Summary: Researchers have uncovered shared biological mechanisms across major psychiatric disorders by analyzing postmortem brain samples from the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. Instead of looking at gene expression broadly, they zoomed…
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As EU enacts new greenwash rules, funds remove climate labels
Financial firms dropped terms like “ESG” (Environmental, Social and Governance) and “sustainable” from the names of hundreds of their funds in the year before new European Union rules to clamp…
Privacy abuse involving Meta and Yandex discovered
Overview diagram representing the exchange of identifiers between the web trackers running on the browser context and native android apps controlling and generating persistent IDs using localhost sockets Credit: IMDEA…
Why do our pupils dilate when we’re aroused? Anatomy experts explain
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain His gaze softens as he draws closer to you. With one hand around your waist and the other cradling your jaw, he pulls you in. You…
When the sun dies, could life survive on the Jupiter ocean moon Europa?
Can life survive in the solar system once the sun dies and becomes a red giant star? New research suggests there may be a narrow window of possibility for life…
Is methylene blue really a brain booster? A pharmacologist explains the science
The internet is abuzz with tributes to a liquid chemical called methylene blue that is being sold as a health supplement. Over the past five or 10 years, methylene blue…
Brain connections at 3 months predict infant emotional development
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Scientists have uncovered remarkable insights into how the earliest brain connections shape infant emotional development, potentially offering new ways to identify children at risk for future…
Rare Isotopes Shed Light on the Size of a Neutrino Wavepacket
The Science Newswise — Neutrinos are among the most abundant yet least understood particles in the universe. Now, nuclear scientists have measured the tiny energy of lithium atoms recoiling from the emission of…
Eating healthier can protect aging brain
It’s never too late to start eating right as a means of protecting your brain health, a new study says. People who improved their healthy eating in middle-age had a…
