giovedì 26 novembre 2020

# life: apropos of ghosts, a bizarre answer to my previous post, the 'cosmic ghost' ...

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<<  They were on a mission to count sheep when they found something they had not counted on. >> Peter Szekely. Reuters: Space od...
giovedì 19 novembre 2020

# life: apropos of unsubstantiated belief (e.g. paranormal belief, anomalistic psychology, ...) why so many people believe in 'ghosts'.

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<< Unlikely as it might seem in the cold light of day, ghosts and hauntings are a mainstream area of belief. Recent studies by YouGov ...
sabato 14 novembre 2020

# chem: photocatalytic hydrogen production activity by single-atom alloy (SAA) cocatalyst

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<< Photocatalysis, converting solar energy into chemical energy, has been recognized to be a very promising solution to current energy...
martedì 10 novembre 2020

# brain: the hypothesis that a brain organoid (a lab-grown brain) can reach consciousness.

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<< In Alysson Muotri’s laboratory, hundreds of miniature human brains, the size of sesame seeds, float in Petri dishes, sparking with ...
sabato 7 novembre 2020

# gst: apropos of nano vortices: the stabilization of skyrmions by weak higher-order exchange interactions

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<< Tiny magnetic whirls that can occur in materials—so-called skyrmions— hold high promises for novel electronic devices or magnetic m...
martedì 3 novembre 2020

# life: the 'built-in float' of an ancient marine predator

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<< About 240 million years ago, when reptiles ruled the ocean, a small lizard-like predator floated near the bottom of the edges in sh...
lunedì 2 novembre 2020

# gst: density fluctuations may exist in an amorphous matrix

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<< Silicon does not have to be crystalline, but can also be produced as an amorphous thin film. In such amorphous films, the atomic st...