New climate plans must supercharge energy transition, says UN’s Guterres

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for governments to “go all-out” on the energy transition by ensuring their new national climate plans help increase clarity and certainty about the switch…

Why the Psychopathic Brain Struggles With Emotion and Control

Summary: New research reveals how structural brain connectivity shapes psychopathic traits and externalizing behaviors. Using advanced connectome modeling, scientists identified two key networks: one tied to impaired emotional processing, the…

Cellular senescence may be to blame for some diseases

General mechanisms of cellular senescence. Credit: Experimental & Molecular Medicine (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s12276-025-01480-7 Cellular senescence is a process in which the cell cycle becomes permanently arrested, thereby inhibiting cell division,…

Tokenizers and decoders enable editing and inpainting without generators

A system capable of generating images normally requires a tokenizer, which compresses and encodes visual data, along with a generator that can combine and arrange these compact representations in order…

GLP Spaces on X: Misinfo from the mainstream. Hypocritical pediatricians blast RFK Jr.’s anti-vaxx stance while flouting consensus on GMOs

You can’t be a stalwart defender of scientific consensus, expertise and evidence-based medicine while taking contrarian positions on critical public health issues because it suits your ideology. Cherry-picking the science…

Anti-obesity medications associated with weight rebound post-treatment

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Patients prescribed drugs to help them lose weight may experience a rebound in weight gain after halting their prescription, finds a meta-analysis published in BMC Medicine.…

Most Mental Illnesses Arise Without Family History

Summary: A massive Danish study shows that most mental illnesses—like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression—occur in people with no close family history of the condition. Analyzing data from over 3…

Bronze armour discovery dates from time of Trojan War

Archaeologists from the Brno City Museum have announced the discovery of a bronze armour fragment dating from the Late Bronze Age. The fragment was discovered at an undisclosed site in…

How NASA saved a camera from 370 million miles away

The north polar region of Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io was captured by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA’s Juno during the spacecraft’s 57th close pass of the gas giant on Dec.…

How social media can help abuse survivors heal

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain New research from The University of Texas at Arlington reveals that social media platforms can play a potentially life-saving role for young people navigating difficult circumstances…