Pregnancy and Body Image Perception

Summary: A novel meta-analysis, encapsulating insights from 5,200 pregnant and 4,172 non-pregnant women, uncovers the multifaceted impacts of pregnancy on body image, revealing nuanced individual variations that range from heightened…

French taxi drivers bring unfair competition case against Uber

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Around 2,480 taxi drivers will embark on another round of their latest legal fight against Uber in Paris on Friday accusing the American giant of unfair…

Rewiring the Brain: The Neural Code of Traumatic Memories

Summary: Unveiling the neurological enigma of traumatic memory formation, researchers harnessed innovative optical and machine-learning methodologies to decode the brain’s neuronal networks engaged during trauma memory creation. The team identified…

Is Inflammation in Childhood A Mechanistic Link to Neurodevelopmental Disorders?

Summary: Scientists unveiled a potentially transformative link between early childhood inflammation and the subsequent development of neurodevelopmental disorders, through a pioneering study that utilizes single-cell genomics. By examining brain tissues…

Plastic production via advanced recycling lowers greenhouse gas emissions

New algorithms for intelligent and efficient robot navigation among the crowd

Credit: University of Eastern Finland Service robots have started to appear in various daily tasks such as parcel delivery, as guide dogs for the visually impaired, as public servants at…

Musk’s X rebuffs disinfo claims on Israel violence

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Elon Musk’s social media platform X has defended itself against claims from the European Union that it was failing to tackle disinformation around the violence between…

Hidden Emotions: The Subtle Impact of Facial Color

Summary: Researchers explored how facial color affects our subconscious perception of emotions. Using photos with “hybrid emotions,” they discovered that reddish facial hues enhanced the friendliness of happy expressions without…

Researchers plot a course for building a ‘digital twin’ of the brain

Could robots control whips? Researchers test the extremes of human motor control to advance robotics

Researchers at Northeastern University’s Action Lab are analyzing the movements of whip experts like Jack Lepiarz, known as Jack the Whipper, to understand more about how humans manipulate complex objects.…