New fMRI evidence shows that the brain’s hand and lip maps remain stable years after amputation, reshaping our understanding of neuroplasticity and guiding future prosthetic and rehabilitation strategies.
Study: Stable cortical…
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Shadow Realm at Black Hole’s Edge Simulated For The First Time : ScienceAlert
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) established a reputation worldwide in 2019 when it released the first-ever image of a black hole. This was made possible by the science of Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), a technique in which…
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How can we make nature’s wellbeing impossible to ignore? For Natalie Kyriacou, it is the defining challenge
- Natalie Kyriacou’s path to conservation began not in academia or government, but in childhood curiosity and persistence, leading her to found My Green World, a nonprofit that uses education and technology to…
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In eastern Congo’s war-torn forests, Augustin Basabose gave hope to gorillas and people
- Dr. Augustin Kanyunyi Basabose, who died on August 18th, 2025, was a pioneering Congolese primatologist whose optimism and energy inspired colleagues and communities alike.
- He founded Primate Expertise (PEx), which…
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Development of an alcohol biosensor non-wear algorithm: laboratory-based machine learning and field-based deployment
Methods: laboratory study
Participants
Biosensor readings were collected during laboratory sessions from 36 participants (Table 1) enrolled in a larger investigation of subjective and objective responses to a fixed-dose oral alcohol challenge and…
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Reduced function in Chamaenerion angustifolium after sublethal glyphosate exposure
We conducted a greenhouse experiment with fireweed at the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC). We also collected fireweed plants, for study and testing, from operationally managed forests during field outings in 2021 and 2022.
Growth…
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Focal neuropathologies in the brain of COVID-19-infected humans: inflammation, primary gliovascular failure and microglial dysfunction
Dénes and his co-workers recently published a paper in Nature Neuroscience, documenting that neurological abnormalities in COVID are based on microglial dysfunction in the brain.1 In case of acute…
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Dual roles and therapeutic targeting of tumor-associated macrophages in tumor microenvironments
Biswas, S. K., Allavena, P. & Mantovani, A. Tumor-associated macrophages: functional diversity, clinical significance, and open questions. Semin. Immunopathol. 35, 585–600 (2013).
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Deep dictionary learning with reconstruction for texture recognition
Experimental setting
To validate our method, we utilized the LMT-108 dataset46 containing 108 different objects which are divided into 9 categories: 1) Meshes; 2) Stones; 3) Glossy; 4) Wood Types; 5) Rubbers; 6) Fibers; 7) Foams; 8) Foils and…
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Data-driven frameworks to robustly predict solubility parameter of diverse polymers
Convolutional neural network
A Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is a type of deep learning algorithm tailored to handle structured data, including images and time-series data. These networks excel in visual computing applications, like object…
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