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Content: Volume 6, Issue 3

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Enabling a hydrogen-fueled future

Due to its nature as a clean fuel, there has been substantial interest in recent decades in developing hydrogen fuel cells and storage technologies. However, this "hydrogen economy" is currently limited by the fact that hydrogen is known to significantly reduce the toughness of steels.... click to read more

  • Eason Chen | Research Fellow at Australian Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
  • Julie M. Cairney | Professor at Australian Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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Reading time 4.5 min
published on Sep 1, 2020
Scrambled frog eggs return to life

When you make scrambled eggs for breakfast, you are probably not expecting any signs of life in the resulting mush, let alone development into chicken embryos. Indeed, it seems common sense that living things are organized structures, and once these structures are jumbled up, life... click to read more

  • Xianrui Cheng | Research Scientist at Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
  • James E. Ferrell, Jr. | Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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Reading time 3.5 min
published on Aug 31, 2020
Black holes ring like Einstein predicted

In their inscrutable depths, black holes hold the keys to some of the deepest mysteries of our Universe. Woven out of nothing more than pure space and time, black holes are regions so dense that nothing may escape their gravitational pull. At their center lies... click to read more

  • Maximiliano Isi | NASA Einstein Postdoctoral Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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Reading time 3.5 min
published on Aug 28, 2020
The "reasonable irrationality" principle

So, what decisions are considered sound? Foundational theories in neo-classic economics address this question by pointing to the concept of rationality. A rational person is aiming to maximize their preferences, to de facto pursue their self-interests. According to economists, a rational person uses abstract rules,... click to read more

  • Igor Grossmann | Professor at Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
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Reading time 3.5 min
published on Aug 26, 2020
De-liver-ing blood and immune cells to the developing human

Some blood and immune disorders have origins during early human development. To treat these diseases effectively, we must understand what is occurring during normal development and how critical changes in cellular expansion could lead to disease. In adulthood, our blood and immune cells are made in... click to read more

  • Emily Stephenson | PhD student at Biosciences Institute, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
  • Laura Jardine | Lecturer at Biosciences Institute, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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Reading time 3 min
published on Aug 25, 2020