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Tree that lives underground among newly named plant species (www.theguardian.com)

Will a Full-Body MRI Scan Help You or Hurt You? (www.newyorker.com)

Decoding Decision-Making: Insect Brains Are More Complex Than We Thought (neurosciencenews.com)

Why Does Electroshock Therapy Work? Scientists May Have Solved a Century-Old Mystery (scitechdaily.com)

In these two new studies a new hypothesis for explaining the effectiveness of ECT as a treatment for depression symptoms proposes that ECT alleviates symptoms by increasing aperiodic activity, a type of electrical activity in the brain that doesn’t follow a consistent pattern and is generally considered to be the brain’s...

How Information is Transferred From Perception to Memory (home.dartmouth.edu)

A New Antibiotic Traps Lipopolysaccharide in Its Intermembrane Transporter (www.nature.com)

Lethal Infection of Human ACE2-Transgenic Mice Caused by SARS-CoV-2-Related Pangolin Coronavirus GX_P2V(Short_3UTR) (www.biorxiv.org)

Team Develops Polymers That Can Kill Bacteria (today.tamu.edu)

It’s Not Just Seafood: New Study Finds Microplastics in Nearly 90% of Proteins Sampled, Including Plant-Based Meat Alternatives (oceanconservancy.org)

Images altered to trick machine vision can influence humans too (deepmind.google)

An antique dress hid coded messages that have finally been unlocked (WAPO) (web.archive.org)

TLDR The messages were shorthand meteorological readings for multiple locations at specific times. It was a unique form of code used to transmit weather data via telegram back in the 1800s that is the predecessor of the shorthand used today.

A Novel Antibiotic Class Targeting the Lipopolysaccharide Transporter (www.nature.com)

The Evolution of Photosynthesis Better Documented Thanks to the Discovery of the Oldest Thylakoids in Fossil Cyanobacteria (www.uliege.be)

Is Oxygen the Cosmic Key to Alien Technology? (www.rochester.edu)

Most people say self-control is the same as willpower. Researchers disagree (www.sciencenews.org)

Hearing Aids May Help People Live Longer (news.keckmedicine.org)

Researchers Create First Functional Semiconductor Made From Graphene (research.gatech.edu)

Mount Sinai Study Shows That Human Beliefs About Drugs Could Have Dose-Dependent Effects on the Brain (www.mountsinai.org)

Ants Recognise Infected Wounds and Treat Them with Antibiotics (www.uni-wuerzburg.de)

Scientists discovered perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo inside fossilized egg (www.unilad.com)

Two Types of CBT are Equally Effective in the Treatment of Fibromyalgia (news.ki.se)

This guy should be donated to science (futurology.today)

How Jellyfish Regenerate Functional Tentacles in Days (www.u-tokyo.ac.jp)

Reindeer in the Arctic Reduce Sleep Need During Rumination (www.cell.com)

Timing and quantity of sleep depend on a circadian (∼24-h) rhythm and a specific sleep requirement. Sleep curtailment results in a homeostatic rebound of more and deeper sleep, the latter reflected in increased electroencephalographic (EEG) slow-wave activity (SWA) during non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep. Circadian rhythms...