A new comprehensive literature review of the benefits and challenges of integrating haptics-enhanced virtual reality training, or VR-haptics for short, in dental education curricula highlights the transformative potential of VR-haptics in dental…
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CMS Experiment Searches for Higgs Boson Pair Production in Proton-Proton Collisions
Using data from high-energy proton-proton collisions in Run 2 of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), physicists with the CMS Collaboration have released its latest search for the production of Higgs boson pairs, known as di-Higgs, and…
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Meet H. Stan Thompson, the Man Who Coined the Term “Hydrail”
IEEE Life Senior Member H. Stan Thompson has lived a couple of professional lives. For decades, he was a planning engineer and futurist at Bellsouth Telecommunications, which was formed from the merger of two Regional Bell Operating Companies…
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Scientists Identify Genetic Variants that Determine Tooth Shape
One of these genetic variants was inherited from Neanderthals, according to a study led by University College London researchers.
El Sidron Neanderthals taste wild mushrooms, pine nuts and forest moss. Image credit: Abel Grau, CSIC…
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Physicists ‘bootstrap’ validity of string theory
String theory, conceptualized more than 50 years ago as a framework to explain the formation of matter, remains elusive as a “provable” phenomenon. But a team of physicists has now taken a significant step forward in validating string theory by…
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String figures shed light on cultural connections and the roots of mathematical reasoning
New research suggests that the making of string figures, a globally documented practice, may point to shared cultural heritage stretching back millennia. The research offers a new way to investigate the evolution and distribution of cultural…
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Being digitally hyperconnected causes ‘techno-strain’ for employees
A new study has shown that employees are experiencing mental and physical techno-strain due to being ‘hyperconnected’ to digital technology making it difficult for people to switch off from work.
Researchers from the University of Nottingham’s…
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Archaeology’s top discoveries of 2024 include preserved brains and a lost city
Grisly details about ancient child sacrifices, a map of a lost city in the Amazon and the answer to a Stonehenge mystery are some of this year’s insights into human history.
Bygone brains
Discovering a human brain at an…
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Sheep earwax can record a dangerous diet
A bit of ear goop can reveal if sheep are eating dangerously poisonous plants.
Earwax from sheep that have eaten death camas contains the plants’ toxins within a few days following the noxious meal, researchers report in the…
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Self-Assembly Trick Makes Transistors and Diodes
Using liquid metal, scientists have devised a new way to make electronics that assemble themselves. With prototypes including nanoscale to microscale transistors and diodes, the researchers suggest their research might help greatly simplify…
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