The Solid State and Materials Research Group has come up with a lithium ion capacitor using electrodes produced from wood particles that are discarded as waste in sawmills. This biomass is very easily available across the Basque Country, and…
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How many languages can you learn at the same time? — Ghanaian babies grow up speaking two to six languages
Africa is a multilingual continent and many adults speak several languages fluently. An empirical study by a research team led by the Potsdam psycholinguists Prof. Dr. Natalie Boll-Avetisyan and Paul O. Omane now shows that the roots of this…
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Research indicates effects of PTSD on body vary by culture
According to the World Health Organization, about 3.9% of the world’s population has had post-traumatic stress disorder at some point during their lives. That number is higher in the United States, at about 6%.
PTSD can happen to an individual…
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Some of Earth’s meteors are probably coming all the way from a neighboring star system
Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to the sun, is probably shedding comets and asteroids into our solar system — and even producing a few meteors in our sky.
Located just 4.3 light-years from Earth, Alpha Centauri consists of…
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Do Genes or Environmental Factors Have a Bigger Impact on Health?
Scientists have used data from almost half a million people in the UK Biobank to investigate an old question – is nature (or our genes), or nurture (environmental factors) a greater contributor to our health…
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Bamboo-Derived microRNAs May Be behind Giant Pandas’ Plant-Based Diet
Giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) belong to the order Carnivora, but they mainly feed on bamboo, and their unique dietary adaptability has always been the focus of research. Recent studies indicate that plant-derived microRNAs (miRNAs) can…
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Collaborating to advance research and innovation on essential chips for AI | MIT News
The following is a joint announcement from the MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories and GlobalFoundries.
MIT and GlobalFoundries (GF), a leading manufacturer of essential semiconductors, have announced a new research…
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Accidental discovery depolymerises commercial plexiglass | Research
A new process for chemically recycling commercially available polymethacrylates under visible light has been discovered serendipitously by chemists in Switzerland. The researchers demonstrated that the process, which does not require specially…
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Cryptic chemistry crossword #075
The mysteries of the universe may take ages to unravel, but the mysteries of this cryptic chemistry crossword can be solved in just a short time!
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Chemistry wordoku #083 | Puzzle
Solve this ‘wordoku’ in the same way as a sudoku with letters instead of numbers (each of the nine letters in each row, column and nine-square cell). Once solved, one of the overall diagonals can be rearranged into the name of a dyestuff that…
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