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Microplastics Make Their Way from the Gut to Other Organs, UNM Researchers Find (hsc.unm.edu)

It’s happening every day. From our water, our food and even the air we breathe, tiny plastic particles are finding their way into many parts of our body.

On World Parkinson’s Day, a New Theory Emerges on the Disease’s Origins and Spread (www.urmc.rochester.edu)

According to the results of a new study, some people see the world around us at a higher temporal resolution when compared to others. (journals.plos.org)

New Imaging Method Illuminates Oxygen's Journey in the Brain (www.urmc.rochester.edu)

Fake academic papers are on the rise: why they’re a danger and how to stop them (theconversation.com)

Ancient Retroviruses Played a Key Role in the Evolution of Vertebrate Brains (www.cell.com)

Scientists have observed the fastest glacier fracture ever recorded — a crack in Antarctica's ice that opened at roughly 129 km/h. (www.livescience.com)

Microplastics found in every human placenta tested in study (www.theguardian.com)

Scientists scanning the seafloor discover a long-lost Stone Age 'megastructure' (www.npr.org)

Researchers Discover that a Rare Fat Molecule Helps Drive Cell Death (news.columbia.edu)

Research at the heart of a federal case against the abortion pill has been retracted (www.npr.org)

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In a Warming World, Climate Scientists Consider Category 6 Hurricanes (newscenter.lbl.gov)

Our oldest microbial ancestors were way ahead of their time (arstechnica.com)

[Fun] The story of Zoozve: A children's poster of the solar system leads to interesting solar-system dynamics (nitter.net)

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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...