Neuroscie
Blurry Beginnings Shape Brain’s Visual Pathways
Summary: New research reveals how early-life blurry, low-color vision may help shape the brain’s visual pathways into specialized systems. Using computational models trained on low-quality images followed by high-quality ones,…
Gene Therapy Restores Hearing in Those with Deafness
Summary: A new study shows that gene therapy can significantly improve hearing in both children and adults with congenital deafness caused by mutations in the OTOF gene. The therapy uses…
TikTok ADHD Misinformation Can Mislead Young Minds
Summary: College students increasingly turn to TikTok for information, including on mental health. A new study found that exposure to misinformation about ADHD on the platform reduced students’ factual knowledge…
Universally Cool: Personality Traits That Cross Cultural Lines
Summary: What makes someone “cool” appears to be remarkably consistent across cultures, according to a global psychology study. Researchers surveyed nearly 6,000 people from 13 countries and found that cool…
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
Why is there no life on Mars? Rover finds a clue
Despite brief oases, Mars was likely doomed to be a desert planet, a new study suggests. Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our…
This photo of the nearby Sculptor galaxy spans 65,000 light years
This handout provided by the European Southern Observatory shows a detailed, thousand-colour image of the Sculptor Galaxy captured with the MUSE instrument at ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). Credit: ESO…
Quasi-periodic oscillations detected in X-ray binary SXP31.0
Smoothed dynamic power spectrum (top) and light curve (bottom) of NuObs1 in the 3–79 keV energy band. The light curve is binned with a 100 s time resolution. The dynamic power spectrum…
Peering into a starburst galaxy with JWST
This is the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month. The powerful infrared space telescope captured this image of the Cigar Galaxy (M82) with its Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI).…
