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Decoding Smell: The Future of Odor Mapping with AI and Molecular Chemistry
New advances in artificial intelligence, combined with growing chemical knowledge, are uncovering a more accurate way to predict smells based on molecular structure.
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A Double-Edged Sword: The Blood-Brain Barrier
In 2024, while the BBB still poses a threat to targeted drug therapies, translational scientists have found ways to harness the unique chemistry of the brain to design medicines capable of permeating the barrier.
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Mother Tree Hypothesis: The Power of a Mother’s Love or Wishful Personification?
The Mother Tree Hypothesis suggests that the largest, oldest trees — the Mother Trees — are the lifeblood of the forest, quietly ensuring the ecosystem’s survival through a network beneath our feet.
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From Giants to Jellyfish: The Evolution of Sleep Across Species
By mapping the evolutionary relationships across the tree of life, we can excavate the underpinnings of sleep across all animals.
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The Menstrual Conundrum
Recent research has shown that periods actually play a critical role in both protecting and preserving a woman’s body and resources.
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Traversing Tumors: How Single-cell RNA Sequencing Maps Malignant Tumors
It is difficult for scientists to find solutions for harmful mutations, as while mutations are inevitable and not entirely random, they’re notoriously unpredictable.
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An Anomaly in Phase Transition: Liquid Crystals
While Austrian botanist Federich Reinitzer was investigating the properties of various chemical compounds, he observed that the compound cholesteryl benzoate appeared to have two distinct melting points.
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Symphony of the Human Brain
The “connectome” has become widely accepted within the field of neuroscience, bridging various attempts to map macroscopic neural connections to microscopic neural activity.
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Dual Consciousness in Split-Brain Patients
Experiments conducted on split-brain patients reveal fascinating suggestions for the roles and specializations of each hemisphere.
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The Gourmet Guide To the Galaxy: The Spaghettification of Black Holes
Approaching or crossing near the singularity, all matter inevitably undergoes intense spaghettification and becomes completely disintegrated.