diffusion

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A team from Cambridge's MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit analyzed MRI diffusion scans from 3,802 individuals ranging from newborns to 90 years old.

From Science Daily

In photochemistry, light energizes the catalyst, and the excited catalyst must encounter another molecule through diffusion in order to pass along an electron.

From Science Daily

Driven by diffusion, boiling water molecules will penetrate to the center of a strand of typical-thickness spaghetti in about 10 minutes.

From National Geographic

In a recent preprint study, Sarkar and his colleagues in Madrid and Edinburgh conducted a similar experiment with a type of AI image generator called a diffusion model.

From Scientific American

So why did Europeans serve as agents of diffusion for this idea?

From Salon