Practicing mindfulness with an app may improve children’s mental health
MIT researchers report that children who used a mindfulness app at home for 40 days showed improvements in several aspects of mental health, including reductions in stress and negative emotions such as loneliness and fear.
A new research shows that Artificial Intelligence (AI) can track the health of coral reefs by learning the "song of the reef".
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Research Paper: Enhancing automated analysis of marine soundscapes using ecoacoustic indices and machine learning https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X22004575
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A new approach to quantum light emitters generates a stream of circularly polarized single photons, or particles of light, that may be useful for a range of quantum information and communication applications. A Los Alamos National Laboratory team stacked two different, atomically thin materials to realize this chiral quantum light source.
This achievement is an important step in the direction of quantum cryptography or quantum communication.
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Research Paper: Proximity-induced chiral quantum light generation in strain-engineered WSe2/NiPS3 heterostructures https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-023-01645-7
News Source: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/999554
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As the world builds out ever larger installations of wind and solar power systems, the need is growing fast for economical, large-scale backup systems to provide power when the sun is down and the air is calm. Today’s lithium-ion batteries are still too expensive for most such applications, and other options such as pumped hydro require specific topography that’s not always available.
Now, researchers at MIT and elsewhere have developed a new kind of battery, made entirely from abundant and inexpensive materials, that could help to fill that gap.
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Research Paper: Fast-charging aluminium–chalcogen batteries resistant to dendritic shorting https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04983-9
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DeepMind has created a system called AlphaCode that writes computer programs at a competitive level.
AlphaCode achieved an estimated rank within the top 54% of participants in programming competitions by solving new problems that require a combination of critical thinking, logic, algorithms, coding, and natural language understanding.
AlphaCode uses transformer-based language models to generate code at an unprecedented scale, and then smartly filters to a small set of promising programs.
News Source: https://deepmind.com/blog/article/Competitive-programming-with-AlphaCode
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A research team from Brown University has made a major step toward improving the long-term reliability of perovskite solar cells, an emerging clean energy technology. In a study published in the journal Science, the team demonstrates a “molecular glue” that keeps a key interface inside cells from degrading. The treatment dramatically increases cells’ stability and reliability over time, while also improving the efficiency with which they convert sunlight into electricity.
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Research paper: Interfacial toughening with self-assembled monolayers enhances perovskite solar cell reliability https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6542/618
News Source: https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-05-06/perovskite
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According to a new study published in the peer-reviewed journal Health Communication, People with an obsessive urge to constantly check the news are more likely to suffer from stress, anxiety, as well as physical ill health.
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Research paper: Caught in a Dangerous World: Problematic News Consumption and Its Relationship to Mental and Physical Ill-Being https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10410236.2022.2106086
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MIT engineers have shown that medical devices made from aluminum can be disintegrated within the body by exposing them to gallium-indium, a liquid metal that seeps into the boundaries between the grains of the metal.
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Research paper: Actively-Triggerable Metals via Liquid Metal Embrittlement for Biomedical Applications https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.202208227
News Source: https://news.mit.edu/2022/medical-devices-aluminum-1108
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Google is showing a Doodle in Brazil on May 13, 2022 for celebrating Manfredo Fest's 86th Birthday.
Manfredo Fest was a blind jazz pianist and bandleader who helped create the Brazilian bossa nova movement.
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In a world-first, a study by Monash University, Australia has discovered a pathway to the regeneration of insulin in pancreatic stem cells, a major breakthrough toward new therapies to treat Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes.
Using the pancreas stem cells of type 1 diabetic donor, researchers were able to effectively reactivate them to become insulin-expressing and functionally resemble beta-like cells through the use of a drug which is approved by the US Food and Drug Administration but is not currently licensed for diabetes treatment.
Credit: Monash University
Research Paper: Inhibition of pancreatic EZH2 restores progenitor insulin in T1D donor https://www.nature.com/articles/s41392-022-01034-7
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