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The international team led by Johns Hopkins University and the University of Cambridge produced a breathtakingly detailed diagram tracing every neural connection in the brain of a larval fruit fly, an archetypal scientific model with brains comparable to humans.
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Looking for a powerful tool to help you find and retrieve hidden items quickly and accurately? Meet X-AR, the revolutionary augmented reality headset developed by MIT researchers with support from the NSF. This cutting-edge system uses RF signals to provide wearers with X-ray-like vision, making it possible to locate hidden items labeled with RFID tags up to 15 feet away. And unlike other AR headsets, which only show users things that are already there or completely virtual, X-AR reveals things that are otherwise hidden in the environment.
The system has a range of real-world applications, from supply chains and manufacturing to retail stores and beyond. In fact, in tests in a mock warehouse environment, X-AR achieved optimal accuracy, localizing RFID tags with three inches of precision and correctly identifying if a person had picked up an RFID-tagged item with 95% accuracy.
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The system has a range of real-world applications, from supply chains and manufacturing to retail stores and beyond. In fact, in tests in a mock warehouse environment, X-AR achieved optimal accuracy, localizing RFID tags with three inches of precision and correctly identifying if a person had picked up an RFID-tagged item with 95% accuracy.
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The Antarctic continental shelf is one of the most remote and understudied marine ecosystems on earth. The seafloor here is teeming with invertebrate life: worm species large and small, microscopic mollusks, sea spiders, sea stars, and sea cucumbers (oh my!), all coexisting together on the vast muddy bottom.
Most invertebrates in the Southern Ocean are unknown to science, and every expedition uncovers troves of new species and unique body types. Using new DNA sequencing technologies, scientists are also trying to piece together the unique evolutionary history of Antarctic ecosystems and understand how polar invertebrates may be related to species in other ocean regions.
Join a "dream team" of invertebrate taxonomists and evolutionary biologists searching for new species around Eastern Antarctica. They'll give you a quick tour of their deep-sea research ship, answer your questions about their work, and more on March 6 at 1pm ET.
You can also learn more about the research team before the event at hollybik.com/research.
Peggy Giordano has studied cognitive transformation and the dynamics of desistance for many years. Her work at Bowling Green State University in Ohio led to a 2021 Stockholm Prize in Criminology. We’ll hear about her study that follows subjects from adolescence into adulthood looking at social influences on the long-term cessation of violence, including the effects of intimate partner and family dynamics, and what behavioral changes are needed for successful cessation to occur.
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Harnessing the power of AI, researchers calculate our brain's age leading to earlier detection of Alzheimer's and other cognitive diseases.
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Peggy Giordano has studied cognitive transformation and the dynamics of desistance for many years. Her work at Bowling Green State University in Ohio led to a 2021 Stockholm Prize in Criminology. We’ll hear about her study that follows subjects from adolescence into adulthood looking at social influences on the long-term cessation of violence, including the effects of intimate partner and family dynamics, and what behavioral changes are needed for successful cessation to occur.
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Researchers at USC have developed a new artificial intelligence model that more accurately captures brain age. This study could result in earlier detection of Alzheimer's and other cognitive diseases and provide important information about how quickly our brains age.
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The video game and television adaptation, The Last of Us, has created a lot of interest in the parasitic fungi Ophiocordyceps. We're joined by Charissa De Bekker, assistant professor of biology at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, to learn about the different kinds of Cordyceps, her experience studying their parasitic relationship with ants, and the zombie-like behavior that is exhibited as the fungus develops.
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The video game and television adaptation, The Last of Us, has created a lot of interest in the parasitic fungi Ophiocordyceps. We're joined by Charissa De Bekker, assistant professor of biology at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, to learn about the different kinds of Cordyceps, her experience studying their parasitic relationship with ants, and the zombie-like behavior that is exhibited as the fungus develops.
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The video game and television adaptation, The Last of Us, has created a lot of interest in the parasitic fungi Ophiocordyceps. We're joined by Charissa De Bekker, assistant professor of biology at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, to learn about the different kinds of Cordyceps, her experience studying their parasitic relationship with ants, and the zombie-like behavior that is exhibited as the fungus develops.
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The video game and television adaptation, The Last of Us, has created a lot of interest in the parasitic fungi Ophiocordyceps. We're joined by Charissa De Bekker, assistant professor of biology at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, to learn about the different kinds of Cordyceps, her experience studying their parasitic relationship with ants, and the zombie-like behavior that is exhibited as the fungus develops.
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Micro Robots are a revolutionary new technology that could change how we interact with the world around us. For the first time, a collaborative research team of electrical and computer engineers , with support from NSF, has installed electronic brains on solar-powered microbots the size of a human hair. One of the biggest challenges is their small size-requiring external control, such as a computer or smartphone, limiting their range and making the bots difficult to manipulate remotely until now.
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The video game and television adaptation, The Last of Us, has created a lot of interest in the parasitic fungi Ophiocordyceps. We're joined by Charissa De Bekker, assistant professor of biology at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, to learn about the different kinds of Cordyceps, her experience studying their parasitic relationship with ants, and the zombie-like behavior that is exhibited as the fungus develops.
#Cordyceps #Fungi #Infections #HostInsects #Mycelium #Phallus #Mushrooms #Ecosystem #Autonomy #EndOfTheWorld #NonVertebrateHost #HumanAutonomy #ChemicalWarfare #MicrobialWorld #Fascinating #Fundamental #DecomposingDeadMatter #EnrichedOrganicEnvironment #Symbiotic #DeadMatterSoil #Imagination #TheLastOfUs
Micro Robots are a revolutionary new technology that could change how we interact with the world around us. For the first time, a collaborative research team of electrical and computer engineers , with support from NSF, has installed electronic brains on solar-powered microbots the size of a human hair. One of the biggest challenges is their small size-requiring external control, such as a computer or smartphone, limiting their range and making the bots difficult to manipulate remotely until now.
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How did the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) spot 6 galaxies that shouldn't exist? Dr. Joe Pesce, an astrophysicist with the National Science Foundation, explains how we're in the discovery-phase of space exploration using these new astronomical tools.
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How did the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) spot 6 galaxies that shouldn't exist? Dr. Joe Pesce, an astrophysicist with the National Science Foundation, explains how we're in the discovery-phase of space exploration using these new astronomical tools.
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Following the success and interest in cordyceps and fungal infection spurred by the hit television series "The Last of Us," Dr. Mamta Rawat, a microbiologist with the U.S. National Science Foundation, delves into the worlds of fungal and bacterial infections.
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How did the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) spot 6 galaxies that shouldn't exist? Dr. Joe Pesce, an astrophysicist with the National Science Foundation, explains how we're in the discovery-phase of space exploration using these new astronomical tools.
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Following the success and interest in cordyceps and fungal infection spurred by the hit television series "The Last of Us," Dr. Mamta Rawat, a microbiologist with the U.S. National Science Foundation, delves into the worlds of fungal and bacterial infections.
#Cordyceps #Fungi #Infections #HostInsects #Mycelium #Phallus #Mushrooms #Ecosystem #Autonomy #EndOfTheWorld #NonVertebrateHost #HumanAutonomy #ChemicalWarfare #MicrobialWorld #Fascinating #Fundamental #DecomposingDeadMatter #EnrichedOrganicEnvironment #Symbiotic #DeadMatterSoil #Imagination #TheLastOfUs
How did the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) spot 6 galaxies that shouldn't exist? Dr. Joe Pesce, an astrophysicist with the National Science Foundation, explains how we're in the discovery-phase of space exploration using these new astronomical tools.
#shorts #short #jwst #jameswebbspacetelescope #new #galaxy #space #discovery #jameswebb #jameswebbtelescope #universe #cosmos #cosmic #nsf #telescope #blackhole #galaxies
How did the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) spot 6 galaxies that shouldn't exist? Dr. Joe Pesce, an astrophysicist with the National Science Foundation, explains how we're in the discovery-phase of space exploration using these new astronomical tools.
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How did the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) spot 6 galaxies that shouldn't exist? Dr. Joe Pesce, an astrophysicist with the National Science Foundation, explains how we're in the discovery-phase of space exploration using these new astronomical tools.
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What is it? Are first responders altruistic? Are other creatures capable of altruism? If it's on the internet, is it performative? Two NSF-supported researchers, Abigail Marsh and Joshua Greene, discuss altruism.
What is it? Are first responders altruistic? Are other creatures capable of altruism? If it's on the internet, is it performative? Two NSF-supported researchers, Abigail Marsh and Joshua Greene, discuss altruism.
In the U.S., over 1.3 billion tons of waste are created every year. What if this waste could be transformed into something… useful? A team of researchers are looking at ways to use food waste to make a renewable and more affordable fuel alternative to oil-based diesel.
Engineers borrow from nature to create the first-ever, plant-inspired soft robots that grow like plants.
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beta.nsf.gov/news/autonomous-crawling-soft-ringbots-can-navigate
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Blast Disease is caused by a fungus called Magnaporthe Oryzae, which attacks and kills rice plants around the globe. With support from NSF, biochemists from University of California, Berkeley have discovered that the fungus secretes an the enzyme abbreviated PMO, that punches holes in the tough outer layer of rice leaves. Once inside, the fungus grows until it kills the plant.
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The fossil fuels- including coal, oil, and natural gas we rely on daily release harmful greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Finding a safe, efficient, cheap alternative is challenging, but hydrogen may be the answer.
In the realm of quantum sciences, things can get unusual very quickly. From scales big and small, to matters involving complex concepts of teleportation and entanglement. But what is quantum? What can you do with it? Do the movies get it right? We set out to answer some of these questions with quantum physicist Dr. Spiros Michalakis, a staff researcher and Manager of Outreach at the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter at Caltech, a National Science Foundation Physics Frontiers Center.
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In the realm of quantum sciences, things can get unusual very quickly. From scales big and small, to matters involving complex concepts of teleportation and entanglement. But what is quantum? What can you do with it? Do the movies get it right? We set out to answer some of these questions with quantum physicist Dr. Spiros Michalakis, a staff researcher and Manager of Outreach at the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter at Caltech, a National Science Foundation Physics Frontiers Center.
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