Dr. Sam Parnia talks about reviving people adter they died. Very informative. Fast forward a little to listen to it.
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Sep 11, 2024
Brain-wide dynamics linking sensation to action during decision-making
Posted by Cecile G. Tamura in category: neuroscience
Researchers at SWC have mapped how the brain transforms sensations into action.
Read the story: https://sainsburywellcome.org/web/research-news/brain-wide-d…discovered.
Full paper in https://nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07908-w.
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Sep 11, 2024
Novel Mössbauer scheme proposed for gravitation wave detection
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: innovation, physics
Scientists at the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have proposed an innovative method to realize gravitational wave detection by utilizing Mössbauer resonance. Their findings, recently published in Science Bulletin, highlight a new approach that could revolutionize the study of gravitational waves.
Sep 11, 2024
Scientists cool positronium to near absolute zero for antimatter research
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: particle physics
Most atoms are made from positively charged protons, neutral neutrons and negatively charged electrons. Positronium is an exotic atom composed of a single negative electron and a positively charged antimatter positron. It is naturally very short-lived, but researchers including those from the University of Tokyo successfully cooled and slowed down samples of positronium using carefully tuned lasers.
Sep 11, 2024
Discovery of a new phase of matter in 2D defies normal statistical mechanics
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: physics
Physicists from the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge have created the first two-dimensional version of the Bose glass, a novel phase of matter that challenges statistical mechanics. The details of the study have been published in Nature.
Sep 11, 2024
New classical algorithm enhances understanding of quantum computing’s future
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: computing, engineering, information science, particle physics, quantum physics
In an exciting development for quantum computing, researchers from the University of Chicago’s Department of Computer Science, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, and Argonne National Laboratory have introduced a classical algorithm that simulates Gaussian boson sampling (GBS) experiments.
Sep 11, 2024
Overcoming magnetic disorder: Toward low-energy topological electronics
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: energy, materials
Yet, the current flow along these topologically protected, one-dimensional edges has proven to be far from robust. With the QAHE breaking down in magnetically doped topological insulators at temperatures higher than 1 Kelvin, well below the temperatures predicted by theory.
A new class of materials, known as intrinsic magnetic topological insulators (MTIs), for example MnBi2Te4, possess both non-trivial topology and intrinsic magnetism and are predicted to offer more robust QAHE at higher temperatures than magnetically doped topological insulators.
In MnBi2Te4 it has been shown that the QAHE can survive up to 1.4 K, and interestingly, this can rise to 6.5 K with the application of stabilizing magnetic fields, providing hints at the mechanisms that are driving the breakdown of topological protection.
Sep 11, 2024
Smartphone-based microscope rapidly reconstructs 3D holograms
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: education, holograms, mobile phones
Researchers have developed a new smartphone-based digital holographic microscope that enables precision 3D measurements. The highly portable and inexpensive microscope could help bring 3D measurement capabilities to a broader range of applications, including educational uses and point-of-care diagnostics in resource-limited settings.
Sep 11, 2024
Unique nanodisk pushes photonics research forward
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: biotech/medical, quantum physics
Photonic applications harness the power of light-matter interactions to generate various intriguing phenomena. This has enabled major advances in communications, medicine, and spectroscopy, among others, and is also used in laser and quantum technologies.
Sep 11, 2024
Study suggests that attention networks support changes in cortical organization and cognition during childhood
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: neuroscience
Past neuroscience studies have consistently highlighted the profound changes that the human brain undergoes throughout childhood and adolescence. These efforts have uncovered various stages of development, during which the brain’s organization evolves to support increasingly complex cognitive functions, gradually shifting from a focus on somatosensory/motor and visual processing to more advanced mental capabilities.
These stages of brain development and their underlying neurobiological processes have been closely studied and are now relatively well-understood. In contrast, the contributions of specific functional networks (i.e., interconnected brain regions that collectively serve specific functions) to the brain’s maturation process remain poorly delineated.
Researchers at Yale University, National University of Singapore and Beijing Normal University carried out a study investigating the extent to which individual functional networks contribute to the maturation of the brain and the gradual acquisition of new cognitive abilities before adulthood.