Neuroscie
Kindness Sparks Cooperation by Boosting Social Connectedness
Summary: New research reveals that everyday niceness, like warm tones, smiles, and active listening, can significantly improve teamwork and increase willingness to cooperate. These small acts foster a sense of social…
Why Some Individuals Adapt to Fear Faster Than Others
Summary: A new study has uncovered the brain circuits responsible for individual differences in how animals adapt to repeated visual threats. Using advanced neural recording and manipulation tools, researchers identified…
Study Ties Racial Inequality to Psychosis in Young Adults
Summary: A new study finds that racial inequality and police violence may significantly contribute to higher rates of psychotic episodes in low-income young adults of color. While individual factors like…
Emotions Echo: Brainwide Timing Patterns Reveal Roots of Feeling
Summary: Emotions help guide our behavior, but when they persist too long or arrive at the wrong time, they can cause serious mental health issues. In a landmark study, researchers…
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
Elon Musk promises more risky launches after sixth Starship failure
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain What goes up must come down, and earlier this week yet another of SpaceX’s Starships, the biggest and most powerful type of rocket ever built, came…
Satellite megaconstellations threaten radio astronomy observations, expert warns
Satellite mega constellations could place “radio quiet” in jeopardy. Credit: NOIRLab/NSF For years, the commercial space sector has been abuzz about the prospect of satellite “super constellations” in Earth orbit.…
Simulation tracks complete journey of gravitational wave through black hole spacetime
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In a new Physical Review Letters study, researchers have successfully followed a gravitational wave’s complete journey from the infinite past to the infinite future as it…
China’s Tianwen-2 is off to collect an asteroid sample
Credit: Universe Today Asteroids are the ancient remnants of our solar system’s birth, rocky fragments that never formed into planets. Most of these celestial wanderers inhabit the asteroid belt between…
