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Has Plastoline made gasoline renewable and free?

Has Plastoline made gasoline renewable and free? @naturejab is a content creator who’s claimed to be able to recycle plastic into a fuel dubbed “plastoline” using solar-powered microwave pyrolysis for free. Having amassed over 76 million views on his flagship TikTok…

Caffeine in E-Sports

References: Wu, SH., Chen, YC., Chen, CH. et al. (2024). Caffeine supplementation improves the cognitive abilities and shooting performance of elite e-sports players: a crossover trial. Sci Rep 14, 2074

Benchmarking Machine Learning for Basketball Performance

A recent study published in Knowledge and Information Systems shows us an analysis of machine learning (ML) models for predicting the future performance of  basketball players. This study tested 14 different ML models against 18 basketball statistics and Key Performance…