Chloé Chaubaud | Les Lézards assoiffés peuvent-ils encore percevoir le danger? – Functional Ecologists

Vous êtes-vous déjà demandé si les lézards assoiffés pouvaient encore percevoir le danger ? Eh bien, dans l’article de blog de cette semaine, nous avons la réponse ! Dans son article intitulé…

RFK, Jr.’s Children Health Defense files racketeering suit against American Academy of Pediatrics claiming it endorses vaccines because it’s on-the-take from drug makers

Children’s Health Defense [CDC], the anti-vaccine advocacy group founded by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr., has filed a racketeering lawsuit against the American Academy of Pediatrics. The…

Hippocampus Predicts Rewards by Reorganizing Memories

Summary: A new preclinical study reveals that the hippocampus does more than just store memories; it actively reorganizes them to predict future rewards. By tracking brain activity over several weeks,…

Memory Rewritten: Study Finds No Clear Line Between Episodic and Semantic Retrieval

Summary: A new study into how different parts of memory work in the brain has shown that the same brain areas are involved in retrieving different types of information. The…

Spider silk-making organs evolved due to a 400-million-year-old genetic oops

Spiders’ ability to spin webs may be one consequence of a really big genetic mistake. A close look at the genetics and development of spinnerets — spiders’ silk-making organs —…

‘We are approaching a watershed moment for psychedelic health care with ‘magic mushroom’ psilocybin the star’

In the billion-dollar race to commercialize psychedelic medicine, psilocybin, a naturally occurring hallucinogen better known as magic mushrooms, or “shrooms,” has decisively pulled ahead of the pack. The Food and…

Some vaccines are making progress in protecting vulnerable species

Southern elephant seal pups were among the first to die when a deadly strain of avian influenza arrived in the Crozet Islands in 2024. But as the virus spread across…

Brain Stimulation Method Can Evaluate Consciousness in Alzheimer’s Disease

Summary: A new study reports that a brain complexity measure, calculated by recording EEG signals after a magnetic stimulation pulse, is significantly reduced in people with Alzheimer’s disease. This method,…

How Greenland sharks defy aging

When it comes to bucking the biological ails of aging, humans could learn something from Greenland sharks.

Mandatory teaching of creationism: Oklahoma senator files state bill mandating teaching of ‘evolution science’

Sen. David Bullard, R-Durant, is pushing back against an evolution-only curriculum in Oklahoma schools with newly filed Senate Bill 1868. As reported by the Oklahoma Senate’s official site, the bill aims to…