New technique developed by Brookhaven Lab scientists rapidly creates multi-layered, self-assembled grids with fully customizable shapes and compositions.
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It’s hard to pin down exactly what makes us remember things. When you see an image, what makes you decide you’ve seen it before? A new study has tackled this question, identifying a group of neurons that participate in the process of identifying images as familiar.
While this may seem counterintuitive—it probably feels like you either recognize something automatically or you don’t—your brain makes that determination using different aspects of your memory. “Determining whether a stimulus is novel or familiar is a complex decision involving the comparison of sensory information with internal variables,” the authors explain in their paper.
When your brain makes a decision, it's often accompanied by an assessment of how accurate that decision is. Was I right to buy that car? My brain would consider a number of factors—the driving experience, the gas mileage, and so on—before concluding it’s pretty likely I’m making the right decision. (Just an example; alas, there’s no shiny new car for my brain to assess). These confidence values are an essential part of the decision-making process, at least for humans, as it helps us navigate our complex environment.
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A newly-designed material, which mimics the wing structure of owls, could help make wind turbines, computer fans and
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A new technique which enables researchers to visualise the activity of individual ions inside battery-like devices called supercapacitors,
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It may become significantly easier to design electronic components in future. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for
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They’re our best four-legged friends, and they’re the stars of many an Internet video. No, not cats. In
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Researchers at University of Illinois have created a new inexpensive and simple way to produce carbon nanoparticles. They
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3D printer started a manufacturing revolution and is still advancing rapidly. There are robots printing steal bridges, printers
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Researchers have found an easy way to produce carbon nanoparticles that are small enough to evade the body’s
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If you put two ordinary electrical insulators into contact with each other you get – an insulator. Hardly
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For the past three years, Associate Professor Wei-Dong Guo, from UOW’s Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences (EIS),
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The materials in most of today’s residential rooftop solar panels can store energy from the sun for only
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Peter Rohde and his collaborators develop big ideas – and a measure of corny humour – using photons,
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High in the sky where the cirrus ice crystal clouds form, jet contrails draw their crisscross patterns. Now
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