Dopamine-scrolling characterized by prolonged engagement with algorithmically curated social media content driven by intermittent rewards and personalized recommendations has emerged as a common pattern of digital behavior with potential implications for everyday occupations. Although dopamine-scrolling has been discussed in relation to psychological constructs, its influence on occupational part…

Newton's first law is part definition and part experimental. Isolated bodies move uniformly in inertial systems by virtue of the definition of an inertial system. In contrast, the assertion that inertial systems exist is a statement about the physical world. According to me, the assertion in the last lines follows from the following statement. It is always possible to find a coordinate system in …

I am reading about this apparatus at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magneto-optical_trap And there is the following sentence which I don't understand: "As atoms travel away from the field zero at the center of the trap (halfway between the coils), the spatially-varying Zeeman shift brings an atomic transition into resonance which gives rise to a scattering force that pushes the atoms ba…

The Hidden Cost of Edge-Based Database Queries In the modern Next.js ecosystem, the allure of "Edge Everything" is strong. It promises lightning-fast global latency and a seamless developer experience. However, this architectural shift has introduced a common, silent performance killer: running database-backed authentication checks directly inside Next.js Middleware. While it feels intuitive to s…

Published on September 12, 2026 2:47 AM GMT The advancement of frontier models is beginning to change our understanding of how we understand science and scientific discoveries. Scientists are now able to solve complex problems using AI. AI models have now been used to identify novel drug targets, develop novel drugs. For example, AI model was used to design rentosertib, a drug candidate for idiop…

A serious behavioural failure may be uncommon within a person’s history yet become the principal basis for judgments of character and future risk. This conceptual article develops the conjunctive misfortune problem: adverse conditions, culpable action, stochastic harm, categorical institutional responses, and persistent collateral consequences can combine to generate sharply divergent life course…

To properly understand aging, we have to understand what is slowly unravelling in individual cells. What is it that makes our cells become less efficient and more vulnerable to disease over time, and eventually break down? A new study, led by researchers from the Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI) in Germany, details new findings about how […]

a modular pavilion bridging human and non-human environments, using woodland prunings to foster biodiversity and offer a shared refuge. The post m²ft architects stacks woodland branches into modular biodiversity pavilion in italy appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine .

For decades, farmers have relied on intuition and experience to gauge water needs, often working against the clock to prevent drought stress or wasteful over-irrigation. But what if there was a way to know exactly how much water crops are releasing i