Zeroing in on a Fundamental Property of the Proton’s Internal Dynamics

The Science Inside the proton are elementary particles called quarks. Quarks and protons have an intrinsic angular momentum called spin. Spin can point in different directions. When it is perpendicular…

Spread Happiness: Sharing Positive Emotions Can Help Combat Loneliness and Negativity

Summary: A new study suggests that sharing positive feelings with others may ease loneliness-based negativity, which can contribute to psychological issues and physical health problems. Researchers at the University of…

Children and Adults Process Social Interactions Differently: Study Reveals Key Differences in Brain Activation

Summary: A new study found brain differences between adults and children that potentially explain developmental differences in social interaction understanding. The study showed that children and adults might employ different…

Robotic seal’s gait may be graceless, but it could help save lives

(A) Bioinspiration from pinnipeds (i.e., seals, sea lions, and walruses) that use fore flippers and body (or hind flipper) for terrestrial locomotion. (B) Pinniped robot in an unactuated pose. Credit:…

Zhurong rover finds evidence of water at low latitudes on modern Mars

(a) Topographic contour map of the environs where the trace is located. The coordinate system is east-north-up (ENU) local Cartesian coordinate and the origin is that of the rover coordinate…

Research shows coaches who lead with empathy get more out of athletes

Credit: Routledge Gone are the days of dictatorial leaders in sport, screaming from the side-lines and insulting their players, and instead we are seeing an era of emotionally intelligent leaders…

Brain differences suggest that children and adults use different strategies to understand social interactions

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Understanding the meaning of social interactions is an important human ability that relies on deciphering different kinds of social information. For example, perceiving body and face…

Solving computationally complex problems with probabilistic computing

Flowchart and schematic of a probabilistic (p-bit) stochastic nanomagnet network for scalable, energy-efficient computing of combinatorial optimization problems: a giant spin Hall effect (GSHE) layer converts input voltage into a…

Mortality high for patients with concurrent TB, COVID-19

Patients with concurrent tuberculosis (TB) and COVID-19 have a high risk for death, according to a study published online April 26 in PLOS Global Public Health. Alice V. Easton, Ph.D.,…

A feature selection method for text categorization

Credit: Petr Kratochvil/public domain For text categorization, it is necessary to select a set of features (terms) with high discrimination by using feature selection. In text feature selection, Accuracy2 (ACC2)…