by Ingrid Fadelli | Apr 23, 2023 | Energy & Green Tech, TECHXPLORE
In recent years, researchers have been trying to create increasingly efficient solar technologies and more sustainable battery designs. Among emerging sustainable energy solutions are solar batteries, systems that can store the energy collected by solar cells or...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Apr 23, 2023 | Electronics & Semiconductors, Hi Tech & Innovation, TECHXPLORE
Countless hardware and software solutions created over the past decades draw inspiration from animals and natural phenomena. This includes electronic skins (e-skins), flexible and stretchable electronic circuits designed to replicate the human sense of touch or...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Apr 23, 2023 | MEDICALXPRESS, Neuroscience
Over the past decade or so, social scientists have been trying to understand how social networks can influence people’s beliefs and behavior. Despite the many studies on this topic, currently very little is known about how the human brain makes decisions in...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Apr 23, 2023 | PHYS.ORG, Physics, Quantum Physics
Researchers at University of Oxford have recently created a quantum memory within a trapped-ion quantum network node. Their unique memory design, introduced in a paper in Physical Review Letters, has been found to be extremely robust, meaning that it could store...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Apr 23, 2023 | Alzheimer's disease & dementia, MEDICALXPRESS, Neuroscience
Microglia are primary immune cells that safeguard the mammalian brain, partly by devouring or ‘phagocytosing’ pathogens and toxic debris. Recent genetic studies have consistently highlighted the role of microglia in the development of Alzheimer’s...
