The Impact of Violent Neighborhoods on Brain Development

Summary: Children living in violent neighborhoods exhibit increased amygdala reactivity, signaling heightened sensitivity to threats, which can affect mental health and socioemotional functioning. However, nurturing parenting can protect against these…

Climate techno-fixes raise concerns among the UK’s civil servants

The government is relying on special cow food and green plane fuel to cut emissions but its civil servants have grave doubts British civil servants have grave doubts about their…

Scientists discover exotic quantum interference effect in a topological insulator device

A schematic representation of quantum interference of the topological motion of electrons along the symmetry-allowed sample hinges. Credit: Shafayat Hossain, postdoctoral research associate in the Zahid Hasan group at Princeton…

Mothers’ dieting habits and self-talk have profound impact on daughters − 2 psychologists explain how to cultivate healthy behaviors and body image

Weight loss is one of the most common health and appearance-related goals. Women and teen girls are especially likely to pursue dieting to achieve weight loss goals even though a…

Researchers discover underlying cause of brain fog linked with long COVID

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A team of scientists from Trinity College Dublin and investigators from FutureNeuro has announced a major discovery with profound importance for our understanding of brain fog…

‘Beyond what’s possible’: new JWST observations unearth mysterious ancient galaxies

Our understanding of how galaxies form and the nature of dark matter could be completely upended after new observations of a stellar population bigger than the Milky Way from more…

Viewpoint: UK’s organic farming lobby needs to drop its ideological rejection of gene editing if it hopes to remain viable

Families of men with fertility problems show distinct patterns of increased risk for several types of cancer

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain For the first time researchers have identified patterns of risk for several different types of cancer in men with fertility problems and their families. The study,…

An ultrafast SnO₂ passivation strategy for low-temperature manufacture of perovskite solar cells

Automated machine learning from the perspective of bilevel optimization

(a) Illustration of key issues of ML task. (b) Formulation of AutoML paradigm from the perspective of bilevel optimization. Credit: Science China Press Recently, professors Risheng Liu from Dalian University…