Category: Science

Global analysis of 58,319 outbreaks found healthcare access strongly shapes where emerging diseases are reported

A global analysis of 58,319 outbreak events across 32 emerging infectious diseases found reporting declined...

Living human brain biopsies showed rapid tau turnover while amyloid plaques remained stable

Living human brain biopsies from 18 shunt-surgery patients revealed early Alzheimer pathology, rapid tau turnover...

Silencing the hippocampus disrupted world-centred navigation but not self-centred navigation in rats

A Nature Communications study found that hippocampal spatial representations changed with navigation strategy in male...

Nearly half of cross-sectional social science papers used causal language their designs could not establish

An analysis of 194,631 cross-sectional social-science papers found causal language in 46.3% of titles or...

RNA and amino acids helped each other form longer molecules in an origin-of-life experiment

Researchers found that RNA-related molecules and amino acids can promote each other’s assembly under prebiotic...

Your brain stages a tug-of-war before you take a risk

Researchers recorded electrical activity directly from the human brain during risky decisions and found two...

Two massive baby stars may have become a binary after a chance encounter just 60 years ago

Astronomers tracked two massive stars that are still being born and found evidence that they...

The Universe is forming fewer stars, but galaxies have not run out of hydrogen

Star formation across the Universe has fallen sharply over the past 4.5 billion years, yet...

Einstein’s Gravity Holds Up in a New Quantum Test

Physicists have directly measured a long-predicted quantum effect of free fall, finding that an important...

Scientists have detected a sugar in interstellar space for the first time

Astronomers have detected a four-carbon sugar in interstellar space for the first time, showing that...

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