Emergent blink rate in early childhood is associated with neural origins of executive function

Higher semaglutide dose is associated with lower neuropsychiatric event incidence independent of weight loss

Researchers worry that generative AI is homogenizing culture and cognition

Global disease outbreak maps track healthcare access far more than actual ecology

Targeting the best-connected buyers of green hydrogen makes subsidies up to 41% more cost-effective

A study tracking 9,419 meals in 173 patients suggests cutting sugar intake before and during antibiotic treatment may help protect the gut microbiome, with lower sugar intake linked to less microbial diversity loss and mouse experiments suggesting a protective effect.

Nos1 neurons in the paraventricular hypothalamic area modulate lipid metabolism via the sympathetic nervous system in male mice

A review of 1,624 estimates since the 1970s found scientists still cannot agree how much water the world's farms actually draw for irrigation, and the guesses are getting worse, not better.

YAP1 induces hepatocellular carcinoma via DNA demethylation rather than by canonical driver gene mutationsh

Body Awareness in Goffin's Cockatoos

African elephants putatively self-medicate with medicinal plants

Probing picosecond depairing currents in type-II superconductors

A 450 year catch record shows the fishery that once funded medieval Europe's salted fish trade collapsed from climate shifts, overfishing and economics together, not any one cause.

A survey of 3,751 Syrian and Iraqi refugees found that drought made war's mental toll worse.

Using data from 10 countries, researchers find that the expansion of high-paying finance jobs is a major driver of rising geographic inequality, not simply the growth of big cities.

PQBP1-dependent alternative RNA splicing underlies high calorie diet-induced cognitive impairmentbv

Pregnant mice crave food much as pregnant women report. Researchers traced it to serotonin brain cells that fire less during pregnancy.

Prenatal cannabis exposure was associated with alterations in large-scale functional brain network connectivity in late childhood, higher levels of psychopathology and significant differences across multiple cognitive domains, according to a study on 10,838 children (9-10 years)

In a prospective study of 104,806 adults followed for a median 8.1 years, greater differences in meal timing between weekdays and weekends were associated with higher cardiovascular disease risk in men

'Epigenetic' editing banishes hepatitis B virus

Prevalence and chronology of colibactin-associated mutational processes and their microbiome spectra in Japanese colorectal cancer

Accelerometer data from 57 adults (and 17 wrist/hip data) tracked for 90 days suggests that participants with high cadence and high peak height in their gait were less likely to be depressed or anxious

Intratumoral T cell activation kills tumors regardless of T cell specificity | Nature Immunology

A global analysis from 1979–2023 found the first heatwave now arrives about two weeks earlier, the last ends 24 days later, and heatwave seasons have lengthened by roughly 39 days, with 92% of land areas showing a trend toward longer heatwave seasons.

Modelling over 16,000 groundwater samples, researchers found wells near land vulnerable to shale gas spills were three times more likely to carry deep drilling fluid chemicals.

The structure and lasting impact of the Roman road system

New evidence for hidden chambers beyond Tutankhamun's tomb

Catching Crumbs from the Table (2000)

A UK study of 44 major food and beverage manufacturers found that, for many companies, changing 10% or less of their product portfolios could achieve more than half of their potential improvements in nutritional quality and environmental sustainability.

Magic-mushroom compound blocks a side effect of chemotherapy in mice

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