Mayan sculpture depicting face of elderly man found in Sierra Papacal

Image Credit : INAH Archaeologists from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have uncovered a sculpture depicting the face of an elderly man in the ejido of Sierra Papacal,…

Nonsurgical treatment shows promise for targeted seizure control

(Left) Brain section showing targeted gene delivery to the ventral hippocampus, precisely guided by focused ultrasound. (Right) Brain section demonstrating high spatial resolution gene expression achieved across the entire bilateral…

Stress Undermines Brain Circulation, Increases Dementia Risk

Summary: Researchers found that a rare class of neurons—type-one nNOS neurons—plays a central role in regulating brain blood flow and coordinating neural activity in mice. Removing these stress-vulnerable cells caused…

How large language models encode theory-of-mind

How to spot life in the clouds on other worlds

Artist concept of a cloudy Earth-like exoplanet with colorful biota in the clouds. Credit: Adam B. Langeveld/Carl Sagan Institute. Adapted from NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech. Cloud cover is bad for picnics and for…

Giving Gemini its due: ‘Apollo 13’ author Jeffrey Kluger honors ‘forgotten’ NASA program with new book (exclusive interview)

NASA’s 10 crewed Project Gemini flights, which launched in 1965 and 1966, were instrumental in delivering the knowledge and testing that would lead to landing astronauts on the moon in…

Porous separators boost efficiency of electrolyzers for carbon monoxide reduction

Once-weekly eloralintide leads to 20% weight loss in Phase II trial

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A multicenter team including Endeavor Health and Eli Lilly found that once-weekly eloralintide produced dose-dependent weight loss up to 20% over 48 weeks in adults with…

On-chip cryptographic protocol lets quantum computers self-verify results amid hardware noise

The Quantinuum H1 Quantum Processing Unit, used in the recent study. Credit: Quantinuum. Quantum computers, machines that process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, could outperform classical computers on some optimization…

T cell therapies show long-term HPV gains

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers from Rutgers Cancer Institute, New Jersey’s only National Cancer Institute (NCI)—designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, and RWJBarnabas Health, along with colleagues from the National Cancer Institute,…