Neuroscie
Omega-3 DHA Eases Autism Behaviors by Calming Inflammation
Summary: A preclinical study from Chongqing Medical University and Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center demonstrates that docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), a crucial omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid, alleviates autism-like behavioral deficits…
Neuromorphic Chip Decodes Brain’s Emotion Waves
Summary: Engineers at the Beijing Institute of Technology have engineered an ultra-efficient, brain-inspired computing framework that decodes emotional states from raw electroencephalography (EEG) signals with microsecond latency and microjoule energy…
Single-Dose Psilocybin Lacks Lasting Behavioral Effects
Summary: A coordinated multi-laboratory investigation published in Nature Neuroscience challenges widespread assumptions regarding the enduring behavioral benefits of psychedelic compounds in animal models. Neuroscientists across five independent laboratories at UC…
How Your Brain Saves Nostalgia From Scandals
Summary: When an admired artist is embroiled in scandal, how does the mind preserve its past love for their work? A study from the University of South Florida, published in…
Life
Nature
Newfound bat skeletons are the oldest on record
Two fossilized bat skeletons unearthed in western Wyoming represent a new species and are the oldest set of bat bones yet discovered, researchers say. The incredibly complete fossils of Icaronycteris…
Astronomy
Asteroid 2024 YR4 was Earth’s first real-life defense test
Artist’s depiction of an asteroid floating in space. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb), Martin Kornmesser (ESA), Serge Brunier (ESO), Nick Risinger (Photopic Sky Survey) At this point in…
How do you fire someone into the sun?
Firing our villain straight at the Sun results in a big miss. Credit: Michael Brown, CC BY To point a rocket directly at the sun and hit would require great…
Cosmic ray puzzle resolved as scientists link ‘knee’ formation to black holes
LHAASO experiment. Credit: LHAASO Collaboration Milestone results released by the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) on November 16 have solved a decades-old mystery about the cosmic ray energy…
If the supernova standard candle is wrong, it could solve the Hubble tension
An illustration showing how Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAOs) expand with the universe. Credit: Gabriela Secara, Perimeter Institute CC-BY-4.0 Last time I wrote about new data that overturns the standard cosmological…
