Based on the interlocking structure of chainmail, this material has all the best parts of both solids and liquids.
An international team of researchers, led by physicists from the University of Vienna, has achieved a breakthrough in data processing by employing an “inverse-design” approach. This method allows algorithms to configure a system based on desired functions, bypassing manual design and complex simulations. The result is a smart “universal” device that uses spin waves (“magnons”) to perform multiple data processing tasks with exceptional energy efficiency.
Published in Nature Electronics, this innovation marks a transformative advance in unconventional computing, with significant potential for next-generation telecommunications, computing, and neuromorphic systems.
Modern electronics face critical challenges, including high energy consumption and increasing design complexity. In this context, magnonics—the use of magnons, or quantized spin waves in magnetic materials —offers a promising alternative. Magnons enable efficient data transport and processing with minimal energy loss.
Despite strong interest in using artificial intelligence to make research faster, easier and more accessible, researchers say they need more support to navigate its possibilities.
Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS) have uncovered how perceptual memories linked to positive emotions, such as joy or happiness, are strengthened during sleep. The study, published in Neuron, could help scientists understand the neurological basis for overcoming conditions like drug or sexual addiction.
Why do emotional events, whether positive or negative, create strong, long-lasting memories of external information such as music, smells and textures received at the events?
We know that sleep is essential for memory consolidation, the process that turns new events into memories, but do not know how it plays its role in memory enhancement.
Groundbreaking experiments suggest plants might be living, thinking, and feeling entities, challenging our understanding of consciousness.
Imagine walking through a dense forest, feeling the hush of nature all around you. You might assume that the only beings truly aware in that space are the birds in the trees, the insects in the soil, or perhaps yourself. But what if the trees, the flowers, and even the grass beneath your feet are more conscious than we’ve ever given them credit for?
For centuries, science has treated consciousness as a function of the brain—a phenomenon exclusive to creatures with neurons and synapses. Yet recent studies on plant behavior challenge this long-held assumption. Plants exhibit problem-solving skills, communicate through underground networks, and even appear to remember past experiences. Some researchers now argue that consciousness might not be a byproduct of the brain at all, but rather an intrinsic quality of life itself.
Spermidine metabolism regulates leukemia stem and progenitor cell function through KAT7 expression in patient-derived mouse models
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A metabolomics study pinpointed the differences between leukemia stem cells (LSCs) and their normal counterparts, and suggests elevated levels of spermidine are a signature and a targetable weakness in LSCs.
Spermidine is essential for the function of leukemia stem and progenitor cells through the regulation of KAT7 expression.
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