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- Personality traits linked to toilet paper stockpiling
- Unlocking PNA's superpowers for self-assembling nanostructures
- Artificial intelligence makes blurry faces look more than 60 times sharper
- A new character for Pokémon? Novel endemic dogfish shark species discovered from Japan
- Will lockdown loneliness make us loners?
- First systematic report on the tug-of-war between DNA damage and repair
| Personality traits linked to toilet paper stockpiling Posted: 12 Jun 2020 02:22 PM PDT People who feel more threatened by COVID-19 and rank highly on scales of emotionality and conscientiousness were most likely to stockpile toilet paper in March 2020, according to a new study. |
| Unlocking PNA's superpowers for self-assembling nanostructures Posted: 12 Jun 2020 08:14 AM PDT Researchers have developed a method for self-assembling nanostructures with gamma-modified peptide nucleic acid, a synthetic mimic of DNA. The process has the potential to impact nanomanufacturing and future biomedical technologies like targeted diagnostics and drug delivery. |
| Artificial intelligence makes blurry faces look more than 60 times sharper Posted: 12 Jun 2020 08:14 AM PDT Researchers have developed an AI tool that can turn blurry faces into eerily convincing computer-generated portraits, in finer detail than ever before. Previous methods can scale an image to eight times its original resolution. But a team has come up with a way to take a handful of pixels and create realistic-looking faces with up to 64 times the resolution, 'imagining' features such as eyelashes and stubble that weren't there in the first place. |
| A new character for Pokémon? Novel endemic dogfish shark species discovered from Japan Posted: 11 Jun 2020 08:45 AM PDT A new endemic deep-water dogfish shark: Squalus shiraii, was discovered in the tropical waters of Southern Japan by an international team of scientists. The finding brings the amount of spurdogs shark species inhabiting Japanese waters to six. |
| Will lockdown loneliness make us loners? Posted: 10 Jun 2020 08:20 AM PDT Loneliness affects both mental and physical health, but counterintuitively it can also result in a decreased desire for social interaction. To understand the mechanics of this paradox, researchers investigated social behavior in zebrafish. |
| First systematic report on the tug-of-war between DNA damage and repair Posted: 08 Jun 2020 07:47 AM PDT Scientists have screened almost 163,000 DNA mutations in 2,700 C. elegans roundworms to shed light on DNA damage. The results, published in Nature Communications, lead to the conclusion that mutation patterns seen in cancer are more complicated than we previously thought. |
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