Toddlers are highly subject to recency bias when faced with “or” questions: They tend to pick the last option, even if it’s not what they actually want

Amygdala-to-hippocampus communication and reactivation of negative memories

Drawing design inspiration from the skin of squids and other cephalopods, engineers develop an adaptive space blanket that gives users the ability to control their temperature

Antarctica experienced a sixfold increase in yearly ice mass loss between 1979 and 2017, study finds

Smoke from fires in Indonesia in the summer and fall of 2015, causing adverse health effects for millions of people, contained carbon from plants that were alive during the Middle Ages.

A new immunotherapy technique identifies T cell receptors with 100-percent specificity for individual tumors within just a few days, that can quickly create individualized cancer treatments that will allow physicians to effectively target tumors without the side effects of standard cancer drugs.

A team of scientists from the University of California, Irvine has found evidence of significant mass loss in East Antarctica’s Totten and Moscow University glaciers, which, if they fully collapsed, could add 5 meters (16.4 feet) to the global sea level.

Female singers with upbeat dance songs are far more likely to make the bestseller music charts, according to a new study

Teens work very hard to create a favorable online image through careful selection of which photos, activities and links to post on Facebook and Instagram, according to a recent study

UCI chemists create battery technology with off-the-charts charging capacity

Small climb in mean temperatures is linked to far higher chance of deadly heat waves: An analysis of heat-related mortality in India between 1960 and 2009 found a mean temperature increase of 0.5°C increases the probability of a heat wave killing more than 100 people by 146%

Chemists at the University of California, Irvine have developed a way to neutralize deadly snake venom more cheaply and effectively than with traditional anti-venom.

Mars-bound astronauts face chronic dementia risk

Today’s parents spend more time with their kids than moms and dads did 50 years ago

Study finds good-looking people report higher salaries

UC study links brain inflammation triggered by chronic pain to anxiety and depression

Neurobiologists have successfully re-created a critical juvenile period in the brains of adult mice

UC Irvine Chemists find a way to unboil eggs: Ability to quickly restore molecular proteins could slash biotech costs

Physiological and molecular mechanisms converge to explain efficacy of multiple, short learning sessions for strengthening memory formation

A team has designed an app to turn the global network of smartphones into a planet-sized cosmic ray detector

Satellites reveal possible catastrophic flooding months in advance

Study finds that learning by repetition impairs recall of details: Technique does enhance key facts in memories but blurs nuance and complexity

West Antarctic glacier loss appears unstoppable, UCI-NASA Study Finds: A rapidly melting section of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appears to be in irreversible decline, with nothing to stop the entire glacial basin from disappearing into the sea…