Neuroscie

Why Humans Adapt Faster Than AI

Summary: Humans excel at adapting to new situations, while machines often stumble. A new interdisciplinary study reveals that the root lies in how humans and AI approach “generalization,” the process…

Brain Circuits Show Why Friends’ Lies Are Easier to Believe

Summary: Researchers explored how people process deception from friends versus strangers, using brain imaging to study decision-making in gain and loss contexts. Volunteers were more likely to believe lies in…

PET Tracer Maps Synapse Loss After Spinal Cord Injury

Summary: Researchers developed a new PET tracer capable of measuring synapse loss after spinal cord injury, offering insights into both spinal and brain changes. In rat models, the tracer revealed…

Your Words May Reveal More Than You Think: AI Shows How

Summary: Psychologists are turning to artificial intelligence to uncover hidden psychological cues in speech, from word choice to tone and pacing. These signals can reveal personality traits and even early…

Life

Nature

Newfound bat skeletons are the oldest on record

Two fossilized bat skeletons unearthed in western Wyoming represent a new species and are the oldest set of bat bones yet discovered, researchers say. The incredibly complete fossils of Icaronycteris…

Astronomy

Scientists detected a potential biosignature on Mars—an astrobiologist explains the findings

Study finds exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e is unlikely to have a Venus- or Mars-like atmosphere

New research using the James Webb Telescope rules out possible atmospheric conditions of the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e, depicted at the lower right as it transits in front of its host star.…

Planets without plate tectonics and too little carbon dioxide could mean that technological alien life is rare

An artist’s impression of the rocky, habitable-zone exoplanet Kepler-168b. Credit: NASA Ames/NASA/JPL–Caltech/Tim Pyle (Caltech). The closest technological species to us in the Milky Way galaxy could be 33,000 light years…

Where did the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS come from?

The Gemini South Observatory captured this image of the interstellar comet 3L/ATLAS on August 27th. It shows the object’s fuzzy coma and tail, made of volatiles released by the sun’s…