Summary: Why do we feel compelled to help a stranger in distress? According to a new study, the answer lies in our ancient âparenting machinery.â Researchers discovered that the same…
Category: Life
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 âtripsâ associated with the drug. Now, researchers have engineered modified versions…
Understanding the evolution of individualityâFruit flies may have an answer
As a Ph.D. student, I wanted to understand the evolution of individual differences in fruit fly behavior â the building blocks of personality. My experiments involved measuring how my tiny…
Teen Aggression Speeds Up Aging
Summary: Adolescence is often a time of social friction, but a new longitudinal study reveals that these early behavioral patterns have deep physical consequences. Following 121 individuals from age 13…
A koala populationâs rapid rebound may let it escape inbreeding’s perils
A rapid koala rebound in southeastern Australia is also boosting their genetic variation, showing one way out of an extinction death spiral. After nearly disappearing from the region over a…
Cocaine Addiction is a Biological Rewiring, Not a Choice
Summary: Relapse isnât a failure of willpowerâitâs a biological ârewiringâ of the brain. A new study reveals how chronic cocaine use hijacks the connection between the brainâs reward center and…
Psychedelics Remodel Myelin to Heal PTSD
Summary: For years, scientists have focused on how psychedelics ârewireâ neurons. But a groundbreaking study has found a âmissing linkâ in long-term PTSD recovery: myelin remodeling. Researchers discovered that psilocybin…
Rosemary Glos | Trapped, Poked, and Poisoned: Evidence for Defence Synergisms in a Desert Plant â Functional Ecologists
In this âBehind the Paperâ blog post, Rosemary Glos (she/her, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mi, USA) discusses her research article âSeparate and Synergistic Anti-Herbivore Effects of Non-Glandular Trichomes and…
How to spot fake science news
How to choose your news video describes tips to choose news and separate face from opinion. Our Evaluate news information can help you critically evaluate the credibility of news sources. Fighting fake news…
