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A research team consisting of the Cognitive Neurotechnology Unit and the Visual Perception & Cognition Lab of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology, showed that certain combinations of facial expressions and facial colors increased the event-related potential P3. The human brain emits weak electrical signals (electroencephalogram, EEG), and the event-related potential P3 is a positive amplitude potential that reflects selective attention and is observed in the EEG around the parietal and center at 300–500 ms after stimulus perception. This study showed that the P3 amplitudes for red angry faces are higher than those for red neutral faces, and that the relationship between facial expression and facial color, that is, an angry face and red, changed brain activity reflecting selective attention. The results of this study were published online in the journal eNeuro on January 10, 2025.https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0419-24.2024

The College of Engineering at Seoul National University announced that Professors Jungwon Park and Jaeyune Ryu of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, in collaboration with Hyundai Motor Group, have developed an innovative technology for rapid durability assessment and identification of degradation mechanisms of hydrogen fuel cell catalysts.

POSTECH and Japan’s NIMS Identify Edge Dependence of Electron Transport in Bilayer Graphene.

In the research, they benchmark FIFAWC on two tasks: traditional GAR and innovative GA video captioning. For GAR, they evaluate the classical detector-based approach ARG, and the state-of-the-art detector-free DFWSGAR.

On December 24th, AES Andes, a subsidiary of the US power company AES Corporation, submitted a project for a massive industrial complex for environmental impact assessment. This complex threatens the pristine skies above ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert, the darkest and clearest of any astronomical observatory in the world [1]. The industrial megaproject is planned to be located just 5 to 11 kilometres from telescopes at Paranal, which would cause irreparable damage to astronomical observations, in particular due to light pollution emitted throughout the project’s operational life. Relocating the complex would save one of Earth's last truly pristine dark skies.

A new study led by scientists in the Schmid College of Science and Technology at Chapman University provides the first comprehensive global estimates of the amount of water stored in Earth’s plants and the amount of time it takes for that water to flow through them. The information is a missing piece of the puzzle in  understanding the global water cycle and how that cycle is being altered by changes in land use and climate.