Exploring New Chapters in Biology and Health
Every week, a selection of important or interesting recent academic reports involving different fields are featured, presenting you with the latest academic achievements.
Biology · Health
Lethal Opposite: A study found that merely being in contact with the opposite, or even their scent, was enough to increase the risk of death and accelerate the aging process.
New Tools for Perceiving the World: The scientific journal “Science” has unveiled new research indicating that Nobel-Prize-winning achievements have been upgraded, giving us a whole new understanding of how we perceive the world.
Extreme Cases of Vaccination: A 62-year-old man received 217 COVID-19 vaccine shots over two years, never tested positive for the virus, and experienced no side effects, though doctors warn that this behavior is inadvisable.
Physical Changes from Fasting: A sub-journal of “Nature” reveals that after seven consecutive days of fasting, one’s body weight drops, and over a thousand types of proteins undergo changes.
A New Type of Aging Clock: The journal “Nature” has published a new aging clock that differentiates biological causality, providing a new assessment tool for predicting biological age.
The Reason Humans Lost Their Tails: A cover article in the journal “Nature” explains how a specific jumping gene eliminated human tails, and suggests this change may have brought additional risks.
The Association Between Wound Healing and Aging: Research from a sub-journal of “Nature” found that wound healing might lead to accelerated aging in other parts of the body, a surprising discovery.
Computing · Artificial Intelligence
Microsoft Research on Sora: Microsoft reverse-engineered Sora in a 37-page paper, drawing beneficial conclusions.
Research Findings of Stable Diffusion 3: This groundbreaking research paper was published, detailing the architecture and specifics of the algorithm.
AI Tool for 3D Reconstruction: An AI tool that can perform 3D reconstruction in just 2 seconds using only 2 images is gaining popularity on GitHub.
New Breakthrough in Object Detection: YOLOv9 has been released, with a new architecture that revitalizes traditional convolutional technology and sets a new benchmark in the field of object detection.
Chemistry · Materials
Breakthrough in Solar Energy Technology: Professor Tan Hairen’s team at Nanjing University published research in the journal Science, successfully constructing high-efficiency perovskite tandem solar components.
Latest Advances in Sodium Batteries: A heavyweight article in the journal Nature Energy introduced the latest breakthroughs in sodium battery technology.
New Boron Nitride Ceramics: An academician team at Yanshan University published their research in the journal Nature, introducing a polycrystalline boron nitride bulk ceramic with excellent room temperature deformability and strength.
Other Fields
Food as Plastic Alternatives: Utilizing three unexpected types of food as substitutes for traditional plastics, aimed at reducing environmental pollution.
Global Temperature Changes: New research reveals changes in global and regional temperatures over the past 4.5 million years.
The Impact of Forests Against Climate Change: Research indicates that the chemical reflectivity feedback partially offsets the benefit of reduced carbon dioxide emissions from afforestation.
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