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TRP Channel Knockout Mice Lose Their Cool

Heat and cold transduction by peripheral sensory neurons is a fundamental step in the avoidance of dangerous thermal extremes. In this issue of Neuron, Dhaka et al. and Colburn et al. report that mice lacking the cold- and menthol-gated ion channel TRPM8 exhibit deficient behavioral responses to cold temperatures.

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Can Persistent Identifiers Be Cool?

The fast growth of scientific and non-scientific digital data, as well as the proliferation of new types of digital content, has led – among many other things – to a lot of innovative work on the concept of the identifier. Digital identifiers have become the key to preserving and accessing content, just as physical identifier tags have been the key to accessing paper-based content and other phy...

Should cool be a design goal?

Recently HCI researchers have taken an interest in the concept of cool and how it can be harnessed in the design process. This is due to cool’s potential positive impact on adoption and the wider user experience. In this paper we explore the concept of cool and the challenges faced in the study of cool in design. We highlight the lack of rigorous research and causal understanding of cool, the s...

Everybody be cool, this is a roppery!

We present algorithms which allow an attacker to search for and compose gadgets regardless of the underlying architecture using the REIL meta language. Gadgets are code fragments which can be used to build unintended programs from existing code in memory. Our contribution is a framework of algorithms capable of locating a Turing-complete gadget set and a returnoriented compiler for the ARM arch...