by Dilruwan Herath | April, 2024 | Science |
AI | Can AI Assist in Peer Review? The peer review process plays a crucial role in maintaining rigor and quality standards in academic research. However, the constant growth in research output has placed tremendous strain on this system as the number of papers...
by Dilruwan Herath | April, 2024 | Science |
AI | Will AI Diminish the Rigor of Peer Review? Scholars have progressively embraced computational aids as a means of accelerating written output and analytical undertakings. Yet as these automated systems augment in proficiency, so too does their potential to subtly...
by Dilruwan Herath | April, 2024 | Science |
Imaging Atoms in Quantum Wave Motion Physicists at the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel in Paris have developed a powerful new technique for directly observing the wave-like behavior of individual atoms as they move through space. By precisely controlling ultracold atoms...
by Dilruwan Herath | April, 2024 | Science |
Ocean Productivity Declines as Marine Heatwaves Intensify The ocean acts as Earth’s temperature regulator and carbon sink, absorbing over 90% of the excess heat trapped by greenhouse gases. As global warming accelerates, the ocean experiences rising temperatures...
by Dilruwan Herath | April, 2024 | Science |
Towards Printing the Brain “The high resolution of two-photon polymerisation makes it possible to print details in the micro- and nanometre range and is therefore very suitable for imaging cranial nerves.” Chalupa-Gantner Medical University of Vienna Magnetic...
by Dilruwan Herath | April, 2024 | Science |
ACTIVITY | The Lyrid Meteor Shower: An April Sky Spectacle What WhenWhereCost The Lyrid meteor shower is a burst of meteor activity occurring around mid to late April. In 2024, the Lyrid meteor shower will be active between 14-30 April and will peak on the night...
by Dilruwan Herath | May, 2017 | Science |
Deceit and theft in micro-plastic research? The study probably helped propagate some of the Facebook sharing of articles that described the damage plastic microparticles did to fish but after a report from a Swedish ethics committee the authors Peter Eklöv and Oona...
by Dilruwan Herath | May, 2017 | Science |
The long road of signalling research Main stream media heralds each new discovery of a signalling molecule as a breakthrough, the reality is that it’s a long road to truly elucidating how each discovery fits within their environment.The Ser and Thr kinase AKT,...
by Dilruwan Herath | April, 2017 | Science |
The new premier league players “The bees solved the task in a different way than what was demonstrated, suggesting that observer bees did not simply copy what they saw, but improved on it,” Dr Olli J. Loukola Queen Mary, University of London’s School of...
by Dilruwan Herath | June, 2016 | Science |
A new way to calibrate the postmortem clock? It’s almost in every detective film or novel, the line where the detective asks the pathologist ‘What was the time of death?’. The postmortem interval (PMI) as it is defined contains the answer to that...