Machine learning quickly and accurately identified sugar chains based on electrical signals generated as they passed through tiny holes in a crystal wafer. The technology could reduce the time for sequencing glycosaminoglycan from years to minutes.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Moral Outrage Is Attractive Among Long-Term Relationship Seekers
People who display moral outrage were considered to be more trustworthy and benevolent, and therefore more likely to display other positive pro-social behaviors than their more controlled counterparts.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Watching the Brain Learn
In older mice, adult neurons in the primary visual cortex with an increased number of “silent synapses” and lacking PSD-95, showed the same structural changes only seen previously in younger animals.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: THC Stays in Breast Milk for Six Weeks
THC remains present in breast milk up to six weeks after a woman abstains from marijuana consumption.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Cognitive Fatigue Changes Functional Connectivity in Brain’s Fatigue Network
Changes in functional connectivity within the fatigue network occur in response to cognitive fatigue.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Think the Brain Is Always Efficient? Think Again
Study reveals the brain may not be as efficient as previously believed.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Type 2 Diabetes Is Associated With Increased Risk of Parkinson’s
Type 2 diabetes is not only associated with an increased risk of developing Parkinson’s disease, but it’s also associated with an accelerated progression of Parkinson’s symptoms.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: How Night Shift Work Increases Cancer Risk
Night-shifts destroy the natural 24-hour biological rhythm in the activity of certain cancer-related genes, resulting in more vulnerability to DNA damage and causing a mistiming in the DNA repair mechanisms in shift workers.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Why Odors Trigger Powerful Memories
Researchers discovered unique connectivity between the hippocampus and olfactory areas in the brain, a finding which explains why specific odors can trigger powerful memories. The study also reports a loss of sense of smell is associated with depressio…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Brain Activity Foreshadows Changes in Stock Prices
Increased activity in the nucleus accumbens forecasted an increase in stock price within the next day, whereas increased activity in the anterior insular was predictive of whether a stock price would flip or change direction.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Stop Telling Girls to Smile — It Pressures Them to Accept the Unjust Status Quo
Researchers comment moral demands for women to be fun and be happy undermine their citizenship and commitment to community.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Online Dating: Super Effective, or Just… Superficial?
People’s reasoning for “swiping right” on dating apps are based on attractiveness and the race for a potential partner, and these decisions are made in less than a second, a new study reports. Users who perceived themselves to be more attractive swiped…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Eight Ways Chemical Pollutants Harm the Body
From impairing nervous system function and changing bacterial communities in the microbiome to increasing oxidative stress and inflammation, researchers report on the ways in which exposure to chemical pollution harms the body.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Beauty is in the Brain of the Beholder: AI Generates Personally Attractive Images by Reading Brain Data
Combining brain activity data with artificial intelligence, researchers generated faces based upon what individuals considered to be attractive features.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: How the Brain Reads Music: The Evidence for Musical Dyslexia
Identifying musical dyslexia could help explain why some musicians are proficient at reading musical scores, while others excel when it comes to playing by ear.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Why We’re So Bad at Daydreaming, and How to Fix It
When people were presented with a list of scenarios that were meaningful or enjoyable, they enjoyed thinking 50% more than when they were instructed to think about whatever they wanted.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: What I Learned When I Recreated the Famous ‘Doll Test’ That Looked at How Black Kids See Race
A new take on the Clark Doll Test reveals little Black girls still show racial bias in their treatment of Black dolls. Findings reconfirm Black children still view their Blackness in a negative way. Researchers say more focus should be placed on empowe…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Huntington’s Disease Driven by Slowed Protein-Building Machinery in Cells
The mutated huntingtin protein slows ribosome movement and decreases protein synthesis.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Larger Pupils? You Might Just Have Gained Someone’s Trust
Autonomic mimicry in human social interactions is significant, a new study reports. Researchers found in computer facial simulations where the pupils were dilated, test subjects trusted the simulated face more and mimicked the pupillary response.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Anti-Hyperlipidemia Drug Improves Brain Connectivity Schizophrenia
Fenofibrate, a drug developed to control cholesterol, alleviated brain and behavioral abnormalities in mouse models of schizophrenia.
