Thunderstorms may bring more than rain and gloom. The same forces that cause thunder and lightning also make treetops sparkle in ultraviolet light, like a Christmas tree topper invisible to…
Category: Life
‘You only need to put a few knicks in the brain’: FDA is bizarrely demanding fake brain surgery to assess Huntington’s disease therapy
Katie Jackson desperately wants a new treatment for Huntington’s disease. Her husband died from the devastating brain disorder. And because the disease runs in families, her three children have a…
How Invasive Moths Use Magnetic and Visual Cues to Migrate
Summary: Billions of moths navigate the night sky every year, moving across entire continents with uncanny precision. A new study has uncovered how one of the world’s most invasive pests—the…
Older Adults Still Prioritize Passion
Summary: The cultural stereotype of older age as a time of asexual “friendship” is being dismantled by new research. A study of single adults aged 60 to 83 found that…
Exhaustion Loophole: How Sleep Deprivation Compromises Justice
Summary: The U.S. criminal justice system has long accounted for intellectual disabilities and intoxication when weighing the validity of statements, but a new research synthesis suggests it is ignoring a…
Healing Without the Hallucinations: The Next Generation of Psilocybin Therapy
Summary: While psilocybin is hailed as a breakthrough for depression and anxiety, many patients remain wary of the intense “trips” associated with the drug. Now, researchers have engineered modified versions…
Understanding the evolution of individuality—Fruit flies may have an answer
As a Ph.D. student, I wanted to understand the evolution of individual differences in fruit fly behavior – the building blocks of personality. My experiments involved measuring how my tiny…
