Twice the quality with streamlined processes

Solid electrolyte powder (left) produced by KERI’s wet-synthesis process and a prototype of an all-solid-state battery using it. Credit: Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute (KERI) has reached…

Unlocking Potential: A Short Course Boosts Grit and Self-Belief

Summary: A novel method offers a promising approach to enhancing grit and self-belief. Through a pilot study involving 38 Norwegian students, this method, encapsulated in a 35-40 minute online course…

Associations of remnant cholesterol with cardiovascular and cancer mortality in the ChinaHEART cohort

Researchers used restricted cubic splines with three predefined knots in competing risk analysis models to evaluate the non-linearity association of remnant cholesterol on a continuous scale and the risk of…

Astrophysicist’s research could provide a hint in the search for dark matter

Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Coe (NASA JPL/Caltech and STScI) Dark matter is one of science’s greatest mysteries. It doesn’t absorb, reflect or emit light, so we can’t see it.…

What you need to know about audio deepfakes

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Audio deepfakes have had a recent bout of bad press after an AI-generated robocall purporting to be the voice of Joe Biden hit up New Hampshire…

A method to accurately center quantum dots within photonic chips

Accurate alignment of quantum dots with photonic components is critical for extracting the radiation emitted by the dots. In this illustration, a quantum dot centered in the optical “hotspot” of…

How much stress is too much? A psychiatrist explains the links between toxic stress and poor health − and how to get help

COVID-19 taught most people that the line between tolerable and toxic stress – defined as persistent demands that lead to disease – varies widely. But some people will age faster…

Apple, Google Talks Could Bring Gemini AI to the iPhone

Apple and Google are huddling over a potential deal to bring the search king’s Gemini generative AI offerings to the iPhone. The negotiations, first reported by Bloomberg on Monday, aim…

Root diversity in grasslands buffers biomass production under drought – Functional Ecologists

In this post, Lina Aoyama, a PhD student at the University of Oregon, discusses their research “Functional diversity buffers biomass production across variable rainfall conditions through different processes above- versus…

Self-organizing robotic aggregate design inspired by flowing and rigid behaviors of sandpiles

Red arrows represent the actuated magnets’ direction of rotation. Blue arrows represent Granulobots in the process of reconfiguration. (A) Individual Granulobot units can roll and attach magnetically into larger assemblies,…