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  1. 🐭Did we meet? Just like humans, sleepy mice forget their social encounters after a bad night.

    Neuroscientist Robbert Havekes & UG team found that the asthma drug roflumilast brings back these social memories after sleep deprivation.😴

    Curious? Read more 👇
    🔗rug.nl/fse/news/highlighted-pa

    🧪 #SciComm #ScienceNewsroom #neuroscience #biology #neurobiology #nature #memory #hippocampus #research #science #engineering #scientistsOnMastodon
    @universityofgroningen

  2. 🔋There is a small chance that rechargeable #lithium batteries will ignite, leak or even explode.🧯

    How to make them safer?

    Giuseppe Portale, Ass. Prof. of #Polymerchemistry and #Physics at the UG, and his team are building safer small coin batteries using solid #polymers.🪙

    Read our 3rd story on #batterydevelopers of #FSE 👇
    🔗 rug.nl/fse/news/science-in-foc

    🧪 #SciComm #ScienceNewsroom #lithiumbattery #polymerscience #research #polymer #chemistry #ScientistsOnMastodon @universityofgroningen