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A virtual reality game integrating smell to fight cognitive decline

Aiming to address age-related cognitive decline, a growing global health challenge, a team of researchers has developed a VR-based smell-training system to help combat it. This innovative VR game activates memory pathways by incorporating olfactory stimulation in a virtual environment. This game-based method offers an engaging platform for maintaining cognitive function and reducing the risk

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Restoring oil wells back to nature with moss

In what could represent a milestone in ecological restoration, researchers have implemented a method capable of restoring peatlands at tens of thousands of oil and gas exploration sites in Western Canada. The project involves lowering the surface of these decommissioned sites, known as well pads, and transplanting native moss onto them to effectively recreate peatlands.

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‘Scratching’ more than the ocean’s surface to map global microplastic movement

An international team of scientists has moved beyond just ‘scratching the surface,’ to understand how microplastics move through and impact the global ocean. For the first time, scientists have mapped microplastic distribution from the surface to the deep sea at a global scale — revealing not only where plastics accumulate, but how they infiltrate critical

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Scientists observe how blobs form crystals and discover a new crystal type

Crystals — from sugar and table salt to snowflakes and diamonds — don’t always grow in a straightforward way. Researchers have now captured this journey from amorphous blob to orderly structures. In exploring how crystals form, the researchers also came across an unusual, rod-shaped crystal that hadn’t been identified before, naming it ‘Zangenite’ for the

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A vast molecular cloud, long invisible, is discovered near solar system

Astrophysicists have discovered a potentially star-forming cloud that is one of the largest single structures in the sky and among the closest to the sun and Earth ever to be detected. The scientists have named the molecular hydrogen cloud ‘Eos,’ after the Greek goddess of mythology who is the personification of dawn.

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