp Nation. You can connect with John directly on his website at www.johnlawson. comJohn is an internationally-recognized keynote speaker, a “Commerce Evangelist” and an absolute wealth of knowledge on all things e-retail, and online marketing strategy.

John is a pioneer in the online retail vertical space, and founder of The E-commerce Group, a global community of e-commerce vendors, and online marketers.

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Classical physics theories suggest that when two or more electromagnetic waves interfere destructively (i.e., with their electric fields canceling each other out), they cannot interact with matter. In contrast, quantum mechanics theory suggests that light particles continue interacting with other matter even when their average electric field is equal to zero.

Researchers from Federal University of São Carlos, ETH Zurich and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics recently carried out a study exploring this contrast between classical and quantum mechanics theories through the lens of quantum optics, the field of study exploring interactions between light and matter at a quantum level. Their paper, published in Physical Review Letters, proposes that classical interference arises from specific two-mode binomial states, which are collective bright and dark entangled states of light.

“After a long-standing and fruitful collaboration on cavity QED topics with the first author, Celso J. Villas-Boas, he and I exchanged many insightful ideas concerning the reported topic over a period of several years or so,” Gerhard Rempe, senior author of the paper, told Phys.org.

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Indiana University School of Medicine scientists have developed a powerful new imaging technique to study bone marrow in mouse models. By overcoming key challenges unique to imaging this complex tissue, this advancement could support future drug development and therapies for conditions involving bone marrow, including cancers, autoimmune diseases and musculoskeletal disorders.

The new method was made possible by the multiplex imaging tool Phenocycler 2.0, which enabled researchers to visualize a record number of cellular markers within intact tissue from mice. The findings are published in Leukemia.

“Bone marrow is difficult to study because it is gelatinous and encased in hard bone,” said Sonali Karnik, Ph.D., assistant research professor of orthopedic surgery at the IU School of Medicine and co-lead author of the study. “Since bone marrow plays an important role in blood and immune cell formation and houses valuable stem cells, our unique imaging approach offers a useful tool for a variety of research applications.”

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A study led by Pompeu Fabra University reveals which brain mechanisms allow psychosis to remit. The results of this pioneering research could have important clinical implications for exploring new intervention strategies in patients with psychosis. The study was carried out in collaboration with one of the main psychiatry groups at Lausanne University Hospital (Switzerland).

The study examines differences in the neural connectivity patterns of patients who have recovered from psychosis and subjects who have not. Identifying these differences using computational models has enabled determining which patterns of neural connectivity facilitate the remission of the disease.

The results of the research have recently been published in an article in the journal Nature Mental Health. Its principal author is Ludovica Mana, a doctor and neuroscientist of the Computational Neuroscience group at the UPF Center for Brain and Cognition (CBC). The main co-investigators are Gustavo Deco and Manel-Vila Vidal, director and researcher with the same research group, respectively.

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