Nighttime Light Exposure Linked to Sleep Loss in Schizophrenia

Summary: A new study reveals that nighttime light exposure is strongly associated with objective sleep disruption in outpatients with schizophrenia, resulting in nearly an hour less total sleep per night.…

Eye-Blink Rate Predicts Cognitive Flexibility in Preschoolers

Summary: Researchers have discovered that spontaneous eye-blink rate serves as a simple, noninvasive marker for tracking the development of executive function in early childhood. The study revealed that children aged…

Disruption of Striatal D2 Receptor Neurons Drives ADHD and Impulsivity

Summary: Researchers have demonstrated that deleting the membrane-fusion protein NSF specifically from dopamine D2 receptor (D2R)-expressing neurons leads to striatal shrinkage, severe dopamine depletion, and classic ADHD-like hyperactivity and impulsivity…

Viewpoint: Dubious environmental fears: Why the AI buildout is critical to America’s ecological future

Opposition to artificial intelligence has intensified over the past year. A majority of Americans worry that AI will kill jobs, distrust the information it generates, and doubt that tech leaders…

A meaty problem: How to make cell-grown protein taste like steak, chicken, and seafood

Lab-grown, or cultivated, meat options are already a reality in select restaurants worldwide. For example, the omakase restaurant Robin in San Francisco sells cultivated salmon as part of a tasting…

Por trás do artigo | Lussarina Oliveira Lima – Functional Ecologists

Sobre o artigo O nosso trabalho sobre é mortalidade de plantas durante a seca, focando nos mecanismos fisiológicos subjacentes e nos limiares que levam a mortalidade. Como estes limiares variam…

Central Genetic Switch Controls Long-Distance Axon Navigation

Summary: Challenging the dogma that growing axons navigate exclusively via local cues processed at their tips, neuroscientists have discovered that a centralized genetic switch inside the neuron’s cell body directs…

Brain Activity Predicts Risky Choices Half a Second Before They Are Made

Summary: By recording directly from electrodes implanted in the human orbitofrontal cortex, neuroscientists discovered two neighboring circuits locked in a millisecond-by-millisecond “tug-of-war” between taking a risk and playing it safe.…

Meet Swiftiephylus, an Australian bug named after Taylor Swift

If you’re down under and you give the right tree a rustle, you might encounter a record-breaking, globally recognized music icon. Or at least a bug named after her. Meet…

These deep-sea spiders give off an otherworldly glow

In the deep, dark Australian Abyss, what’s visible can be scarier than the unseen. There, giant sea spiders with glowing 25-centimeter-long legs may scuttle like disembodied apparitions. Photos of these…