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Ancestral enzyme redesigned with fewer amino acid types reveals new catalytic possibilities
Extrovert Win: The Happiest People Spend Time With Others
Stop trying to create true believers and ostracizing anyone different. It takes a left wing and a right wing for an airplane to fly while having only one makes you Los Angeles or Portland.
Hank Campbell Mon, 10/26/2026 - 14:27 Categories PsychologyBiohybrid Computing: Mini Brain Organoids Read Braille
In a recent study, researchers sent signals from a sensor detecting tactile patterns associated with different Braille letters that were received by brain organoids. Individual organoids were able to correctly decode them 61 percent of the time but three organoids boosted accuracy to 83 percent.
News Sun, 10/25/2026 - 23:03 Categories TechnologyKids Get Into Halloween With These Scary But Suitable Books
Halloween is one of the few holidays centered around children. When else can students come to school dressed like astronauts, monsters and witches, or ring strangers’ doorbells to ask for candy? But of course there’s a darker side to the holiday.
The Conversation Sun, 10/25/2026 - 22:34 Categories PsychologyChemically modified sugars enable direct nanostructure formation: A template-free strategy for nanoporous carbonaceous materials
Blood test can help clinicians better identify brain injury severity in patients
Baby manta rays hunker down close to coasts before facing the open ocean’s dangers
Breaking The Shower Containment Taboo For Hadron Calorimeters
Hadron calorimeters are particle detectors meant to measure the total energy possessed by high-energy subatomic particles that hit their front face and develop a shower of secondary particles inside their volume.
Tommaso Dorigo Wed, 10/21/2026 - 12:37 Categories PhysicsSmart planning of outdoor sports tournaments using environmental heat measurements
Epidemiology Call To Action: German Cats Have Two Fewer Lives Than French
Among some people, a faith vacuum and distrust of AI has led to increased belief in suspect ideas like ghosts and astrology, while in others, a science vacuum has led to increased belief in suspect ideas like epidemiology and correlation.
Hank Campbell Tue, 10/20/2026 - 15:39 Categories Mathematics