Summary: Researchers developed a groundbreaking model called Brain Language Model (BrainLM) using generative artificial intelligence to map brain activity and its implications for behavior and disease. BrainLM leverages 80,000 scans…
Category: Life
Do We Really Learn From Failure?
Summary: A recent study investigated how cardiothoracic surgeons learn from failures, revealing that there is a threshold beyond which they no longer gain knowledge from their mistakes. The research highlights…
The effects of long-term in situ N addition on the Korean pine plantation soil microbes and their regulation of soil priming effect – Functional Ecologists
In this new post, Professor Fuqiang Song of Heilongjiang University presents his work ‘Nitrogen addition suppresses soil positive priming effect in temperate plantations: evidence from an 8-year in situ field…
Getting wild mosquitoes back to the lab alive takes a custom backpack
This backpack isn’t typical hiking gear. Look inside and instead of water and snacks, you’ll see swarms of mosquitoes. Molecular biologist Deogratius Kavishe designed the bag to transport these bloodsucking…
This snake goes to extremes to play dead — and it appears to pay off
To avoid becoming a meal, some animals simply fake it until they make it. And fake deaths with several unappealing elements may make the whole display more efficient, a study…
Lampreys have ‘fight or flight’ cells, challenging ideas about nervous system evolution
With terrifyingly sharp teeth arranged around a circular mouth, lampreys look about as primitive a vertebrate as you could imagine. But a new study finds that the animals have a…
Want to see butterflies in your backyard? Try doing less yardwork
Making the world safer for butterflies can be as easy as doing a bit of nothing. Letting some part of a yard go unmown can boost the number of butterflies…
This orangutan used a medicinal plant on his face wound
With their bright eyes and prominent beards and mustaches, it’s easy to see how orangutans got their name; “orang” is Malay for person, while “hutan” means forest. Their similarity to…
Belugas may communicate by warping a blob of forehead fat
The beluga whale wears its heart on its sleeve — or rather, its forehead. Researchers have created a visual encyclopedia of the different expressions that belugas (Delphinapterus leucas) in captivity…
