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Certain melodies promote brain development in premature infants. For several years, a team of scientists have observed this phenomenon. They now know more precisely which areas of the brain react over time.

Premature infants are more likely to suffer from attention and emotional regulation disorders. For more than a decade, a team has been investigating an unexpected solution to prevent these problems: music. Scientists at the Geneva University Hospitals (HUG) exposed several cohorts of infants born at an average of 29 weeks to music.

Several of their publications, which have been widely covered in the media, underline the potential of this approach. The team’s latest study demonstrates that music boosts cerebral connectivity in the areas of the brain usually affected in preterm infants.

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From the ancient Egyptians’ use of electric fish to treat headaches to the invention of pacemakers to regulate heart rhythms in the 1950s, the field of bioelectronic medicine—which makes use of electrical signals instead of drugs to diagnose and treat disease—has advanced and has started to come into its own. Where is the field now? And what are the most promising opportunities for life-changing new therapies and diagnostics?

New research led by Imanuel Lerman, head of the Lerman Lab of the UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute and UC San Diego School of Medicine Department of Anesthesiology, as well as the VA Center of Excellence for Stress and Mental Health, provides some answers.

“This paper is intended to be a roadmap to the future of the biomedicine field,” Lerman said. “We’re putting a flagpole in the ground and saying, ‘This is what we’re planning to do, and this is the story behind it.’ That’s why there are 180 references. We want to make sure that everybody has the resources they may need to be able to understand and read deeper if they want to.”

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A new study that provides unprecedented insights into the chemical bonding of antimony could have a profound impact on materials research. The collaboration between scientists from Leipzig University, RWTH Aachen University and the DESY synchrotron in Hamburg combined experimental measurements with theoretical calculations.

The findings will help scientists to better understand phase change materials and, in particular, improve their application in and thermoelectrics. The research has now been published in Advanced Materials.

The study combined experimental measurements with , with the aim of analyzing the nature and strength of the chemical bonding in antimony. “The strength of a bond depends directly on the distance between the atoms,” says Professor Claudia S. Schnohr of the Felix Bloch Institute for Solid State Physics at Leipzig University, adding that comparisons with other materials such as metals and semiconductors show that this distance dependence is characteristic of the type of chemical bond.

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Blue Ghost, a lunar lander carrying 10 NASA

NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, is the United States government agency responsible for the nation’s civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research. Established in 1958 by the National Aeronautics and Space Act, NASA has led the U.S. in space exploration efforts, including the Apollo moon-landing missions, the Skylab space station, and the Space Shuttle program.

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Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about an intriguing experiment that created endosymbiosis.
Links:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08010-x.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9040847/
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#symbiosis #biology #life.

0:00 Endosymbiosis in a nutshell.
1:50 Examples.
3:00 Fungal endosymbiosis.
5:35 Questions that need answering.
6:10 Incredible new experiment.
6:48 What fungus was used.
8:00 What the experiment was trying to do.
9:30 Successful union and reproduction.
11:15 Major discoveries 13:00 Conclusions.

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A look at the enduring relevance.of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
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Review/analysis references the following material:

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman, 1978)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel, 1956)
The Invasion (Oliver Hirschbiegel / James McTeigue, 2007)
Body Snatchers (Abel Ferrara, 1993)
Little Joe (Jessica Hausner, 2019)
The Trap (Adam Curtis, 2007)
Paracelsus (G.W. Pabst, 1943)
Day of Wrath (Carl Dreyer, 1943)
The Devils (Ken Russell, 1971)
Triumph of the Will (Leni Riefenstahl, 1935)
A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise, 1951)
Childhood’s End (Arthur C. Clarke, 1953)

For entertainment and educational purposes only.

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As artificial intelligence models become increasingly advanced, electronics engineers have been trying to develop new hardware that is better suited for running these models, while also limiting power-consumption and boosting the speed at which they process data. Some of the most promising solutions designed to meet the needs of machine learning algorithms are platforms based on memristors.

Memristors, or memory resistors, are electrical components that can retain their resistance even in the absence of electrical power, adjusting their resistance based on the electrical charge passing through them. This means that they can simultaneously support both the storage and processing of information, which could be advantageous for running machine learning algorithms.

Memristor-based devices could be used to develop more compact and energy-efficient hardware for running AI models, including emerging distributed computing solutions referred to as edge computing systems. Despite their advantages, many existing -based platforms have been found to have notable limitations, adversely impacting their reliability and endurance.

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