A “Mortality Gap” – Republicans Are Dying at a Higher Rate Than Democrats
A slowdown in mortality improvements among white Americans residing in Republican counties between 2001 and 2019 was a major factor in the rise in the…
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Patients With Aphasia Use Different Cognitive Tools To Compensate for Language Deficits
Study Illuminates Trade-Off Between Complex Words and Complex Sentences A team of cognitive scientists and doctors finds that patients with aphasia use different cognitive tools…
Unlike Other Fish: Lungfish Brains Have Been Constantly Evolving for 400 Million Years
Brain space provides new insights into ancient lungfish. The evolution of the brain and nervous system in animals has been wound back more than 400 million…
Scientists Discover a Simple Trick To Boost Your Reading Speed by 35% While Maintaining Comprehension
Researchers discovered that switching to a font that was more suitable for the reader increased reading speed while preserving comprehension. Researchers at the University of…
Physicist Claims To Have Solved the Mystery of Consciousness
According to the theory, all that’s needed to solve the hard problem of consciousness is to change our assumptions about it. When we realize that…
Schrödinger Was Wrong: New Research Overturns 100-Year-Old Understanding of Color Perception
A paradigm shift away from the 3D mathematical description developed by Schrödinger and others to describe how we see color could result in more vibrant…
Thousands of Different Scents – Scientists Solve a 30-Year-Old Mystery
A molecular mechanism that enables worms to distinguish different odors has been discovered. For soil-dwelling nematodes that depend primarily on olfaction for survival, the ability…
Salt Might Be the Key to Extraterrestrial Life
New research suggests that salt might be critical to life on Earth and beyond. The composition of the atmosphere, particularly the abundance of greenhouse gases,…
“Time Expansion” – Our Perception of Time Has Slowed
In the early stages of the epidemic, the majority of those who were confined to their homes said that they felt that time moved more…
Researchers Find an Unexpected Cause of Forgiveness
When you experience chronic stress, forgiving is easier. The relationship between personality authenticity (the ability to be oneself) and the ability to forgive under various…
Europe’s Last Panda? New Discovery of Species Closely Related to Giant Panda
Fossilized teeth originally found in the 1970s actually belong to a new, sizeable close relative of the modern giant panda. A new species of panda…
Prehistoric Fossil Fishing at the Farm – Jurassic Marine World Unearthed in a Farmer’s Field
An exceptional prehistoric site containing the remains of animals that lived in a tropical sea has been discovered in a farmer’s field in Gloucestershire, England….
Social Development of Infants Was Not Affected by COVID-19 Pandemic
Health issues and loss, social isolation, and mental health problems – the COVID-19 pandemic has had a drastic effect on our society. But how have…
New Plesiosaur Fossil Discovery – What It Means for the Loch Ness Monster
Plesiosaur fossils discovered in an ancient riverbed suggests some species, traditionally thought to be sea creatures, may have lived in freshwater. Fossils of small plesiosaurs,…
A Surprising Finding Indicates That 800,000-Year-Old Hominins Utilized Fire
The researchers find one of the earliest pieces of evidence supporting the usage of fire using cutting-edge AI methods. There’s a saying that where there’s…
How Will Humans Survive an Apocalypse? A New Study Has an Answer
A study of Western Australia and China during the COVID-19 epidemic suggests that one possibility is to establish a safe refuge. Establishing a safe refuge…
“Bold Theory” That T. rex Was 3 Species Rebutted – “Tyrannosaurus rex Remains the One True King of the Dinosaurs”
Paleontologists find insufficient evidence that the iconic Tyrannosaurus rex should be reclassified. A bold assertion made earlier this year that fossils identified as belonging to…
Research Shows Video Game Players Have Enhanced Brain Activity and Superior Decision-Making Skills
Research findings suggest that video games could be a useful tool for training in perceptual decision-making. Superior sensorimotor decision-making skills and enhanced activity in key…
