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Sleep duration and timing are associated with next-day physical activity: Insights from two large-scale wearable sensor studies | PNAS

Microplastics from food packaging, tableware could pose threat to gut, trigger diabetes

Stalled planetary waves tied to extreme summer weather—like floods and heatwaves—have tripled since 1950, a new study finds

CRISPR experiments suggest female fruit flies are more resilient to disturbances of their circadian system than males

Archaeological evidence shows widespread habitual fire use by humans began around 50,000 years ago, reshaping cultural and environmental behaviors

Nearly half of tree-covered land faces major climate shifts even under modest warming, threatening most tree species as many lose suitable conditions and some face novel climates across significant portions of their remaining range…

Researchers using the same data and hypothesis arrive at different conclusions (2022)

Global yields of wheat are around 10% lower now than they would have been without the influence of climate change, according to a new study

Assembly of a functional neuronal circuit in embryos of an ancestral metazoan is influenced by temperature and the microbiome | PNAS

GPT-4o shows humanlike patterns of cognitive dissonance moderated by free choice

Researchers have long puzzled over exactly how DNA is spooled within nucleosomes and arranged inside the nucleus so that some genes are more easily activated

Social anxiety disorder-associated gut microbiota increases social fear

Industrial iron pollution is boosting spring phytoplankton blooms in the North Pacific but also speeding up nutrient loss – driving earlier nitrogen limitation and expanding low-productivity waters.

Brain aging shows nonlinear transitions, suggesting a midlife "critical window"

Neuron–Astrocyte Associative Memory

A study identified evidence of "use of psychoactive plants in institutionalized ritual in the first millennium BCE, demonstrating that even in their early stages, sociopolitically complex societies incorporated psychoactive plants into ritual activity."

Improving baby health in developing countries could start with videos on a smart phone

For decades, scientists searching for the root cause of depression have mostly focused on neurons and their chemical signals

The SIK3-N783Y mutation is associated with the human natural short sleep trait

After the U.S

Audits of the 2020 American election show an accurate vote count – Scholars have compiled every available audit of votes cast in the 2020 elections, finding an inconsequential net error rate (an error rate on the order of thousandths of a percent)

Some fish have the remarkable ability to navigate and locate prey in total darkness using nothing but electrical fields

A fast-moving cloud on the outskirts of the Milky Way may harbor a dark galaxy

How nidoviruses evolved the largest known RNA genomes

A recent study in Cell Systems sheds light on how skin cancer cells develop resistance to vemurafenib, a BRAF inhibitor that targets melanoma

New study explains how plants are communicating and how this can be used as programmable interface.

An ancient yeast found clinging to pots at archaeological sites in Patagonia is the same strain used to brew lagers in Bavaria some 400 years later

Scientists engineered bacteria to grow glass coatings, turning them into tiny lenses

Recent projections suggest that large geographical areas will soon experience heat and humidity exceeding limits for human thermoregulation - The study found humans struggle to thermoregulate at wet bulb temperatures above 26–31 °C, significantly below the commonly cited 35 °C threshold.

Most Christian American religious leaders silently believe in climate change - Nearly 90% of U.S

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