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January 13, 2017

Common fruit bat. Weizmann Institute scientists report on a new type of neurons discovered in the bat brain. These neurons encode the direction and distance to the target to which the bat navigates and in this way they constitute a direct neural mechanism for navigating to targets. Source: Oren Pels, Derivative work: User:MathKnight, Wikimedia.

How the brain encodes the "destination point" that you want to reach

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diamond. Unfortunately, the new battery won't be as pretty. Cory Schmitz

Diamonds from nuclear waste are forever

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Detection of chemical activity on the surface of nanometer-sized platinum particles, which are used as catalysts in the chemical industry, was made possible by focusing infrared light onto a nanometer-sized needle. These measurements showed for the first time how and where chemical activity occurs on the surface of the particles

For the first time, chemical activity was observed on the surface of tiny particles used as catalysts in industrial production

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