Summary: Neuroscientists have uncovered how sensory input is transformed into motor action across multiple brain regions in mice. The study shows that decision-making is a distributed process across the brain,…
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Pictish ring discovered at Burghead Fort
Archaeologists from the University of Aberdeen have discovered a rare Pictish ring during excavations of Burghead Fort in the town of Burghead in Moray Scotland. Burghead Fort was a promontory…
The dangers of sleep deprivation
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Most of us will be all too familiar with that dopey, groggy feeling of being tired after a restless night. Some social media users have taken…
Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope produces its first magnetic field maps of the sun’s corona
The NSF Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope presents its first map of the solar coronal magnetic field signals as measured using the Zeeman Effect. The Zeeman Effect polarizes the coronal…
‘DeepFake-o-Meter’ democratizes deepfake detection
Lyu works with postdoctoral researcher Shan Jai in the UB Media Forensics Lab. Credit: Meredith Forrest Kulwicki/University at Buffalo When misleading information spreads online, it can spread fast. Yet many…
Discovery of a new phase of matter in 2D defies normal statistical mechanics
The quasiperiodic landscape in which the new Bose glass forms, similar to a Penrose tiling. Credit: Many-body Quantum Dynamics Lab / Cavendish Laboratory Physicists from the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge…
Inflation Delaying New Phone Buys for Many Americans: Study
Inflation is causing many consumers to pass on upgrading to a new cell phone this year, according to a survey conducted by an online personal finance platform. The survey of…
Mystery of dwarf planet Ceres’ origin may finally be solved, thanks to retired NASA spacecraft
Scientists have used data from a long-retired NASA Dawn spacecraft to solve the mystery surrounding the origins of the strange dwarf planet Ceres. Ceres currently resides in the main asteroid…
