Wordporn is a word I use to tag articles that make the word part of my brain excited. But after listening to a recent talk about hyper-heteronormalization algorithms on porn websites at a computer enthusiast conference, and maybe something about the normalization of porn in general, I left thinking maybe word-porning like food porn, sports porn, or car porn is a bad idea.
Maybe word candy will do. I wonder where all this word-porning came from anyway. Maybe it started with food porn. I find a 2010 article in Gastronomica, The Journal for Food Studies titled "Food Porn", where the author attempts to find the origin of the phrase, but uses the phrase "sex porn" and I just had to stop there, because that's an interesting retronym if I've ever heard one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retronym
Scientists prepare for 'anthropulse' as COVID-19 travel restrictions ease
Mar 2022, phys.org
Anthropulse
via University of St Andrews: Studying pauses and pulses in human mobility and their environmental impacts, Nature Reviews Earth and Environment (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s43017-022-00276-x
Novel theory of entropy may solve materials design issues
Mar 2022, phys.org
Zentropy
Zentropy theory notes that the thermodynamic relationship of thermal expansion, when the volume increases due to higher temperature, is equal to the negative derivative of entropy with respect to pressure, i.e., the entropy of most material systems decreases with an increase in pressure. This enables Zentropy theory to be able to predict the change of volume as a function of temperature at a multiscale level, meaning the different scales within a system. Every state of matter has its own entropy, and different parts of a system have their own entropy.
via Pennsylvania State University: Zi-Kui Liu et al, Zentropy Theory for Positive and Negative Thermal Expansion, Journal of Phase Equilibria and Diffusion (2022). DOI: 10.1007/s11669-022-00942-z
A diffractive neural network that can be flexibly programmed
Mar 2022, phys.org
Programmable Artificial Intelligence Machine (PAIM).
via Southeast University, Peking University and Pazhou Laboratory in China: Che Liu et al, A programmable diffractive deep neural network based on a digital-coding metasurface array, Nature Electronics (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41928-022-00719-9
The 25 happiest US city park systems, ranked by scientists
Apr 2022, phys.org
The Hedonometer
via University of Vermont: Gauging the happiness benefit of US urban parks through Twitter, PLoS ONE (2022). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0261056
Study improves the understanding of superconductivity in magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene
Apr 2022, phys.org
Magic-Angle Twisted Trilayer Graphene
They just keep adding more words. First it was twisted graphene, then they found a magic angle to the twist that made it even more conductive, and then they realized the graphene sandwiches, maybe nanosandwiches.
via Brown University: Xiaoxue Liu et al, Isospin order in superconducting magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene, Nature Physics (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-022-01515-0
Treating diabetes without drugs? Novel non-pharmacologic treatments are on the horizon
Apr 2022, phys.org
Bioelectronic Medicine
It modulates the body's nervous system.
via Yale: Victoria Cotero et al, Stimulation of the hepatoportal nerve plexus with focused ultrasound restores glucose homoeostasis in diabetic mice, rats and swine, Nature Biomedical Engineering (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41551-022-00870-w
In a sea of magic angles, 'twistons' keep electrons flowing through three layers of graphene
Apr 2022, phys.org
Twistons
(vs magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene, who wins?)
via Columbia University Quantum Initiative: Simon Turkel, Joshua Swann, et al. Orderly disorder in magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene. Science 376, 193-199 (2022) DOI: 10.1126/science.abk1895
Researchers identify a new treatment for metabolic syndrome
Apr 2022, phys.org
A Receptor Trap
"We used the discovery of the asprosin-receptor to develop a new drug called a receptor trap,"
via University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center: Mishra et al, Protein tyrosine phosphatase receptor δ serves as the orexigenic asprosin receptor, Cell Metabolism (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2022.02.012
Optical vortex crystals for photonic simulations of complex systems
Apr 2022, phys.org
This one's packed: twisted light generators, light vortices, ordered light crystals, nanostructured optical devices, metasurface array, laser cavity
via Italian Institute of Technology: Marco Piccardo, Vortex laser arrays with topological charge control and self-healing of defects, Nature Photonics (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41566-022-00986-0.
A protein that detects cold and menthol may also be key to migraine headaches
Apr 2022, phys.org
Migraineurs
"Those who experience migraine are known as migraineurs"
via University of Southern California: Chao Wei et al, Transient receptor potential melastatin 8 (TRPM8) is required for nitroglycerin and calcitonin gene-related peptide induced migraine-like pain behaviors in mice, Pain (2022). DOI: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002635
Research discovers new bacteria that stick to plastic in the deep sea to travel around the ocean
Apr 2022, phys.org
The Plastisphere
Deep-sea bacteria traveling on plastic particles comprise the 'plastisphere'. Don't forget that the anthropocene is then in fact mostly defined by the plastisphere, albeit the one that's in the geological record.
Also: Newcastle University scientists have found new types of plastic loving bacteria that stick to plastic in the deep sea that may enable them to 'hitchhike' across the ocean.
Thinking about the Metabolism of the Anthroposphere and other very large systems, and how it's thought that the dinosaurs changed the biosphere by transporting seeds across the primeval Earth and over millions of years.
What happens in a million years now that we've given a very small slice of the bacteria kingdom the means to travel across the globe in ways never seen before?
via Newcastle University: Max R. Kelly et al, Bacterial colonisation of plastic in the Rockall Trough, North-East Atlantic: An improved understanding of the deep-sea plastisphere, Environmental Pollution (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2022.119314
Direct printing of nanodiamonds at the quantum level
May 2022, phys.org
Just Quantum Nanodiamonds
via University of Hong Kong: Zhaoyi Xu et al, On‐Demand, Direct Printing of Nanodiamonds at the Quantum Level, Advanced Science (2021). DOI: 10.1002/advs.202103598
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