How Our Brains Perceive Body Weight Differs From Objects

Summary: Research reveals that how we perceive the size and weight of body parts, such as hands, differs from our perception of objects. For objects, smaller items feel heavier than…

Decoding Favoritism: How Parents Shape Sibling Bonds

Summary: New research sheds light on how parents subtly favor children based on birth order, personality, and gender, shaping family dynamics. Younger siblings often receive more favorable treatment, while older…

trait combinations and their effects on tree physiology – Functional Ecologists

In this new blog post, Marion Boisseaux, a postdoc at California State University, presents her work ‘Shifting trait coordination along a soil-moisture-nutrient gradient in tropical forests’. She discusses the knowledge…

Hand-feeding squirrels accidentally changed their skulls

Soft diet, weak jaws. If red squirrels eat too many peanuts, their jaws end up weaker than the jaws of squirrels eating natural diets, researchers report January 15 in Royal…

Early humans are one of the few animals of that era that did not migrate when the climate cooled

Humans seem to have … adapted to the last ice age in similar ways to wolves and bears, according to our recent study, challenging longstanding theories about how and where…

Brain Connectivity Patterns Link Vascular Disease to Cognitive Decline

Summary: Researchers have identified how cerebrovascular disease (CeVD) disrupts brain connectivity, contributing to cognitive decline and neurodegeneration alongside Alzheimer’s disease (AD). By studying brain networks and blood biomarkers in older…

Red Light Therapy May Reduce Deadly Blood Clots

Summary: Exposure to long-wavelength red light significantly reduced blood clot formation in both mice and human studies. Red light was associated with lower inflammation, reduced immune system activation, and fewer…

Viewpoint: What is ‘Spatuala-Gate’? Or how reckless, chemophobic media and environmentalists bungled the science of plastics yet again

For months, the media indulged in a frenzy of fearmongering, plastering headlines about toxic flame retardants supposedly hiding in your kitchen spatulas and children’s toys. CNN, The Atlantic, the LA…

Delayed Brain Maturation Links Genetics and Eating Disorders

Summary: Over half of 23-year-olds display restrictive, emotional, or uncontrolled eating behaviors, with delayed brain maturation playing a significant role. The research linked structural brain differences, mental health challenges, and…

Men Are Three Times As Likely to Die From Brain Injuries

Summary: A 2021 analysis of U.S. mortality data highlights disparities in traumatic brain injury (TBI)-related deaths, which disproportionately affect older adults, men, and certain racial and ethnic groups. Suicides remain…