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Lexical alignment: the art of speaking in sync and how our brain copes with it

Lexical alignment: the art of speaking in sync and how our brain copes with it

Neurolinguistics

By Invited Researcher

Have you ever found yourself spending five minutes talking to someone and suddenly using their words instead of your own? Say, for example, that you usually say “couch” but now suddenly you call it “sofa.” You say “TV,” but suddenly it’s “the telly.” You’ve never in your life referred to dinner as “tea” but after […]

MI weekly selection #599

MI weekly selection #599

Weekly Selection

By César Tomé

Magma chambers influence composition of Mars’ crust A study explores the history of magma chambers on Mars, revealing how these chambers evolve over time. Numerical modelling indicates that early Mars had higher temperatures, allowing upper crustal chambers to last longer, feeding surface eruptions. Full Story: Eos Complete ape genomes offer insights into human evolution Researchers […]

Under the cosmic microscope: JWST reveals dozens of distant stars in a single galaxy

Under the cosmic microscope: JWST reveals dozens of distant stars in a single galaxy

DIPC Astrophysics

By DIPC

A quiet revolution is unfolding in the study of distant galaxies, one that lets astronomers pinpoint individual stars across the vast gulfs of time and space. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a team of researchers has identified over 40 individual stars in a single galaxy located halfway across the observable universe. These stars […]

First video of catalysis in action at the atomic level

First video of catalysis in action at the atomic level

CatalysisChemistry

By Mapping Ignorance

An international team of scientists has, for the first time, directly observed catalysis in-action at the atomic level. In mesmerizing new videos, single atoms move and shake during a chemical reaction that removes hydrogen atoms from an alcohol molecule. By viewing the process in real time, the researchers discovered several short-lived intermediate molecules involved in […]

MI weekly selection #598

MI weekly selection #598

Weekly Selection

By César Tomé

Salt may play key role in Martian mudflow formation A study in Communications Earth and Environment suggests that salt could explain how mudflows form on Mars despite the planet’s thin atmosphere. Researchers conducted experiments in Mars-like conditions, finding that salt lowers the freezing point of water, allowing mud to flow longer. Full Story: Eos Underwater […]

Quantum worlds from scratch: Synthetic matter in nonstandard geometries

Quantum worlds from scratch: Synthetic matter in nonstandard geometries

Condensed matterDIPC Quantum Systems

By DIPC

Quantum simulation, a concept that once seemed like science fiction, is now revolutionizing the way physicists study the quantum world. The idea, famously suggested by Richard Feynman in the 1980s, is to use a controllable quantum system to mimic the behaviour of another system that is too complex to study directly. Over time, researchers have […]

Nanoscopic motor proteins in the brain build the physical structures of memory

Nanoscopic motor proteins in the brain build the physical structures of memory

NeurobiologyNeuroscience

By Invited Researcher

Author: Albert HiuKa Fok, Postdoctoral Fellow in Neuroscience, McGill University The puzzle of memory has intrigued philosophers and intellects for a very long time. Plato and Aristotle believed that memory was found only in the realm of the soul and the mind, but there was nothing corporeal or physical about it. Memory is closely tied […]

Methane detected in the atmosphere of the nearest T dwarf

Methane detected in the atmosphere of the nearest T dwarf

Astronomy

By Mapping Ignorance

Using the 10.4-m Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), astronomers have detected methane in the atmosphere of WISEA J181006.18−101000.5—the closest T dwarf to Earth. Brown dwarfs are intermediate objects between planets and stars. Astronomers generally agree that they are substellar objects occupying the mass range between 13 and 80 Jupiter masses. One subclass of brown dwarfs (with […]