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A good night’s sleep may help adolescents thrive in school and with friends

Brain scans of 5,832 adolescents (8-11 years) found stronger amygdala responses to emotional faces predicted different social outcomes two years later: increased amygdala activity for girls predicted more involvement with their peers…

Melting icebergs can weaken a massive, far-off ocean current system: from the Pacific to the Atlantic, iceberg melt weakens an ocean system that regulates the global climate

The early History of the Singular Value Decomposition (1993) [pdf]

Loneliness Drives Cognitive Impairment, Can Lead to Shorter Life

A higher percentage of MAGA Republicans (52.2%) than of strong Democrats (32.1%) believed political violence is usually or always justified to achieve at least one political objective

Mathematicians are challenging the idea that dark energy is responsible for the accelerating expansion of the universe

Plastic-Eating Microbe | BioInnovation Group at UC Davis

Current models predict that "slow rotator" galaxies should be rare in the early universe, but astronomers have discovered a galaxy at less than 2Gy after the Big Bang that is not rotating

Wildfires have caused accelerating deforestation in California forests over the past 30 years, especially at high elevations, while replanting efforts have fallen behind.

Regulatory T cells altered in children with autism, highlighting possible role of immunosuppressive cells on neuroinflammation and behavior

Penguin 'Toxicologists' Find PFAS Chemicals in Remote Patagonia

DNA sequencing of the bristlecone pine shows about 21,000 genes in a genome eight times the size of the human genome, with most of the rest being DNA repeats

First in-utero stem cell therapy for fetal spina bifida repair is safe: study

On the Design of Programming Languages (1974) [pdf]

New research analyzing 350 million street view images finds urban tree canopies may reduce cardiovascular disease (-4%), while grassy areas may increase it (+6%)

Chemists have discovered a new route to serotonin receptor agonists by UV treatment of amino acids

The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work (2015)

An analysis of very low frequency earthquakes reveals a fragment of an old tectonic plate moving under the North American plate at the Mendocino Triple Junction

On Being a Human Being in the Time of Collapse (2022) [pdf]

Researchers Develop an LSD Analogue with Potential for Treating Schizophrenia

A novel Stirling engine can generate mechanical power by linking ambient temperature on Earth to the cold of outer space

Ice moons in the outer solar system could have oceans that boil as water reaches the triple point where solid, liquid and gaseous water can coexist

Through analysis of sulfur isotopes in the well-studied HK-1 drill core, researchers showed Earth’s largest mass extinction event didn’t wipe out life on land with a single massive volcanic event

Experimental study shows that rocks in subduction zones can cement themselves back together after breaking during slow slip events

New species of trapdoor spider identified in California's coastal dunes

Astronomers Find Mystery Dark Object in Distant Universe

Through analysis of deep-water sediments, researchers have found evidence that shifts in carbon cycling and climate that occurred during both our present icehouse and the penultimate one 300 million years ago were influenced by extraterrestrial…

Pancreatic islet delta cells are synchronized with insulin-producing beta cells

Effect of the inflows of immigrants on European workers’ careers (2013) [pdf]

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