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{"mod_blog_articles":{"rows":[{"status":40,"date":"2025-10-21 10:08:03","title":"Better gesture recognition technology is on the way","content":"\n\nA new generation of wearable technology is making it possible to control computers, robotic devices, and even video games using nothing more than finger movements. Instead of relying on keyboards, mice, or joysticks, these systems translate the subtle signals from muscles and the pressure of a grip directly into digital commands.\n\nThat future is inching closer thanks to research like a study published in [PLOS ONE] by a team at the University of California, Davis and California State University, Chico. The paper, authored by Peyton R. Young with co-authors **Kihun Hong, Eden J. Winslow, Giancarlo K. Sagastume, Marcus A. Battraw, Richard S. Whittle, and Jonathon S. Schofield**, dives deep into how machines can better recognize our hand gestures by listening to our bodies in not just one, but two ways.\n\nTheir question was simple but tricky: *how do limb position and the weight of objects we\u2019re holding affect the accuracy of gesture recognition systems?* After all, lifting a heavy box","featured_media":"https:\/\/data.paperleap.com\/mod_blog\/0cccy5\/m_68ea7018a38dd354_th.jpg","stats_views":63,"stats_likes":0,"stats_saves":0,"stats_shares":0,"author_firstname":"Paperleap","author_lastname":null,"category_name":"General","sID":"0cccy5","slug":"better-gesture-recognition-technology-is-on-the-way-0cccy5","category_sID":"0cccc0","category_slug":"general-0cccc0","author_slug":"paperleap-0cccc0"},{"status":40,"date":"2025-10-20 06:07:02","title":"Quantum coronagraph: a tool for seeing exoplanets like never before","content":"\n\nFor decades, astronomers have dreamed of spotting a true Earth twin, another small, rocky planet with oceans and maybe even life, orbiting a star far from our own. We already know of more than 5,500 exoplanets, discovered through clever techniques like watching a star dim slightly when a planet crosses in front of it, or measuring the star\u2019s subtle wobble under a planet\u2019s gravitational pull. But those are *indirect* methods. They hint at a planet\u2019s presence, but they don\u2019t let us *see* the world itself.\n\nDirect imaging, the holy grail of exoplanet science, would allow astronomers to study alien worlds the way we study Jupiter or Venus, capturing light straight from the planet. That light carries precious information about a planet\u2019s atmosphere, temperature, and maybe even chemical signs of life. But there\u2019s a catch: stars are **billions of times brighter** than the planets that orbit them. It\u2019s like trying to spot a firefly buzzing right next to a lighthouse, from acros","featured_media":"https:\/\/data.paperleap.com\/mod_blog\/0cccy8\/m_68ea6f782a863aTh_th.jpg","stats_views":167,"stats_likes":0,"stats_saves":0,"stats_shares":0,"author_firstname":"Paperleap","author_lastname":null,"category_name":"General","sID":"0cccy8","slug":"quantum-coronagraph-a-tool-for-seeing-exoplanets-like-never-before-0cccy8","category_sID":"0cccc0","category_slug":"general-0cccc0","author_slug":"paperleap-0cccc0"},{"status":40,"date":"2025-10-19 10:06:11","title":"Rethinking the complex geology of the Himalayas","content":"\n\nOn any world map, one feature immediately stands out: the vast Tibetan Plateau, often called \u201cthe roof of the world.\u201d Rising more than 4,500 meters above sea level and stretching across two million square kilometers, it dominates every other highland on Earth. For decades, geologists have explained its formation with a familiar story. India collided with Asia about 50 million years ago, and the force of that slow-motion crash lifted Tibet skyward.\n\nBut what if that story, taught in geology textbooks and repeated in countless documentaries, is only partly true?\n\nThat\u2019s the bold claim made by Yong-Fei Zheng, a geologist at the University of Science and Technology of China, whose paper was published in [Earth-Science Reviews]. Zheng argues that two of the most widely accepted ideas about the India-Asia collision don\u2019t actually hold up when you look closely at the evidence. And if he\u2019s right, it changes how we understand the Himalayas and also reshapes how scientists think abou","featured_media":"https:\/\/data.paperleap.com\/mod_blog\/0cccyl\/m_68ea6e19a7da1Rya_th.jpg","stats_views":254,"stats_likes":0,"stats_saves":0,"stats_shares":0,"author_firstname":"Paperleap","author_lastname":null,"category_name":"General","sID":"0cccyl","slug":"rethinking-the-complex-geology-of-the-himalayas-0cccyl","category_sID":"0cccc0","category_slug":"general-0cccc0","author_slug":"paperleap-0cccc0"},{"status":40,"date":"2025-10-18 01:11:08","title":"Turning cement into a power plant with bioinspired materials","content":"\n\n\nWhen we think about cement, we usually picture sidewalks, bridges, or the walls of skyscrapers that are solid, gray, and lifeless. But according to new research, the very material holding up our buildings could also power them. In a paper published in [Science Bulletin], a team of researchers from Southeast University in Nanjing, together with collaborators in Japan and South Africa suggests exactly that. The researchers developed a bio-inspired \u201cthermoelectric cement\u201d that not only supports buildings but also harvests energy from the everyday temperature differences around us. This breakthrough could help reshape the future of architecture, bringing us one step closer to self-powered buildings.\n\nAlthough we don't think about it often, buildings are hungry beasts. From heating and cooling to lighting and appliances, they account for about 40% of global energy use and roughly a third of all carbon emissions. Even before a building is finished, producing construction materials li","featured_media":"https:\/\/data.paperleap.com\/mod_blog\/0cccya\/m_68e86d9b8460d50W_th.jpg","stats_views":372,"stats_likes":0,"stats_saves":0,"stats_shares":0,"author_firstname":"Paperleap","author_lastname":null,"category_name":"General","sID":"0cccya","slug":"turning-cement-into-a-power-plant-with-bioinspired-materials-0cccya","category_sID":"0cccc0","category_slug":"general-0cccc0","author_slug":"paperleap-0cccc0"},{"status":40,"date":"2025-10-17 11:09:05","title":"50 years later, DDT still contaminates New Brunswick Lakes","content":"\n\nYou would never imagine what you would find if you went lake fishing in northern New Brunswick. The water is cold, clear, and seemingly untouched, as you would expect. But lurking beneath the surface, inside the very fish people prize for dinner, lies a chemical ghost from the 1950s: DDT.\n\nA study published in [PLOS ONE] shows that this once-celebrated insecticide, banned decades ago, continues to shape the ecology of Canadian lakes. Researchers Joshua Kurek, Meghan Fraser, Bobby Nakamoto, Karen Kidd, and Christopher Edge, conducted a study that revealed that brook trout in lakes once sprayed with DDT carry concentrations of the breakdown products of the pesticide at levels **ten times higher than what\u2019s considered safe for wildlife consumers**.\n\nDDT, short for dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, was hailed as a miracle chemical when it emerged in the 1940s. It killed mosquitoes, ticks, lice, and crop pests with stunning efficiency. During World War II, it was sprayed over soldiers to","featured_media":"https:\/\/data.paperleap.com\/mod_blog\/0cccy1\/m_68e8662dbedcbad8_th.jpg","stats_views":470,"stats_likes":0,"stats_saves":0,"stats_shares":0,"author_firstname":"Paperleap","author_lastname":null,"category_name":"General","sID":"0cccy1","slug":"50-years-later-ddt-still-contaminates-new-brunswick-lakes-0cccy1","category_sID":"0cccc0","category_slug":"general-0cccc0","author_slug":"paperleap-0cccc0"},{"status":40,"date":"2025-10-16 10:09:06","title":"Engineering healing with nanofiber antibiotic delivery","content":"\n\nA new kind of bandage is taking shape in a Krak\u00f3w laboratory, the perfect bandage. One that doesn\u2019t just cover a wound, but actively delivers medicine right where it\u2019s needed, slowly, steadily, and without the side effects of swallowing a pill. It looks like an ordinary piece of fabric, yet within its delicate fibers lies a system designed to fight infection with precision. This is the focus of a study published in [The Journal of Physical Chemistry B] by a team from the **Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Krak\u00f3w**. Physicists Olga Adamczyk, Ewa Juszy\u0144ska-Ga\u0142\u0105zka, Aleksandra Deptuch, Tomasz Tarnawski, Piotr Zieli\u0144ski, and Anna Drzewicz have engineered nanofiber mats that can deliver the antibiotic **metronidazole** directly to where it\u2019s needed. Steadily, safely, and without the side effects of conventional treatments.\n\nMost of us take medicine in the form of pills, injections, or creams. But these \u201cconventional\u201d methods have a big draw","featured_media":"https:\/\/data.paperleap.com\/mod_blog\/0cccyw\/m_68e8611b16762s8K_th.jpg","stats_views":562,"stats_likes":0,"stats_saves":0,"stats_shares":0,"author_firstname":"Paperleap","author_lastname":null,"category_name":"General","sID":"0cccyw","slug":"engineering-healing-with-nanofiber-antibiotic-delivery-0cccyw","category_sID":"0cccc0","category_slug":"general-0cccc0","author_slug":"paperleap-0cccc0"},{"status":40,"date":"2025-10-15 01:07:01","title":"Lessons from the Ice Age: climate change and human survival","content":"\n\nThirteen thousand years ago, Europe was a land in transition. Glaciers were retreating, forests were spreading north, and herds of reindeer still roamed the open plains. Hunter-gatherer families survived through hunting, fishing, and foraging, adjusting to each new shift in their surroundings. Then the climate suddenly turned cold again. Forests died back, rivers froze, and food became scarce. For those who lived through it, survival became a question of endurance and adaptation.\n\nThat\u2019s the question tackled by a study published in [PLOS ONE] titled **\u201cLarge scale and regional demographic responses to climatic changes in Europe during the Final Palaeolithic.\u201d** The research, conducted by a large international team of archaeologists from Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Denmark, Portugal, the UK, and beyond, asks: **how did Europe\u2019s last hunter-gatherers cope when the climate turned against them?**\n\n### A look into Europe at the end of the Ice Age\n\nThe **Final Palaeolithic** mar","featured_media":"https:\/\/data.paperleap.com\/mod_blog\/0cccyg\/m_68e85d80035a8INx_th.jpg","stats_views":687,"stats_likes":0,"stats_saves":0,"stats_shares":0,"author_firstname":"Paperleap","author_lastname":null,"category_name":"General","sID":"0cccyg","slug":"lessons-from-the-ice-age-climate-change-and-human-survival-0cccyg","category_sID":"0cccc0","category_slug":"general-0cccc0","author_slug":"paperleap-0cccc0"},{"status":40,"date":"2025-10-14 03:05:07","title":"Understanding venom differences from desert to rainforest","content":"\n\nLiving in India\u2019s countryside, chances are you\u2019ll hear of the Russell\u2019s viper. This thick, brown, chain-patterned snake is responsible for more snakebite deaths and injuries in India than any other species. Every year, thousands of rural farmers and field workers suffer its bite, often with devastating consequences.\n\nBut not all Russell\u2019s viper bites are created equal. Depending on where you are in India, the venom can act very differently, sometimes attacking blood, sometimes destroying tissue, sometimes triggering life-threatening complications in organs. The same species, but a wildly varied bite.\n\nA new study by Navaneel Sarangi, Senji Laxme, and Kartik Sunagar from the Centre for Ecological Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, explains that climate itself (temperature, rainfall, and seasonal shifts) plays a huge role in shaping the venom. Their work, published in [PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases], uses predictive modelling to connect weather pattern","featured_media":"https:\/\/data.paperleap.com\/mod_blog\/0cccys\/m_68e85b66f1822qc6_th.jpg","stats_views":781,"stats_likes":0,"stats_saves":0,"stats_shares":0,"author_firstname":"Paperleap","author_lastname":null,"category_name":"General","sID":"0cccys","slug":"understanding-venom-differences-from-desert-to-rainforest-0cccys","category_sID":"0cccc0","category_slug":"general-0cccc0","author_slug":"paperleap-0cccc0"},{"status":40,"date":"2025-10-13 06:10:05","title":"Cracking the mystery of glass","content":"\n\nGlass is one of the most familiar yet puzzling materials in our daily lives. Whether it\u2019s a drinking glass, a window, or a fiber-optic cable, we encounter it constantly. Unlike crystals, which have neatly ordered atomic structures, glass is disordered, more like a frozen liquid. Hidden within this disorder is a phenomenon that has puzzled scientists for decades: the **boson peak**.\n\nA research team from Japan, spanning universities and institutes in Tsukuba, Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka, has now uncovered how the boson peak connects to another long-standing glass mystery: the **first sharp diffraction peak (FSDP)**. Their study, published in *Scientific Reports* in March 2025, reveals a direct relationship between the two. In essence, they\u2019ve found a bridge between the structure of glass at the atomic level and the way it vibrates and carries energy.\n\nLet\u2019s unpack what that means, and why it matters for everything from stronger smartphone screens to better thermal insulation.\n\n### ","featured_media":"https:\/\/data.paperleap.com\/mod_blog\/0cccyf\/m_68d7dc4941dcdBqM_th.jpg","stats_views":858,"stats_likes":0,"stats_saves":0,"stats_shares":0,"author_firstname":"Paperleap","author_lastname":null,"category_name":"General","sID":"0cccyf","slug":"cracking-the-mystery-of-glass-0cccyf","category_sID":"0cccc0","category_slug":"general-0cccc0","author_slug":"paperleap-0cccc0"},{"status":40,"date":"2025-10-12 07:02:09","title":"How lifestyle choices shape your future health","content":"\n\nThe choices we make in early adulthood, including whether we smoke, how much we drink, or how often we exercise, can leave a lasting imprint on both body and mind. A new study from Finland shows that these habits echo decades later, influencing not only physical health but also mental well-being and self-perceptions of health well into our sixties.\n\nThis research, published in [Annals of Medicine], was conducted by Tiia Kek\u00e4l\u00e4inen of Laurea University of Applied Sciences and the University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4, alongside Johanna Ahola, Emmi Reinil\u00e4, Tiina Savikangas, Marja-Liisa Kinnunen, Tuuli Pitk\u00e4nen, and Katja Kokko. Their findings come from one of the world\u2019s longest-running psychological and health studies, the **Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4 Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development (JYLS)**, which has been following Finns born in 1959 for more than fifty years.\n\nThe dangers of smoking, heavy drinking, and inactivity are well established. What makes this study unique is its abili","featured_media":"https:\/\/data.paperleap.com\/mod_blog\/0cccyk\/m_68d7d769309bdYng_th.jpg","stats_views":953,"stats_likes":0,"stats_saves":0,"stats_shares":0,"author_firstname":"Paperleap","author_lastname":null,"category_name":"General","sID":"0cccyk","slug":"how-lifestyle-choices-shape-your-future-health-0cccyk","category_sID":"0cccc0","category_slug":"general-0cccc0","author_slug":"paperleap-0cccc0"}],"total":102,"pagesize":10,"page":1},"mod_blog_settings":{"excerpt_length":50},"theme":{"description":"Articles"}}
