Collective intelligence can help reduce medical misdiagnoses: An estimated 250,000 people die from preventable medical errors in the U.S. each year

The menstrual rhythm of the brain

Study shows antibodies against PEG in 83% of the German population

Wendelstein 7-X: Gigajoule energy turnover generated for eight minutes

New insights into the origin of the Indo-European languages

Drag Your GAN: Interactive Point-Based Manipulation of Images

Living longer may also mean spending more time dying

Jellyfish-like robots could one day clean up the world’s oceans

Algorithms and Data Structures (2007) [pdf]

Research found that also viewing digital paintings on screen cause significant improvements in mood and anxiety after just a few minutes of viewing

New discovery points the way to more compact fusion power plants

Ancient DNA reveals the multiethnic structure of Mongolia’s first nomadic empire

Numeral Systems of the World's Languages (2021)

Dairy Foods Helped Ancient Tibetans Thrive in one of Earth’s Most Inhospitable Environments

Researchers, with the help of magnetic resonance tomography, have found evidence that the language we speak shapes the connectivity in our brains that may underlie the way we think

Air pollution disrupts sexual communication in flies — females are less attracted to males, and males attempt to copulate with other males

Parental investment may have aided evolution of larger brains

Scientists discovered that a change in the brain's neural pathways while dieting facilitates rebound weight gain, this discovery could be a target for drugs to combat the yo-yo effect

Ice Age Survivors

Life in the smoke of underwater volcanoes

Researchers have now shown that foods with a high fat and sugar content change our brain, and If we regularly eat even small amounts of them, the brain learns to consume precisely these foods in the future and it unconsciously learns to prefer high-fat snacks

An international team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology and the University of Tennessee has now identified a new aerial leader: the Brazilian free-tailed bat

Swing Ratio

Brown algae could remove up to 0.55 gigatons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere every year, study finds

Moles shrink their skull and brain size in winter, to conserve energy

Critical ignoring as a core competence for digital citizens

Braess's Paradox

Research shows animals are key to restoring the world’s forests

Study has tracked wild birds over three countries in Europe to examine the long-term impact of fireworks before and after New Year’s Eve and found changes in birds behaviour that persisted well after the fireworks ended

Technical milestone reached: global earth system simulations with 1.2 km resoln

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