Neuroscie
AI Tool Flags Predatory Journals, Building a Firewall for Science
Summary: A new AI system developed by computer scientists automatically screens open-access journals to identify potentially predatory publications. These journals often charge high fees to publish without proper peer review,…
Music Sparks Social Imagination and Eases Loneliness
Summary: A large-scale study with 600 participants shows that music can genuinely evoke feelings of companionship by sparking social imagination. When participants listened to folk music, they imagined vivid social…
Inside the Minds That Never Forget: Exploring Hyperthymesia
Summary: Autobiographical memory allows us to relive experiences, form identity, and project into the future. A rare few, known as hyperthymesics, can recall events from their lives with remarkable precision,…
Brain Cells Behind Depression Identified
Summary: Researchers analyzing post-mortem brain tissue found two cell types altered in people with depression: excitatory neurons that regulate mood and stress, and microglia that manage inflammation. The findings highlight…
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
Astronomers discover one of the most massive binary stars in the galaxy
NGC 3603 is a starburst region located 22,000 light years away from the Sun, it’s the closest region of this kind known in our Galaxy Credit: ESO A research team…
Webb captures dusty wisps round a planet-forming disk
Webb’s view of planet-forming disc IRAS 04302+2247. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, M. Villenave et al. For this new Picture of the Month feature, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope…
NASA aeroshell material takes extended space trip
Robert Mosher, HIAD materials and processing lead at NASA Langley, holds up a piece of webbing material, known as Zylon, which comprise the straps of the HIAD. Credit: NASA/Joe Atkinson…
