by Ingrid Fadelli | Jun 4, 2025 | MEDICALXPRESS, Neuroscience
The mammalian brain is known to produce mental representations of the spatial environment, known as cognitive maps, that help humans and animals navigate their surroundings. A subpopulation of neurons in the CA1 area of the hippocampus, which are referred to as place...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Jun 3, 2025 | Electronics & Semiconductors, Engineering, TECHXPLORE
Over the past decades, electronics engineers have developed a wide range of wearable devices that can be used to track some physiological processes and collect health or fitness-related data. These devices rely on miniature sensors that can pick up different signals,...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Jun 3, 2025 | Astronomy, Astronomy & Space, PHYS.ORG
The detection of dark matter, an elusive form of matter believed to account for most of the universe’s mass, remains a long-standing goal within the physics research community. As this type of matter can only emit, reflect or absorb light very weakly, it cannot...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Jun 2, 2025 | Genetics, MEDICALXPRESS, Psychology & Psychiatry
In psychology, the term subjective well-being (SWB) is used to describe the extent to which different people feel happy and satisfied with their lives. While some studies have found that there is a link between SWB and the diagnosis of some psychiatric disorders, such...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Jun 2, 2025 | Bio & Medicine, nanomaterials, Nanotechnology, PHYS.ORG
Over the past decades, electronics engineers developed increasingly small, flexible and sophisticated sensors that can pick up a wide range of signals, ranging from human motions to heartrate and other biological signals. These sensors have in turn enabled the...
