Neuroscie
ADHD May Make You More Creative
Summary: People with ADHD tend to be more creative, and this advantage may stem from a greater tendency for their minds to wander. The study is the first to directly…
Can Animals Feel? A New Roadmap for Consciousness
Summary: A philosophy scholar has developed a practical “decision tree” to help scientists and ethicists evaluate which creatures may be conscious. The new framework clarifies decades of debate about whether…
Inflammatory Brain Cells Driving Progressive MS Discovered
Summary: Researchers have identified a rare type of brain cell that may drive the chronic inflammation and neurodegeneration seen in progressive multiple sclerosis (MS). These cells, called disease-associated radial glia-like…
Brain Cells That Thrive on Uncertainty Help Us Adapt and Learn
Summary: Scientists have discovered a group of brain cells in the orbitofrontal cortex that become more active when outcomes are uncertain, revealing how the brain adapts and learns from unpredictable…
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
ESA’s Mars Express and ExoMars orbiters catch a glimpse of 3I/ATLAS
ExoMars TGO images comet 3I/ATLAS. Credit: ESA/TGO/CaSSIS The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has been something of a mystery ever since it graced our solar system. From all outward appearances, the object…
Unified model explains extreme jet streams on all giant planets
The gas giants Jupiter and Saturn exhibit eastward-flowing equatorial jet streams, while the ice giants Uranus and Neptune have westward-flowing ones. This work demonstrates that, under similar conditions, a jet…
Event Horizon Telescope images reveal new dark matter detection method
Simulated images of the supermassive black hole M87*. Left panel shows radiation from astrophysical plasma and right panel illustrates potential emission from dark matter annihilation. Credit: Yifan Chen. According to…
Young sunlike star reveals rapid two-year magnetic cycle
Credit: AIP/J. Alvarado-Gómez – STScI/NASA Scientists at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) have uncovered the intricate magnetic heartbeat of a distant star remarkably similar to our own sun—but…
