Новости за 28.01.2021

A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Radboud University and TiCC Tilburg University, all in The Netherlands, has found that hand gestures used by people when speaking can influence how their words are being heard and interpreted by others. In their paper published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the group describes experiments with volunteers who watched videos of people speaking with and without hand gestures.

Worldwide, over one billion people live with a disability. Historically, they have been discriminated against and stigmatized by society. To improve their rights, they should be included in political decision-making, yet there is a lack of political representatives who are known to have a disability. This under-representation may be due to several factors, including how voters perceive a political candidate with a disability. However, a new study published in Frontiers in Political Science, found... Читать дальше...

Despite all the advances in consumer technology over the past decades, one component has remained frustratingly stagnant: the optical lens. Unlike electronic devices, which have gotten smaller and more efficient over the years, the design and underlying physics of today's optical lenses haven't changed much in about 3,000 years.

Just a little soap helps clean up the challenging process of preparing two-dimensional hexagonal boron nitride (hBN).