by Ingrid Fadelli | Jan 14, 2025 | MEDICALXPRESS, Neuroscience
The motor cortex is a part of the mammalian brain and is known to support the planning and control of voluntary body movements. Some past neuroscience studies, however, found that the motor cortex may not be necessary for executing some learned skills and motor...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Jan 14, 2025 | Condensed Matter, PHYS.ORG, Physics, Quantum Physics
Perovskites, materials with a crystal structure that mirrors that of the mineral calcium titanate CaTiO₃, exhibit properties that are advantageous for developing various technologies. For instance, they have proved promising for designing photovoltaic (PV) systems and...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Jan 14, 2025 | Electronics & Semiconductors, Engineering, TECHXPLORE
The manipulation of mechanical strain in materials, also known as strain engineering, has allowed engineers to advance electronics over the past decades, for instance enhancing the mobility of charge carriers in devices. Over the past few years, some studies have...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Jan 14, 2025 | Machine learning & AI, Robotics, TECHXPLORE
One of the most promising approaches to teaching robots how to complete manual tasks such as cleaning dishes or preparing food is known as imitation learning. End-to-end imitation learning typically entails training a deep learning algorithm on raw videos, images...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Jan 14, 2025 | PHYS.ORG, Physics, Soft Matter
Vorticity, a measure of the local rotation or swirling motion in a fluid, has long been studied by physicists and mathematicians. The dynamics of vorticity is governed by the famed Navier-Stokes equations, which tell us that vorticity is produced by the passage of...
