Neuroscie
Mapping the Link Between Personality and Cognitive Decline
Summary: A new study has identified three psychological profiles that influence brain health, cognitive decline, and dementia risk in aging adults. Profiles with high protective traits, like purpose and openness,…
How Our Brains Perceive Body Weight Differs From Objects
Summary: Research reveals that how we perceive the size and weight of body parts, such as hands, differs from our perception of objects. For objects, smaller items feel heavier than…
Decoding Favoritism: How Parents Shape Sibling Bonds
Summary: New research sheds light on how parents subtly favor children based on birth order, personality, and gender, shaping family dynamics. Younger siblings often receive more favorable treatment, while older…
Brain Connectivity Patterns Link Vascular Disease to Cognitive Decline
Summary: Researchers have identified how cerebrovascular disease (CeVD) disrupts brain connectivity, contributing to cognitive decline and neurodegeneration alongside Alzheimer’s disease (AD). By studying brain networks and blood biomarkers in older…
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
A seed-sized signal amplifier chip could boost space communications
Credit: ESA-SJM Photography Smaller than a strawberry seed, this tiny signal amplifier was produced by the European Space Agency to fill a missing link in current technology, helping to make…
An even ghostlier neutrino may rule the universe
One of the Daya Bay detectors. Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Strange “right-handed” neutrinos may be responsible for all the matter in the universe, according to new research.…
The first supernovae flooded the early universe with water, research suggests
This artist’s impression shows CR7 a very distant galaxy discovered using ESO’s Very Large Telescope. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser Water is the essence of life. Every living thing on Earth contains…
Image: Earth in far-ultraviolet
Credit: NASA On April 21, 1972, NASA astronaut John W. Young, commander of the Apollo 16 mission, took a far-ultraviolet photo of Earth with an ultraviolet camera. Young’s original black-and-white…
