Police raid Guinea-Bissau offices of RFK Jr.-backed vaccine researchers, seize hepatitis B doses

Judicial police in Guinea-Bissau searched the offices of the Bandim Health Project on Monday and seized doses of hepatitis B vaccine, as The Guardian’s Melody Schreiber reports, though police stressed…

Why AI Cannot Replace the Transformative Power of Human Creativity

Summary: As generative artificial intelligence masters the rapid synthesis of complex paintings, music, and literature, a new theoretical framework published in AI & Society re-evaluates the true essence of human…

Focused Ultrasound Calms Delusions in Schizophrenia

Summary: A pilot clinical trial led by NYU Langone Health psychiatrists and biomedical engineers reveals that non-invasive transcranial ultrasound stimulation directed at the globus pallidus interna safely reduces delusions in…

Restless Legs in Pregnancy Triples Depression Risk

Summary: A prospective study of more than 2,400 pregnant women reveals that developing restless legs syndrome (RLS) during pregnancy is tied to a threefold increase in the risk of perinatal…

Four Paths the Brain Takes After Trauma

Summary: A longitudinal study tracking 1,035 adults for six months following the October 7 attacks in Israel identifies four distinct psychological trajectories after mass trauma: resilience (54%), natural recovery (27%),…

Risk-Taking Spikes Before Alcohol Bingeing

Summary: A longitudinal study utilizing gamified smartphone tasks has demonstrated that shifts in risky decision-making precede increases in alcohol consumption in people with mild to moderate alcohol use disorder (AUD),…

These tiny snakes cartwheel to escape danger

Cartwheeling seems like it should require both arms and legs. But some itty-bitty snakes in Southeast Asia manage it without either. Scientists first shared snapshots of a dwarf reed snake…

Viewpoint: Latest attack on renewable energy and farmers, new USDA rules could put solar grants out of reach for small producers

Farmers hoping to tap the US Department of Agriculture’s Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) must now build their solar arrays or efficiency upgrades first, then document a full year…

Resetting Interneuron Timing Rescues Memory in Alzheimer’s

Summary: Researchers at Gladstone Institutes have decoded how parvalbumin (PV) interneurons generate gamma oscillations—the fast brain waves essential for attention and memory—by firing in precise, successive waves rather than all…

Boosting Wnt Signaling Reverses APOE4 Alzheimer’s Damage

Summary: MIT neuroscientists discovered that the APOE4 gene variant suppresses critical Wnt signaling in oligodendrocytes, trapping essential fatty acids inside toxic lipid droplets rather than deploying them as protective myelin…