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How does your body respond to feelings of moral outrage? Depends on your politics
Neuroscience News - 19 Jan 2020 00:42
Study reveals liberals and conservatives feel certain violations of moral concerns, such as loyalty and purity, in different areas of their bodies.
Mix of stress and air pollution may lead to cognitive difficulties in children
Neuroscience News - 18 Jan 2020 22:54
Children who experience elevated prenatal exposure to air pollution and exposure to early life stress have an increased risk of developing both attention problems and cognitive difficulties.
What people who don't like music might tell us about social interaction
Neuroscience News - 19 Jan 2020 01:16
Musical anhedonia, a neurological condition where people don't enjoy music, affects 5% of the population. Researchers are exploring if this same condition could also be what impairs social bonding for some people on the ...
Music helps researchers find link between prediction and pleasure
Neuroscience News - 19 Jan 2020 00:28
Exposing subjects to music composed in an unfamiliar scale, researchers test whether reward can be derived solely from newly formed predictions.
New ORNL software improves neutron spectroscopy data resolution
Phys.org - 19 Jan 2020 00:18
Neutron spectroscopy is an important tool for studying magnetic and thermoelectric properties in materials. But often the resolution, or the ability of the instrument to see fine details, is too coarse to clearly observe...
Neuron found in mice could have implications for effective diet drugs
Neuroscience News - 18 Jan 2020 23:20
CALCR, a type of neuron found in the medulla of mice, may hold the key to the development of drugs that can effectively curb overeating and fight obesity in humans.
This Week's Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through January 18)
Singularity Hub - 18 Jan 2020 19:00
BIOTECH Meet Xenobot, an Eerie New Kind of Programmable Organism Matt Simon | Wired “A xenobot is a one-of-a-kind organism: It's both a living thing made of living cells and a machine that the researchers can program t...
Can You 'Catch' Cancer or Obesity from Other People?
Live Science - 18 Jan 2020 16:00
Noncommunicable diseases cannot pass between people -- or can they?
Scientists made a bow tie-shaped molecule and it changes colour
New Scientist - 18 Jan 2020 14:00
A molecule shaped like a bow tie changes colour in the presence of toxic chemicals, which could make it useful for monitoring air