Experimental Gene Therapy Enables Hearing in Five Children Born Deaf (hms.harvard.edu)
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)
Images altered to trick machine vision can influence humans too (deepmind.google)
Most people say self-control is the same as willpower. Researchers disagree (www.sciencenews.org)
Scientists discovered perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo inside fossilized egg (www.unilad.com)
These moss balls move in unison, and researchers are okay with not knowing why. (www.atlasobscura.com)
First Map of Human Limb Development Reveals Unexpected Growth Processes and Explains Syndromes Found at Birth (www.sanger.ac.uk)
Scientists reveal unprecedented insights into human limb development, including the many intricate processes that govern their formation....
A new study reveals that excessive optimism can lead to poor decision-making, particularly in financial matters (journals.sagepub.com)
Researchers Crack the Cellular Code on Protein Folding, Opening New Therapeutic Avenues for Many Diseases (www.umass.edu)
The research, published in the journal Molecular Cell, explores members of a family of proteins called serpins, which are implicated in a number of diseases. The research is the first to investigate how the location and composition of carbohydrates attached to the serpins ensure that they fold correctly. Serious...
Berkeley Scientists Discover Retinal Cells that Help Stabilize Our World View (optometry.berkeley.edu)
Astronomers discover nearby six-planet solar system with ‘pristine configuration’ (www.cnn.com)
The most powerful cosmic ray since the Oh-My-God particle puzzles scientists (www.nature.com)
Scientists have detected the most powerful cosmic ray seen in more than three decades. But the exact origin of this turbocharged particle from outer space remains a mystery, with some suggesting that it could have been generated by unknown physics....
Strong solar storm could trigger colorful aurora Thursday night (www.washingtonpost.com)
When light flashes for a quintillionth of a second, things get weird (www.popsci.com)
[Some] Secrets of Cat Evolution Have Finally Been Revealed (www.sciencealert.com)
Rats have an imagination, brain research reveals (www.washingtonpost.com)
Haemoglobin discovered in cartilage (www.thehindu.com)
Haemoglobin is a key component of red blood cells, and transports oxygen across the body. However, a team led by Dr Feng Zhang and Dr Quiang Sun has discovered haemoglobin bodies (‘hedies’) in cartilage chondrocytes. They also saw that hedies are essential for chondrocyte survival, and that they store and release oxygen as...
Unavoidable future increase in West Antarctic ice-shelf melting over the twenty-first century (www.nature.com)
Milkshake neuroscience: how the brain nudges us toward fatty foods (www.nature.com)
Rich, high-fat foods such as ice cream are loved not only for their taste, but also for the physical sensations they produce in the mouth — their ‘mouthfeel’. Now scientists have identified a brain area that both responds to the smooth texture of fatty foods and uses that information to rate the morsel’s allure, guiding...
In the mycelium revolution fungi roots are shaping the future of sustainable industries (tech.eu)
Startups are harnessing the fast-growing “roots" of mushrooms for sustainable alternatives to leather, packaging, building materials, and meat. Mycelium’s versatility makes it a prime candidate to displace many harmful mainstream materials — especially for a more conscious future. However, scaling production and costs...
Hot Weather Hits Productivity - Even in Air-Conditioned Factories (news.exeter.ac.uk)
Codagenix announces promising findings for intranasal COVID vaccine (www.cidrap.umn.edu)
It looks like the 23k year old human footprints at White Sands are solid (archeothoughts.wordpress.com)
Scientists Use CRISPR to Make Chickens More Resistant to Bird Flu (www.nytimes.com)
Scientists Use CRISPR to Make Chickens More Resistant to Bird Flu. Avian flu has killed countless farmed and wild birds. Scientists worry that it could acquire mutations that help it spread more easily among humans, potentially setting off a pandemic. This new study highlights both the promise and the limitations of gene editing
