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According to an analysis by JPMorganChase Institute, more Americans are transferring their money from checking and savings accounts into brokerage accounts, money market funds and CDs in search of ...
A non-invasive imaging technique can translate scenes in your head into sentences. It could help to reveal how the brain interprets the world. Reading a person’s mind using a recording of their brain ...
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MANY COUPLES struggle to conceive. Some are helped by IVF (in-vitro fertilisation). But if the woman has no usable eggs to fertilise, they must either give up or use a donor. Researchers have thus ...
This is a human-written story voiced by AI. Got feedback? Take our survey. (See our AI policy here.) The findings powerfully demonstrate the flexoelectric effect, a phenomenon where electricity is ...
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A startup energy company, called Marathon Fusion, may soon be living out the dream of alchemists from the Middle Ages. In a recently released paper posted to the arXiv preprint server, the company ...
Queen Mary University of London provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. The alchemist’s dream is to make gold from common metals, but can this be done? The physics needed to explain how ...
Energy startup Marathon Fusion claims to have found a scalable way to turn mercury into gold, but they still have much to prove. Reading time 2 minutes Keep checking those gold prices—scientists have ...
A fusion energy startup claims to have found a way to turn mercury into gold. As the Financial Times reports, San Francisco-based Marathon Fusion says that the same process that could one day ...