In this ‘Behind the Paper’ blog post, author Qiwen Guo, a PhD student in the Institute of Forest Ecology at BOKU University in Vienna, discusses her new article ‘Above- and…
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Why fears of a trillion-dollar AI bubble are growing
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain For almost as long as the artificial intelligence boom has been in full swing, there have been warnings of a speculative bubble that could rival the…
The ‘hard, slow work’ of reducing overdose deaths is having an effect
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Illicit drug overdoses and the deaths they cause are trending down this year, despite spikes in a handful of states, according to a Stateline analysis of…
Urban living linked to chronic stress epidemic in modern humans
According to Shaw, protecting spaces that resemble those from our hunter-gatherer past is in the interest of public health. Credit: Barbara Simpson Chronic stress is on the rise—the result of…
Evidence mounts that dark energy weakens over time
DESI is a state-of-the-art instrument which maps distant objects to study dark energy. Credit: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab The universe’s expansion may actually have started to slow rather than accelerating at…
Oxidative Stress May Drive Repetitive Behaviors Linked to Autism, OCD
Summary: A new study shows that oxidative stress—an imbalance between damaging molecules and antioxidants—may contribute to repetitive behaviors observed in mice, similar to those seen in autism spectrum disorder and…
Astronomers reveal tasty insights into exoplanet formation using SPAM
The NIRC2 image of dust around a young star named HD34282 (left) produced using an algorithm to construct images from aperture masking interferometry data. The light from the star is removed and…
Secrets of Aguada Fénix revealed – a 1,000-year-old Cosmogram
Archaeologists have made a monumental discovery at the Aguada Fénix site in Tabasco – a 1,000-year-old Cosmogram that served as a material map of the universe. Aguada Fénix was first…
Early Trauma Hardwires the Brain for Aggression and Self-Harm
Summary: A new study reveals that aggression and self-harm share a biological foundation in the brain’s response to early-life trauma. Researchers discovered that trauma increases activity in calcium channels within…
