Articles by Ingrid Fadelli
Phys.org / Biases shape how people mentally represent social ties in their community, study suggests
Throughout the course of their lives, humans are known to build social ties with various other individuals in their community. Past neuroscience and psychology studies suggest that as humans form bonds with others, they also ...
Tech Xplore / New system allows acoustic robots to co-operatively transport objects
While so far robots have predominantly been deployed individually, as teams, they can tackle a wider range of complex missions with remarkable speed and efficiency. For instance, they could help to rapidly transport objects ...
Phys.org / Snails get stressed: Invertebrate model sheds light on biological basis of anxiety
Anxiety, the psychological and physiological state characterized by an anticipation of potential threats and a heightened sense of vigilance, is regularly experienced by many humans worldwide. Research suggests that anxiety ...
Medical Xpress / Individual neurons in amygdala and hippocampus encode visual features that help recognize faces, study finds
Humans are innately capable of recognizing other people they have seen before. This capability ultimately allows them to build meaningful social connections, develop their sense of identity, better cooperate with others, ...
Tech Xplore / New method stores high-density methane in graphene-coated nanoporous carbon
Methane (CH4), one of the most abundant natural gases on Earth, is still widely used to power several buildings and to fuel some types of vehicles. Despite its widespread use, storing and transporting this gas safely remains ...
Phys.org / Twisted trilayer graphene shows high kinetic inductance
Superconductivity is an advantageous physical phenomenon observed in some materials, which entails an electrical resistance of zero below specific critical temperatures. This phenomenon is known to arise following the formation ...
Medical Xpress / Injury to specific brain connections could explain some people's criminal behavior, study finds
Over the past decades, some lawyers have started using brain imaging scans as evidence during criminal trials, to provide a possible explanation for the criminal behavior of defendants. This was justified by recent neuroscientific ...
Tech Xplore / Turning tap water into hydrogen: New strategy lets PEM electrolyzers use impure water
In recent years, energy engineers have been working on a wide range of technologies that could help to generate and store electrical power more sustainably. These include electrolyzers, devices that could use electricity ...
Medical Xpress / Study explores genetic link between cannabis use and psychiatric disorders
Cannabis, also known as marijuana or weed, is widely consumed worldwide, whether for recreational or medicinal purposes. Over the past decades, the use of cannabis has been fully legalized or decriminalized in various countries ...
Tech Xplore / New passivation strategy improves scalability and efficiency of perovskite solar cells
Solar cells, devices that can convert sunlight into electrical energy, are becoming increasingly widespread, with many households and industries worldwide now relying on them as a source of electricity. While crystalline ...
Tech Xplore / Multimodal LLMs and the human brain create object representations in similar ways, study finds
A better understanding of how the human brain represents objects that exist in nature, such as rocks, plants, animals, and so on, could have interesting implications for research in various fields, including psychology, neuroscience ...
Medical Xpress / How hippocampal place cells and synaptic plasticity contribute to the progressive acquisition of memories
The human brain is known to store various memories for long periods of time, progressively learning from new experiences and forming adaptive representations that ultimately guide decision-making and behavior. When people ...
Phys.org / A new approach to probing Landauer's principle in the quantum many-body regime
Landauer's principle is a thermodynamics concept also relevant in information theory, which states that erasing one bit of information from an information system results in the dissipation of at least a specific amount (i.e., ...
Tech Xplore / Compute-in-memory chip shows promise for enhanced efficiency and privacy in federated learning systems
In recent decades, computer scientists have been developing increasingly advanced machine learning techniques that can learn to predict specific patterns or effectively complete tasks by analyzing large amounts of data. Yet ...
Medical Xpress / Habits supported by two different aspects of action control could resolve past discrepancies
When humans repeat specific patterns of behavior on a regular basis, these behaviors can become habits. Some habits, such as exercising in the morning, hygienic rituals, eating healthy or meditation practices, can be beneficial. ...
