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Fear Sync: How Males and Females Respond to Stress Together
When mice face fear, they often freeze—and when paired, they typically freeze together. A new study reveals that male-female pairs maintain...
neurosciencenews.com - 9 days ago
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You Might Think of Shrimp as Bugs of the Sea. But a Remarkable Discovery Shows the Opposite: Bugs Are Actually Shrimp of the Land
A recent study suggests that insects branched out from crustaceans on the tree of life Shrimp look an awful lot like bugs. The exoskeletons, jointed...
smithsonianmag.com - 9 days ago
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Review of Thousands of Studies Confirms Best Way to Keep Memory Sharp
Many of us turn to Sudoku, Wordle or brain-training apps to sharpen our minds. But research is increasingly showing one of the best ways to...
sciencealert.com - 9 days ago
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Rare books covered with seal skin hint at a medieval trade network
The furry seal skins may have made their way to French monasteries from as far away as Greenland....
sciencenews.org - 9 days ago
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Largest mammalian brain map ever could unpick what makes us human
The largest and most comprehensive 3D map of a mammalian brain to date offers an unprecedented insight into how neurons connect and function. The new...
newscientist.com - 9 days ago
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Australia on the verge of diabetes breakthrough
Australian researchers are taking the final steps towards being the first in the world to take pancreatic islet cells from genetically modified pigs...
cosmosmagazine.com - 9 days ago
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Low Vitamin K Intake May Accelerate Age-Related Memory Decline
A new study reveals that insufficient vitamin K may harm brain health and memory as we age. In rodent models, a vitamin K-deficient diet led...
neurosciencenews.com - 9 days ago
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How the Brain Separates Touch We Choose vs. Touch We Receive
Touch is a vital sense, yet the brain processes active and passive touch using distinct pathways. In mice, researchers found that different regions...
neurosciencenews.com - 9 days ago
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Breakthrough implant reads your thoughts and converts them to speech
A new thought-reading brain implant is giving people who can’t speak a chance to communicate again. Developed by researchers at UC Berkeley, this...
bgr.com - 9 days ago
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What’s new in STAT’s Generative AI Tracker? (spoiler: AI agents)
As a STAT+ subscriber, you have access to our STAT trackers — including our Breakthrough Device Tracker, Obesity Drug Tracker, and CRISPR Trackr...
statnews.com - 9 days ago
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Physicists create hottest Schrödinger's cat ever in quantum technology breakthrough
Physicists have replicated the famous Schrödinger's cat experiment at hotter temperatures than ever before. The breakthrough is a small but...
livescience.com - 9 days ago
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Psychedelics Could Transform How We Sleep—Or If We Even Need It at All, New Theory Claims
Hallucinogens like DMT, psilocin, and LSD might rewrite the rules of sleep, blurring the line between dreams and reality. You’re weightless. Colors bloom and...
popularmechanics.com - 9 days ago
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The Carrington Event, History’s Greatest Solar Storm In 1859, Was Even More Powerful Than Once Thought
The Carrington Event – the biggest solar storm on record – was so strong it blew the capacity of the measuring devices....
iflscience.com - 9 days ago
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A 30,000-Year-Old Feather Is a First-of-Its-Kind Fossil
Valentina Rossi first saw the 30,000-year-old griffon vulture as a master’s student in Rome in 2014. The fossil, which had been found by a local...
eos.org - 9 days ago
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With new database researchers may be able to predict rare milky seas bioluminescent, glowing event
Researchers have compiled a database of sightings over the last 400 years Milky seas are a rare bioluminescent phenomenon where vast areas of the...
sciencedaily.com - 9 days ago
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2,000 Years Ago, the Greeks Built What May Be the World’s First Computer
Will we ever fully understand how it works? The year is 72 B.C.E., and the Roman Republic has already punched a one-way ticket toward...
popularmechanics.com - 9 days ago
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'Fingerprints of cancer' found after scientists flash infrared light pulses at blood samples
A new, AI-powered test can detect the molecular "fingerprints" of cancer in a patient's blood using flashes of infrared light. Flashes of infrared...
livescience.com - 9 days ago
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The sky is brighter than astronomers imagined
Although we’ve now firmly entered the JWST era in astronomy, our deepest views of the faintest objects of all still come courtesy of the...
bigthink.com - 9 days ago
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New urinal designs use physics to prevent pee splashback
Behold the ‘Cornucopia’ and the ‘Nautilus.’ Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Urinals aren’t a new concept. In fact, some of the earliest known...
popsci.com - 9 days ago
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The Map of Mathematics: Animation Shows How All the Different Fields in Math Fit Together
Back in December, you hopefully thoroughly immersed yourself in The Map of Physics, an animated video–a visual aid for the modern age–that mapped...
openculture.com - 9 days ago
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Scientists map part of a mouse's brain that's so complex it looks like a galaxy
WASHINGTON (AP) — Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date – a diagram...
apnews.com - 9 days ago
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Neanderthal Markings Found In Sealed Cave
A Whole Other Species With 8 or so billion of us on the planet, it’s hard to imagine that there was a time when we...
splashtravels.com - 9 days ago
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The neurobiology of trauma: How childhood adversity alters brain development
In 1966, Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu introduced extreme policies to increase the country’s birth rate. This led to the widespread abandonment...
psypost.org - 9 days ago
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Could Stonehenge Be a Copy of This Even More Ancient Monument?
At a newly dated 5,200 years old, the Flagstones monument in southern England is now the oldest known large stone circle in Britain. Radiocarbon...
sciencealert.com - 9 days ago
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Idaho restricts vaccine mandates
Idaho will enforce a first-in-the-nation ban on vaccine mandates in businesses and schools this summer after legislators on the last day of their...
axios.com - 9 days ago
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Light-based computers are getting close to a commercial launch
Computers that use light rather than electricity to represent and manipulate data could slash the power demands of data centres and simultaneously...
newscientist.com - 9 days ago
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A biotech company says it has bred three pups with traits of the extinct dire wolf
A biotech company says it has bred three animals with key physical features of the dire wolf — a species that has been extinct for more...
npr.org - 9 days ago
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A Net-Zero World Will Have Fewer Trade Wars
That’s according to new research published today analyzing flows of minerals and metals vs. fossil fuels. Among fossil fuel companies and clean energy...
heatmap.news - 9 days ago
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New Evidence Debunks the Theory That Dinosaurs Were Declining Before the Asteroid
New research suggests the theory that dinosaurs were declining before Chicxulub is the result of a poor (and misleading) fossil record. Dinosaurs were...
discovermagazine.com - 10 days ago
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What Did Dinosaurs Taste Like? Probably Not Like Chicken
Learn why it's so difficult to know what dinosaurs would have tasted like, and what some experts hypothesize. If an expansive Mesozoic menu was laid...
discovermagazine.com - 10 days ago
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DNA From 7,000-Year-Old Mummies Reveals Lost Society From Sahara
Two ancient mummies reveal a mysterious, isolated lineage in North Africa....
zmescience.com - 10 days ago
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We may have to rethink consciousness completely. Here's why
In their quest to pinpoint the start of human consciousness, neuroscientists are diving into some truly bizarre territory If you’re reading this, you...
sciencefocus.com - 10 days ago
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Origins of schizophrenia linked to epigenetics of the placenta
Epigenetic changes in the placenta may shape how the fetal brain develops and thus influence the risk of psychiatric disorders. Scientists have...
livescience.com - 10 days ago
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Revealed – what’s behind sudden death syndrome in young people
Swedish researchers may have helped to prevent premature deaths from Sudden Arrhythmic Death syndrome (SADS). Exploration of a decade-long patient...
cosmosmagazine.com - 10 days ago
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The Dire Wolf, an Extinct Canine that Roamed Prehistoric America, Has Been Resurrected
Thousands of years ago, as the Earth’s last ice age began its transition into the Holocene epoch, massive land mammals that once populated the...
thedebrief.org - 10 days ago
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Neuroscience study reveals how breathing shapes brain activity during anxiety
A recent study published in The Journal of Neuroscience has found evidence for a link between breathing patterns and brain activity during anxious...
psypost.org - 10 days ago
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Rain barrel basics: Conserving water but not mosquito habitats
As people look to reduce their water use for environmental and ecological reasons, rain barrels have gained popularity for catching rainwater that...
phys.org - 10 days ago
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Tropical tree in Panama has evolved to kill its 'enemies' with lightning
Tonka bean trees survive lightning strikes — and use the powerful electric shocks to kill their competitors. Lightning is usually seen as a harbinger...
livescience.com - 11 days ago
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Humanity Is Closer Than Ever to Living Underwater—And Our First Undersea Birth Could Happen By 2050
A U.K. startup wants to be the SpaceX of the deep sea, and hopes to establish a permanent human residence on the ocean floor...
popularmechanics.com - 11 days ago
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What is reinforcement learning? An AI researcher explains a key method of teaching machines – and how it relates to training your dog
Understanding intelligence and creating intelligent machines are grand scientific challenges of our time s. The ability to learn from experience is a...
theconversation.com - 11 days ago
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Intelligence Evolved at Least Twice in Vertebrate Animals
Complex neural circuits likely arose independently in birds and mammals, suggesting that vertebrates evolved intelligence multiple time s. Humans tend...
quantamagazine.org - 11 days ago
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130,000-year-old mammoth calf smells like 'fermented earth and flesh,' necropsy reveals
Researchers have performed a necropsy on a 130,000-year-old baby mammoth preserved in the Siberian permafrost. Russian scientists have cut open and...
livescience.com - 11 days ago
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When great white sharks vanished from False Bay, it triggered something disturbing
There has been a dramatic ripple effect since the apex predators disappeared from the 30km-wide bay on the southern tip of South Africa, say...
discoverwildlife.com - 11 days ago
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Scientists Discovered 7,000-Year-Old Mummies in the Desert That Don’t Share DNA With Modern Humans
This ancient people lived in the Sahara when it was a much more welcoming environment. Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the...
popularmechanics.com - 11 days ago
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The Largest Prehistoric Crocodile Ever Discovered Is Pure Nightmare Fuel
Not even Steve Irwin would want to take on the beast known as "super croc." Sarcosuchus imperator, as it is technically known, was a prehistoric...
sciencing.com - 11 days ago
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New insight into how dogs see their world through smell
• Dogs see their world through smell. A dog’s nose has almost twice as many scent receptors as a human.• New tools are helping researchers...
earthsky.org - 12 days ago
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Test Shows Alcohol Causing Long-Term Brain Damage
We'll drink to that — or not, as the case may be. In new rat studies, scientists have found grim evidence of just how badly alcohol...
futurism.com - 13 days ago
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Rising odds asteroid that briefly threatened Earth will hit moon
A huge asteroid that was briefly feared to strike Earth now has a nearly 4% chance of smashing into the moon, according to new data from...
phys.org - 14 days ago
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JWST finds spiral galaxy about 5 time s more massive than Milky Way — scientists call it 'Big Wheel'
It existed just 2 billion years after the Big Bang. A team of astronomers at the University of Milano-Bicocca has uncovered a colossal spiral galaxy...
space.com - 14 days ago
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Endangered tortoise, roughly 97, becomes oldest first- time mom of her species
Mommy’s four Galapagos tortoise hatchlings will go on public view at Philadelphia Zoo starting April 23. A rare Western Santa Cruz Galápagos tortoise who...
washingtonpost.com - 14 days ago
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