The AlphaGalileo Blog 02/10/2020
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Top 5 September 2020
1. Pourquoi Donald Trump peut gagner l’élection, published by Université de Neuchâtel on 10/09/20
Après avoir prédit contre toute attente la victoire de Donald Trump face à Hillary Clinton en 2016 sur la base d’une analyse des comportements sur Internet, une équipe de l’Université de Neuchâtel et de l’IFAA (Institut pour la recherche appliquée en argumentation) à Berne constate à nouveau une avance nette du président américain sur la Toile dans la campagne électorale actuelle.
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2. 4D reconstruction allows sites to be studied after excavation, published by CENIEH, Spain, on 22/09/2020
The Digital Mapping and 3D Analysis Laboratory at the CENIEH has reconstructed the Trinchera del Ferrocarril sites in the Sierra de Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain) using terrestrial laser scanners so that their structures can be studied after they have been excavated.
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3. Simple nasal spray ready to save lives, published by The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) on 3/09/2020
Between 250 and 270 people die each year from heroin or opioid overdoses in Norway. In the EU, thousands die. European users now have a better option available for helping each other.
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4. Neandertal DNA found in human organoids, published by Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB) on 11/09/2020
An exciting new approach to understanding human disease across multiple organ systems
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5. A phonon laser – coherent vibrations from a self-breathing resonator, published by Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V. (FVB) on 11/09/2020
Lasing – the emission of a collimated light beam of light with a well-defined wavelength (color) and phase - results from a self-organization process, in which a collection of emission centers synchronizes itself to produce identical light particles (photons). A similar self-organized synchronization phenomenon can also lead to the generation of coherent vibrations – a phonon laser, where phonon denotes, in analogy to photons, the quantum particles of sound.
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Could singing spread Covid-19? by Lund University on 07/09/2020
If silence is golden, speech is silver – and singing the worst.
Singing doesn’t need to be silenced, however, but at the moment the wisest thing is to sing with social distancing in place. The advice comes from aerosol researchers at Lund University in Sweden. They have studied the amount of particles we actually emit when we sing – and by extension – if we contribute to the increased spread of Covid-19 by singing.
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Image Caption: During the tests, the singers sang into a funnel. The arosol particles were measured at the other end of the funnel. Photo: Malin Alsved
Sabretooths evolved different hunting styles during the last 250 million years by University of Birmingham on 29/09/2020
Sabre-toothed predators evolved an unknown diversity in hunting and killing styles over the last 250 million years, a new study reveals.
Sabretooth cats are among the most iconic fossils, but sabre-toothed animals came in all shapes and sizes and nearly a hundred different species are known to science so far. Not all them belonged to the same family as modern cats and some of them even predate dinosaurs.
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A Small Piece Of Jurassic Park: DNA extracted from insects embedded in resin by Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum on 29/09/2020
For the first time, Senckenberg scientist Mónica Solórzano-Kraemer, together with lead authors David Peris and Kathrin Janssen of the University of Bonn and additional colleagues from Spain and Norway, successfully extracted genetic material from insects that were embedded in six- and two-year-old resin samples. DNA – in particular, DNA from extinct animals – is an important tool in the identification of species. In the future, the researchers plan to use their new methods on older resin inclusions as well. The study was published today in the scientific journal “PLOS ONE."
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