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• Brain circuit for spirituality?
• Skin in the game: Transformative approach uses the human body to recharge smartwatches
• Understanding potential topological quantum bits
• The first commercially scalable integrated laser and microcomb on a single chip
• From meadow to plate: The cultured meat that replaces animals with grass
• Novel microscopy method provides look into future of cell biology
• Physicists observationally confirm Hawking's black hole theorem for the first time
• Why are some fish warm-blooded? Predatory sharks gain speed advantage, study finds
• Conservation concern as alien aphid detected on Kangaroo Island
• The sense of smell in older adults declines when it comes to meat, but not vanilla, researchers find
• Molecular 'speed bump' adds function to new generation of printed objects
• Engineered yeast probiotic developed to treat inflammatory bowel disease

Brain circuit for spirituality? Posted: 01 Jul 2021 04:52 PM PDT Using datasets from neurosurgical patients and those with brain lesions, researchers mapped lesion locations associated with spiritual and religious belief to a specific human brain circuit.

Skin in the game: Transformative approach uses the human body to recharge smartwatches Posted: 01 Jul 2021 04:52 PM PDT As smart watches are increasingly able to monitor the vital signs of health, including what's going on when we sleep, a problem has emerged: those wearable, wireless devices are often disconnected from our body overnight, being charged at the bedside.

Understanding potential topological quantum bits Posted: 01 Jul 2021 11:09 AM PDT Scientists have been looking for half an electron as a basis for a quantum computer. They investigated a promising experimental setup just to find that the signals they measured were not telling the truth.

The first commercially scalable integrated laser and microcomb on a single chip Posted: 01 Jul 2021 11:09 AM PDT Fifteen years ago, an electrical and materials professor pioneered a method for integrating a laser onto a silicon wafer. The technology has since been widely deployed in combination with other silicon photonics devices to replace the copper-wire interconnects that formerly linked servers at data centers, dramatically increasing energy efficiency -- an important endeavor at a time when data traffic is growing by roughly 25% per year. Now there is a new laser breakthrough.

From meadow to plate: The cultured meat that replaces animals with grass Posted: 01 Jul 2021 10:49 AM PDT An affordable lab system uses grass blades to turn cells into cultured meat, by creating a scaffold that animal stem cells can attach to and grow on.

Novel microscopy method provides look into future of cell biology Posted: 01 Jul 2021 10:49 AM PDT What if a microscope allowed us to explore the 3D microcosm of blood vessels, nerves, and cancer cells instantaneously in virtual reality? What if it could provide views from multiple directions in real time without physically moving the specimen and worked up to 100 times faster than current technology?

Physicists observationally confirm Hawking's black hole theorem for the first time Posted: 01 Jul 2021 08:27 AM PDT Physicists have used gravitational waves to observationally confirm Hawking's black hole theorem.

Why are some fish warm-blooded? Predatory sharks gain speed advantage, study finds Posted: 01 Jul 2021 08:27 AM PDT New research from marine biologists offers answers to a fundamental puzzle that had until now remained unsolved: why are some fish warm-blooded when most are not? It turns out that while (warm-blooded) fish able to regulate their own body temperatures can swim faster, they do not live in waters spanning a broader range of temperatures.

Conservation concern as alien aphid detected on Kangaroo Island Posted: 01 Jul 2021 08:26 AM PDT An invasive species of aphid could put some threatened plant species on Kangaroo Island at risk. Researchers confirm Australia's first sighting of the aphid on the island's Dudley Peninsula.

The sense of smell in older adults declines when it comes to meat, but not vanilla, researchers find Posted: 01 Jul 2021 08:26 AM PDT Contrary to what science once suggested, older people with a declining sense of smell do not have comprehensively dampened olfactory ability for odors in general -- it simply depends upon the type of odor. Researchers reached this conclusion after examining a large group of older Danes' and their intensity perception of common food odors.

Molecular 'speed bump' adds function to new generation of printed objects Posted: 29 Jun 2021 11:43 AM PDT A process that uses heat to change the arrangement of molecular rings on a chemical chain creates 3D-printable gels with a variety of functional properties.

Engineered yeast probiotic developed to treat inflammatory bowel disease Posted: 28 Jun 2021 08:41 AM PDT Designed from the yeast used to make beer, 'Y-bots' can target inflammation, tissue scarring and disturbances in the balance of microbes living in the gut.

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