Summary: A new national survey reveals that 45% of U.S. adults experience stress at least once a week due to news or social media, with 16% feeling stressed daily. While…
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What’s the recipe for healthier food? Healthier soil?
Soil is typically made up mostly of inorganic matter—around 45% minerals, 25% air, and 25% water. The remaining 3% to 7%, depending on the type of soil, is made up…
What Are Thoughts? Exploring the Mystery of the Mind
Summary: The nature of thought remains one of philosophy’s greatest mysteries, with deep implications for neuroscience and artificial intelligence. Two main theories compete: materialism, which sees thoughts as brain states,…
Delusions Often Appear Before Hallucinations in Early Psychosis
Summary: A new study has found that delusions typically emerge before hallucinations in individuals at high risk for psychosis, overturning a long-standing belief that hallucinations drive delusional thinking. By analyzing…
When AI Becomes a Lover: The Ethics of Human-AI Relationships
Summary: As AI technologies grow more human-like, some people are forming deep, long-term emotional bonds with them, even engaging in non-legally binding marriages. A recent opinion paper explores the ethical…
Bats wearing tiny mics reveal how the fliers avoid rush hour collisions
The first bat-wearable microphone is helping biologists study the bats’ good safety record at avoiding collisions in rush hour air. On summer evenings, in around a minute, some 2,000 greater…
Snakes are often the villains. A new book gives them a fair shake
SlitherStephen S. HallGrand Central Publishing, $30 Snakes don’t often get to be the protagonists. From the biblical tempter in the Garden of Eden to the eponymous snakes on a plane,…
Viewpoint: RFK, Jr. declares he will personally determine the cause of autism by September—which means he will generate rigged and fraudulent research
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promised that “by September, we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we will be able to eliminate those exposures.” This alarming…
Shared Brain Circuit Drives Political Passion Across Ideologies
Summary: A new study has identified a brain circuit that correlates with how intensely people engage in politics, regardless of their political beliefs. Researchers examined data from 124 male military…
