Neuroscie
Low Income, Vision Loss, and Isolation Drive Dementia Risk
Summary: A new study reveals that people with lower incomes and those from historically underrepresented racial and ethnic groups carry a higher burden of modifiable dementia risk factors. Vision loss…
Rivalry Rewires the Brain: Why Fans Lose Control in an Instant
Summary: New brain-imaging research shows that soccer fans experience rapid shifts in reward and self-control circuits when their team wins or loses against a rival. Victories trigger heightened reward responses,…
Low Choline Could Be a Hidden Driver of Anxiety
Summary: A large meta-analysis of 25 studies found that people with anxiety disorders have significantly lower levels of choline, a vital brain nutrient, compared to individuals without anxiety. This reduction…
Brain Decoder Translates Visual Thoughts Into Text
Summary: A new brain decoding method called mind captioning can generate accurate text descriptions of what a person is seeing or recalling—without relying on the brain’s language system. Instead, it…
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
How to spot life in the clouds on other worlds
Artist concept of a cloudy Earth-like exoplanet with colorful biota in the clouds. Credit: Adam B. Langeveld/Carl Sagan Institute. Adapted from NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech. Cloud cover is bad for picnics and for…
Why the universe might be fluffier than we thought
Scanning electron microscope image of a interplanetary dust particle. Credit: NASA Space dust provides more than just awe-inspiring pictures like the Pillars of Creation. It can provide the necessary materials…
Bezos’s Blue Origin set to launch NASA mission to Mars
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain New Glenn, the towering rocket built by Jeff Bezos’s space company Blue Origin, is set to take off on its second mission Sunday as competition intensifies…
