A Prelude to Speech: How the Brain Forms Words

Summary: Researchers made a groundbreaking discovery on how the human brain forms words before speaking. By utilizing Neuropixels probes, they’ve mapped out how neurons represent speech sounds and assemble them…

Shaping Empathy: Adult Brains Can Learn Compassion

Summary: Empathy, often considered a fixed trait, has been shown to be malleable in adults, influenced by observing the empathetic reactions of others. The study utilized Computational Modeling and functional…

Research examines 700 plant-based foods to see how healthy they really are

Vegetarian burger. Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain If you’re thinking about buying plant-based foods, a trip to the supermarket can leave you bewildered. There are plant-based burgers, sausages and mince. The…

New cell-based immunotherapy offered for melanoma

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Siteman Cancer Center, based at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, is one of the first centers nationwide to offer a…

Why bans on smartphones or social media for teenagers could do more harm than good

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain There are growing calls for young people under the age of 16 to be banned from having smartphones or access to social media. The Smartphone Free…

Human-like real-time sketching by a humanoid robot

TEO the UC3M Robotics Lab humanoid robot painting a flower. Credit: Fernandez-Fernandez et al The rapid advancement of deep learning algorithms and generative models has enabled the automated production of…

Anti-satellite systems are indiscriminate, posing a risk to everyone’s spacecraft

In the United States, landlines are languishing

In a Saturday Nov. 12, 2011 photo, rows of old and newer telephones along with office switchboards are in the museum operated by members of the Parkersburg Council of the…

Electric bike injuries, hospitalizations increased significantly in recent years

The incidence of electric bicycle (e-bicycle)-related injuries, particularly head injuries, has surged in the United States since 2017, according to a research letter published online Feb. 21 in JAMA Surgery.…

Private US spacecraft is on its side on the moon with some antennas covered up, the company says

On Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024 the Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus lunar lander captures a wide field of view image of Schomberger crater on the Moon approximately 125 miles (200 km) uprange…