Briefly informed: nuclear fusion, pain therapy, social media, Sony Playstation
Union calls for investments in nuclear fusion
The CDU/CSU parliamentary group wants to ensure that research on nuclear fusion in Germany is advanced quickly. In an application for the Bundestag, which is available on heise online, she calls on the federal government to “commission two fusion reactors with competing technology in Germany” and to submit a proposal for “innovation-friendly regulation of fusion technology” to the responsible Bundestag committees. Efforts in the USA, but also in China, South Korea, Japan and Great Britain show that more venture capital is now flowing into fusion technology. “If Germany does not act, there is a risk that further technology development will start here without German participation,” the Union fears.
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Biomarkers for chronic pain
Brain signals can be used to determine how severe a person’s pain is. According to a new study, this could revolutionize the treatment of certain chronic pain conditions. The University of California, San Francisco study, published in Nature Neuroscience, is the first to record subjects’ brain signals associated with chronic pain. The crux is that everyone experiences pain in different ways. Therefore, there is no magic formula to combat them. The team hopes that mapping individual biomarkers will enable more targeted therapeutic use of electrical brain stimulation.
Health risks from social media
US Public Health Director Vivek Murthy has warned of the negative impact of social media on young people’s mental health. He now called on politicians, industry and society to do more to ensure that social networks are less harmful to children and young people. The Surgeon General cites studies as justification for his warning, according to which the use of social media leads to dissatisfaction with one’s own body, eating disorders and low self-esteem, especially among older girls. In addition, associations were found between excessive social media use and poor sleep quality, as well as depression. Murthy therefore sees a great need for more research on the subject.
Sony invests in multiplayer titles
Sony wants to invest more money in multiplayer titles for the Playstation in the future. This emerges from a current financial presentation of the Japanese company. It is primarily about so-called “live service games”, i.e. multiplayer games that are continuously supplied with new content and generate long-term income through microtransactions. Sony has recently bought several development studios that work on such multiplayer titles.
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