Scorn will make your stomach churn and your brain hurt
We played 45 minutes of Scorn, a grotesque horror game that's not for those with weak stomachs......»»
Crime blotter: Apple Store theft suspect hurt in mall fall
In the latest Apple Crime Blotter, updates from the Massachusetts Apple Store trial, another device stolen from a member of Parliament, and iPhone thefts in multiple states.The Apple Store in Willow Grove, PAThe latest in an occasional AppleInsider s.....»»
A new model for the evolution of honey bee brains
Researchers have proposed a new model for the evolution of higher brain functions and behaviors in the Hymenoptera order of insects. The team compared the Kenyon cells, a type of neuronal cell, in the mushroom bodies (a part of the insect brain invol.....»»
Giraffes, despite a relatively small brain, can handle statistics
This sort of behavior has previously only been seen in primates and parrots. Enlarge (credit: Arthur Morris) Reasoning about probabilities is something humans can't always manage especially well, but it's clearly a skill.....»»
Q&A: Using Prussian blue nanoparticles to diagnose and treat brain cancer
Meghan Hill is a graduate student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Michigan State University. Hill has won first place in MSU's Council of Graduate Student's 3-Minute Thesis Competition and represented MSU at the regional Midwestern Ass.....»»
Adient"s Q2 revenue grows, but headwinds hurt profits
The automotive seating supplier saw revenue rise 11 percent year over year to $3.9 billion, though it finished the quarter $15 million in the red......»»
Caught in the act: Astronomers spot star swallowing a planet for first time
A sneak peek at Earth's eventual fate. An aging star dubbed ZTF SLRN-2020 has been caught in the act of swallowing a planet. Credit: K. Miller/R. Hurt (Caltech/PAC) An aging star dubbed ZTF SLRN-202.....»»
The Modern World Is Aging Your Brain
In a remote part of the Amazon, anthropologists and neuroscientists are learning about life and health without an “embarrassment of riches.”.....»»
Machine learning model sheds light on how brains recognize communication sounds
In a paper published today in Communications Biology, auditory neuroscientists at the University of Pittsburgh describe a machine learning model that helps explain how the brain recognizes the meaning of communication sounds, such as animal calls or.....»»
AI plus MRI yields the ability to recognize what the mind is hearing
System can also reconstruct speech a person imagines. Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) We have various ways of seeing what the brain is up to, from low-resolution electrodes that track waves of activity that ripple across.....»»
Newly discovered electrical activity within cells could change the way researchers think about biological chemistry
The human body relies heavily on electrical charges. Lightning-like pulses of energy fly through the brain and nerves and most biological processes depend on electrical ions traveling across the membranes of each cell in our body......»»
Study suggests catalyst for human brain evolution
More than a million years ago, large chunks of the human genome were rearranged—a chance event during egg or sperm formation that led to the deletion, duplication, or reversal of sections of DNA. Those structural variants, researchers have now disc.....»»
Snowballing effects of beech leaf disease hurt helpful root fungi
The American beech, Fagus grandifolia, is a North American staple and the dominant species in many northeastern forests. In 2012, a new disease was first spotted, infecting trees in northeastern Ohio. The worst afflicted had dark banding on their lea.....»»
Brain cells are starved of energy in autophagy dysfunction, new study finds
Neurodegeneration in brain cells may be happening when the natural cellular cleaning process malfunctions due to falling levels of a niacin-related coenzyme and leaves cells starved of energy, new research shows......»»
Brain circuits for locomotion evolved long before appendages and skeletons, finds new study
Hundreds of millions of years before the evolution of animals with segmented bodies, jointed skeletons or appendages, soft-bodied invertebrates like sea slugs ruled the seas. A new study finds parallels between the brain architecture that drives loco.....»»
Predicting changes in microbial food webs
Increasing either temperature or nutrients can hurt ecosystems by destabilizing food webs, which are all of the interconnected food chains that make communities behave the way they do. When temperature and nutrients increase together, however, ecosys.....»»
Researcher: Social media scatters your brain, and then you buy stuff you don"t need
Social media can be mentally draining. And when mentally drained, you are more likely to be influenced by a high number of likes on posts—even to the point of clicking on ads for products you don't need or want—according to our recent experiments.....»»
Landslides Kill and Hurt Thousands, but Science Largely Ignores These Disasters
Compared with landslides, volcanoes and hurricanes get a lot more attention, as well as research funding.....»»
How Our Team Overturned the 90-Year-Old Metaphor of a "Little Man" in the Brain Who Controls Movement
A pillar of every neuroscience textbook, the classic “homunculus” has just gone through a radical revision.....»»
The high-tech Roborock S8 Pro Ultra is an elegant way to clean your floors, $300 off
Want to have clean floors effortlessly? Meet the Roborock S8 Pro Ultra – it’s a vacuum with a brain. more… The post The high-tech Roborock S8 Pro Ultra is an elegant way to clean your floors, $300 off appeared first on 9to5Mac......»»
Study shows how tiny plastic particles manage to breach the blood-brain barrier
Among the biggest environmental problems of our time, micro- and nanoplastic particles (MNPs) can enter the body in various ways, including through food. And now for the first time, research conducted at MedUni Vienna has shown how these minute parti.....»»