Summary: Higher cortisol levels, a stress hormone, during the third trimester of pregnancy may boost speech and language skills in early childhood. A new study analyzed data from over 1,000…
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Astronomers just saw a star eat a planet—an astrophysicist on the team explains the first-of-its-kind discovery
For the first time, astronomers have captured images that show a star consuming one of its planets. The star, named ZTF SLRN-2020, is located in the Milky Way galaxy, in…
Binge eating linked to habit circuitry in the brain
Types of eating behavior and binge eating frequency. Relationship between Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire a) Restrained (ρ=-0.11, p=0.55), b) Emotional (ρ=0.32, p=0.063), and c) Externally Driven Eating (ρ=0.44, p=0.0092) with…
Linda Yaccarino to bring vaunted ad skills to Twitter
Newly announced Twitter chief Linda Yaccarino told Elon Musk during a recent marketing conference interview that content moderation and safety are part of a formula to get advertisers to spend…
Executive fired from TikTok’s Chinese owner says Beijing had access to app data in termination suit
This Feb. 25, 2020, file photo, shows the icon for TikTok in New York. A former executive at TikTok’s parent company ByteDance has accused the tech giant of serving as…
3 takeaways from the exchange
Twitter CEO Elon Musk, center, speaks with Linda Yaccarino, chairman of global advertising and partnerships for NBC, at the POSSIBLE marketing conference, Tuesday, April 18, 2023, in Miami Beach, Fla.…
Restoring control to a particular brain region may help to prevent return to use of opioids
Pyramidal neurons in the prefrontal cortex labeled with a retrograde virus tagged with mCherry. Credit: Medical University of South Carolina. Dr. Jacqueline McGinty. A team of neuroscientists at the Medical…
NASA’s Perseverance Images May Show Record of Wild Martian River
Years ago, scientists noticed a series of curving bands of layered rock within Jezero Crater that they dubbed “the curvilinear unit.” They could see these layers from space but are…
Largest US public utility switching from coal to gas, despite proposed EPA carbon pollution limits
The nation’s largest public utility released plans Friday to build a new natural gas plant in Tennessee, largely dismissing renewable energy alternatives one day after the Biden administration proposed strict…
