Summary: Children raised in disadvantaged neighborhoods may show blunted brain responses to rewards and losses, especially if they have a family history of depression. New research reveals that community-level stress,…
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Health assessment tool gauges body’s biological age better than current methods
The Health Octo Tool is comprised of eight components designed to assess multidimensional health. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-58819-x A novel health-assessment tool uses eight metrics derived from a…
Computer scientists create algorithm to protect videos from quantum hacking
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Researchers at FIU’s College of Engineering and Computing have developed an encryption algorithm to defend videos from attackers with access to the world’s most powerful computers.…
Major study transforms understanding of Roman Augusta Raurica
In advance of construction works in the “Schürmatt” district of Kaiseraugst, archaeologists have unearthed significant Roman remains in the former settlement of Augusta Raurica. Augusta Raurica, formerly Rauracorum, was a…
Ancient poems document the decline of the Yangtze finless porpoise
The porpoise is critically endangered. Ancient Chinese poems reveal the animal’s range has dropped about 65 percent over the past 1,400 years.
New quantum theory of gravity brings long-sought ‘theory of everything’ a crucial step closer
The gravity quantum field is calculated in flat spacetime. The curved classical metric is calculated using the expectation value of the gravity quantum field. Credit: Aalto University At long last,…
Is it dangerous to kiss someone who’s eaten gluten if you have celiac disease?
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Celiac disease is not a food allergy or intolerance. It’s an autoimmune disease that makes the body attack the small intestine if gluten (found in wheat,…
Frog ribbits erupt via an extravagant variety of vocal sacs
Here’s a great case of real life turning out to be stranger than fiction. From baby’s first storybook to sly adult graphic novels, the story we’re told is the same:…
