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"In this study, we developed a soft robotic model of the right heart that accurately mimics RV biomechanics and hemodynamics, including free wall, septal and valve motion."

Singh, M., Bonnemain, J., Ozturk, C. et al. Robotic right ventricle is a biohybrid platform that simulates right ventricular function in (patho)physiological conditions and intervention. Nat Cardiovasc Res (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44161-023-00387-8 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Cardiology #Medicine #Health #Bioengineering #Heart #Engineering #ComputerScience #Biotechnology #Robotics #Science #STEM #Academia #Academic @science @engineering

"The present study has highlighted the gene-culture co-migration with the demographic movements that occurred during the past two millennia in Central and East Asia. Additionally, this work contributes to a better understanding of the distribution of immunogenic erythrocyte polymorphisms with a view to improve transfusion safety."

Petit, F., Minnai, F., Chiaroni, J. et al. The radial expansion of the Diego blood group system polymorphisms in Asia: mark of co-migration with the Mongol conquests. Eur J Hum Genet 27, 125–132 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41431-018-0245-9 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Research #Article #Science #STEM #Genetics #Biology #Asia #CentralAsia #EastAsia #Demography #Migration #Academia #Academic @science @biology

"Scientists have developed tiny robots made of human cells that are able to repair damaged neural tissue1. The ‘anthrobots’ were made using human tracheal cells and might, in future, be used in personalized medicine.

The research “points the way to a ‘tissue engineering 2.0’ that synthetically controls a range of developmental processes”, says Alex Hughes, a bioengineer at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia." https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-03777-x #Science #Bioengineering #Biology #Robotics #STEM #Scientists

Comparative view of the principal buildings in the world. Drawn & Engraved by John Emslie. London. Published by James Reynolds, 174, Strand. March 30, 1850. (to accompany) Reynolds introduction to natural philosophy. https://archive.org/details/dr_comparative-view-of-the-principal-buildings-in-the-world-drawn--engraved-13033035 via @internetarchive #Picture #World #Buildings #DataVisualization #DataViz #History #C19th #19thCentury #STEM #Technology #Science #Histsci

#Image credit: David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries.

Brozio JP, Stos-Gale Z, Müller J, Müller-Scheeßel N, Schultrich S, et al. (2023) The origin of Neolithic copper on the central Northern European plain and in Southern Scandinavia: Connectivities on a European scale. PLOS ONE 18(5): e0283007. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283007 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Research #Article #Neolithic #BronzeAge #Metallurgy #Copper #Archaeology #History #Europe #Scandinavia #Science #STEM #Academia #Academic #Archaeodons @archaeodons @science

"A radical theory that consistently unifies gravity and quantum mechanics while preserving Einstein’s classical concept of spacetime is announced today in two papers published simultaneously by UCL physicists." https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2023/dec/new-theory-seeks-unite-einsteins-gravity-quantum-mechanics #Academic #Science #Research #STEM #Physics #QuantumPhysics @physics @science

"We consider two interacting systems when one is treated classically while the other system remains quantum. Consistent dynamics of this coupling has been shown to exist, and explored in the context of treating space-time classically. Here, we prove that any such hybrid dynamics necessarily results in decoherence of the quantum system, and a breakdown in predictability in the classical phase space."

Oppenheim, J., Sparaciari, C., Šoda, B. et al. Gravitationally induced decoherence vs space-time diffusion: testing the quantum nature of gravity. Nat Commun 14, 7910 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43348-2 #OpenAccess #OA #Academic #Science #Research #STEM #Physics #QuantumPhysics @physics @science

"Our results show that forcing by warm ocean water can cause the rapid onset of dynamic imbalance and increased ice discharge from glaciers on the Antarctic Peninsula, highlighting the region’s sensitivity to future climate variability."

Wallis, B.J., Hogg, A.E., Meredith, M.P. et al. Ocean warming drives rapid dynamic activation of marine-terminating glacier on the west Antarctic Peninsula. Nat Commun 14, 7535 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42970-4 #OpenAccess #OA #Science #Article #Earth #Environment #Antarctic #Marine #Ocean #Climate #ClimateChange #oceanography @science

"Y-chromosome results highlight a significant genetic differentiation between the North-Western and South-Eastern part of the Mediterranean, the Italian Peninsula occupying an intermediate position therein. In particular, Sicily and Southern Italy reveal a shared paternal genetic background with the Balkan Peninsula and the time estimates of main Y-chromosome lineages signal paternal genetic traces of Neolithic and post-Neolithic migration events."

Sarno S, Boattini A, Carta M, Ferri G, Alù M, et al. (2014) An Ancient Mediterranean Melting Pot: Investigating the Uniparental Genetic Structure and Population History of Sicily and Southern Italy. PLOS ONE 9(4): e96074. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0096074 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Science #STEM #Population #Genetics #PopulationGenetics #Italy #Sicily #DNA #Paleogenetics #Europe #Anthropology #Biology #Academia @science @biology @anthropology

"Decades after the scientific debate about the anthropogenic causes of climate change was settled, climate disinformation still challenges the scientific evidence in public discourse. Here we present a comprehensive theoretical framework of (anti)science belief formation and updating to account for the psychological factors that influence the acceptance or rejection of scientific messages."

Spampatti, T., Hahnel, U.J.J., Trutnevyte, E. et al. Psychological inoculation strategies to fight climate disinformation across 12 countries. Nat Hum Behav (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01736-0 #OpenAccess #OA #Science #Report #Climate #ClimateChange #Disinformation #Psychology @science @psychology

"Christian Doppler was an Austrian mathematician who is best known for the Doppler effect in wave theory." https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Doppler/ #BOTD #OTD #History #Maths #Math #Mathematics #Physics #Science #STEM @science

"Our findings demonstrate a dampening effect on perceptual, emotional, and evaluative processing of presumed deepfake smiles, but not angry expressions, adding new specificity to the debate on the societal impact of AI-generated content."

Eiserbeck, A., Maier, M., Baum, J. et al. Deepfake smiles matter less—the psychological and neural impact of presumed AI-generated faces. Sci Rep 13, 16111 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-42802-x #OpenAccess #OA #Science #Research #Article #Digital #Data #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #DeepFake #DeepFakes #Psychology @psychology

"Abraham de Moivre (born May 26, 1667, Vitry, Fr.—died Nov. 27, 1754, London) French mathematician who was a pioneer in the development of analytic trigonometry and in the theory of probability"

Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Abraham de Moivre". Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Nov. 2023, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Abraham-de-Moivre. Accessed 27 November 2023. #History #Science #STEM #Maths #Math #Mathematics #HistoryOfScience #HistSci @science

"Just 300,000 years ago – a blink in evolutionary time – at least nine species of humans wandered the planet. Today, only our own, Homo sapiens, remains. And this raises one of the biggest questions in the story of human evolution: where did everyone else go?" https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/nov/18/where-did-other-human-species-go-vanished-ancestors-homo-sapiens-neanderthals-denisovans #Science #Evolution #Biology #Palaeontology #Anthropology #Neanderthals @science

"The Y-chromosomal variation in South Kazakh clans indicates their common origin in 13th–14th centuries AD, in agreement with the traditional genealogy. Though genetically there were at least three ancestral lineages instead of the traditional single ancestor."

Zhabagin, M., Sabitov, Z., Tarlykov, P. et al. The medieval Mongolian roots of Y-chromosomal lineages from South Kazakhstan. BMC Genet 21 (Suppl 1), 87 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12863-020-00897-5 #OpenAccess #OA #Science #Research #Article #Human #Genetics #Medieval #Kazakh #Mongol @science

"The primary objectives of this study were to assess the paternal genetic variation in Altaian Kazakh populations and their population histories, to understand the paternal origins of Kazakhs, and to elucidate the process by which this ethnic group formed."

Dulik MC, Osipova LP, Schurr TG (2011) Y-Chromosome Variation in Altaian Kazakhs Reveals a Common Paternal Gene Pool for Kazakhs and the Influence of Mongolian Expansions. PLOS ONE 6(3): e17548. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0017548 #OpenAccess #OA #Science #Research #Article #Kazakh #Population #Genetics #PopulationGenetics #Asia @science

"Our approach consists of a pipeline with two components: a sign detector and a wedge detector. The sign detector uses a RepPoints model with a ResNet18 backbone to locate individual cuneiform characters in the tablet segment image. The signs are then cropped based on the sign locations and fed into the wedge detector. The wedge detector is based on the idea of Point RCNN approach. It uses a Feature Pyramid Network (FPN) and RoI Align to predict the positions and classes of the wedges. The method is evaluated using different hyperparameters, and post-processing techniques such as Non-Maximum Suppression (NMS) are applied for refinement."

Stötzner E., Homburg T., Bullenkamp J.P. & Mara H. R-CNN based Polygonal Wedge Detection Learned from Annotated 3D Renderings and Mapped Photographs of Open Data Cuneiform Tablets. GCH 2023 - Eurographics Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2312/gch.20231157 #Research #Science #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Archaeology #Cuneiform #ComputerScience #Modeling @science @archaeodons

🇲🇳 " We observed that our studied Mongolians were structured into three distinct genetic clusters possessing different genetic affinity with previous studied Inner Mongolians and Mongols and various Eastern and Western Eurasian ancestries: two subgroups harbored dominant Eastern Eurasian ancestry from Neolithic millet farmers of Yellow River Basin; another subgroup derived Eastern Eurasian ancestry primarily from Neolithic hunter-gatherers of North Asia."

Yang X, Sarengaowa, He G, Guo J, Zhu K, Ma H, Zhao J, Yang M, Chen J, Zhang X, Tao L, Liu Y, Zhang X-F and Wang C-C (2021) Genomic Insights Into the Genetic Structure and Natural Selection of Mongolians. Front. Genet. 12:735786. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2021.735786 #OpenAccess #OA #Science #Research #Mongolia #Mongolian #Genetics #Anthropology #Population #Asia #STEM #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @anthropology

"The Arctic is warming at almost 4 times the global average rate. Here we reframe this amplified Arctic warming in terms of global climate ambition to show that without Arctic amplification, the world would breach the Paris Agreement's 1.5 and 2 ∘C limits 5 and 8 years later, respectively."

Duffey, A., Mallett, R., Irvine, P. J., Tsamados, M., and Stroeve, J.: ESD Ideas: Arctic amplification's contribution to breaches of the Paris Agreement, Earth Syst. Dynam., 14, 1165–1169, https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-14-1165-2023, 2023. #Research #Paper #Climate #ClimateChange #Science #Arctic #Polar #ClimateCrisis @science

"The industrialisation and commercialisation of food have transformed our diets, whereby most of our calories now come from an entirely novel set of substances. Ultra Processed Food (UPF) now makes up 60% of the average diet in the UK and USA. It is highly processed, highly addictive, and largely unhealthy." https://youtu.be/5QOTBreQaIk #Youtube #Video #Science #Food #Diet #Health @science