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Perseverance Rover spotted from space in striking new satellite image
Live Science - 2 Oct 2021 13:00
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spied the little Perseverance Rover chugging around Jezero Crater in a striking new image.
What Our Wandering Thoughts Can Teach Us About Mental Health
Neuroscience News - 2 Oct 2021 00:42
Ten minutes of idle thought can tell us a lot about the potential risk of depression, researchers say. Those who tend to ruminate and were more past or negatively focused in their idle thoughts had an increased risk of d...
Understanding Hearing Loss From Noise Damage Through Gene Expression Changes
Neuroscience News - 2 Oct 2021 00:20
Researchers have created an atlas representing changes in the levels of RNA made in different cell types in the ear following noise-induced hearing loss. They also discovered certain FDA-approved medications for diabetes...
How Parents Feed Kids Is Linked to Emotional Eating
Neuroscience News - 2 Oct 2021 23:07
Overall, restrictive eating was the only feeding practice that linked parent and child emotional eating.
The Neurobiology of Memes and Conspiracy Theories
Neuroscience News - 2 Oct 2021 22:30
The propensity to believe in conspiracy theories may be a result of genetic determination, cognitive capacity, and affective reactions. Researchers found the representation of memes acts as neural network attractor state...
Study Finds Vital Link to Identify People at Risk of Aneurysms
Neuroscience News - 2 Oct 2021 22:02
People with asymmetrical brain arteries have a significantly higher risk of developing a cerebral aneurysm, a new study reports.
Morality Demonstrated in Stories Can Alter Judgement for Early Adolescents
Neuroscience News - 2 Oct 2021 21:41
Reading about moral characteristics helps teens absorb those traits as building blocks for their own morality, a new study reports.
New Treatment Combination Inhibits Glioblastoma Growth
Neuroscience News - 2 Oct 2021 21:23
A combination of approved and novel therapeutics improved survival rates and reduced both tumor volume and growth for those suffering from glioblastoma brain cancer.
Directly into the brain: A 3D multifunctional and flexible neural interface
Science Daily - 2 Oct 2021 18:30
Although measuring the electrical activity of neurons is useful in many disciplines, making durable neural interfacing brain chip implants with negligible adverse effects has proven challenging. Now, scientists have deve...
This Week's Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through October 2)
Singularity Hub - 2 Oct 2021 16:00
ROBOTICS How DeepMind Is Reinventing the Robot Tom Chivers | IEEE Spectrum “Having conquered Go and protein folding, the company turns to a really hard problem. …To get to the next level, researchers are trying to fu...
Stinky 'mushball' hailstones on Uranus may explain an atmospheric anomaly there
Live Science - 2 Oct 2021 15:35
A recent discovery of giant ammonia-rich hailstones, dubbed mushballs, on Jupiter might explain why Uranus and Neptune seem to have no ammonia in their atmospheres.
Why can't house cats roar?
Live Science - 2 Oct 2021 13:00
Some big cats can roar loudly, but house cats can only meow and purr. Why is that?
Two-dimensional hybrid metal halide device allows control of terahertz emissions
Phys.org - 2 Oct 2021 07:53
Researchers have utilized two-dimensional hybrid metal halides in a device that allows directional control of terahertz radiation generated by a spintronic scheme. The device has better signal efficiency than conventiona...