Deciphering the Link Between Neural Activity and Blood Flow in the Brain

For years, neuroscientists have sought to reconcile conflicting findings about how brain activity relates to blood flow. A new study suggests that the answer lies in a hidden balance between two oppos...

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AI helped produce two proofs for the same cryptography problem

An M.I.T. Ph.D. student and two University of California system cryptographers used GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra in different ways, raising new questions about independent discovery and scientific credit

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Reincarnation: Truth, or an Addiction?

Someone talked about ‘reincarnation,’ or a desire for reincarnation in some cultures, as an addiction. Here is a response… Perhaps only in part, for this – reincarnation &#8…

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Immigrants to America

The Indigenous and Descendants of Immigrants in America A quiet summer day at the local Public Library’s second-hand book shop, ‘The FriendsPlace.’ I volunteered there as a cashie…

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Odd shapes hidden in dense Amazon rainforest reveal sprawling ancient civilization

Newly found earthworks suggest about 3 million people might have lived in just about 3% of the forest’s entire area

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Naturally occurring molecule rivals Ozempic in weight loss, sidesteps side effects

A Stanford Medicine study taps artificial intelligence to find a naturally occurring molecule called a peptide that suppressed appetite and led to weight loss in mice and pigs.

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Sam Altman says we are in the singularity: 'This is the moment'

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he believes the technological singularity, the moment when artificial intelligence surpasses humans intelligence, is here.

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Chinese university launches probe into girl’s gene-editing death

More than a year after failed clinical trial, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine promises “serious action”

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Evolution of the vertebrate retina by repurposing of a composite ancestral median eye

The vertebrate retina differs dramatically from that in all other animal eyes. In this review, Kafetzis et al. argue that, before the vertebrates, a series of lifestyle changes in ‘our’ lineage led to...

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The Organisms That Make Earth’s Harshest Places Home | Quanta Magazine

Extremophiles that thrive in the most unforgiving environments aren’t just biological curiosities. Understanding their resilience has many implications for us.

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Europe's heat waves are killing thousands—and wringing its soils dry

The European continent is facing a dual reckoning this summer—extreme heat is killing thousands and draining its rivers, soils and reservoirs at a record pace

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Martin Picard’s Mitochondrial Theory of Mind | Quanta Magazine

The biologist’s bold “energetic view of life” looks to the body’s strangest organelles as the link between cells, health, and mind and the foundation of our experience of being alive.

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ChatGPT just proved another 50-year-old math conjecture

What’s the secret to prompting an AI to solve math problems that have left humans stumped? Tell it to believe in itself

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Mathematicians still don’t know the fastest way to multiply numbers

A 23-year-old student overturned an ancient conjecture about one of math’s simplest operations

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Testing the problem of time with cold atoms

An ultracold atomic gas is used as a self-contained miniuniverse to show that time can be defined without an external clock. It's demonstrated that entropy exchange between different sectors of the sy...

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New U.S. passports with Trump's image are available. Here's how to get (or avoid) one

The passports feature an image of President Trump and are only available in person at the Washington Passport Agency — and only by appointment.

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Humbling and Humility

Humbling and Humility - Kindle edition by Nejar, Rian. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Humbling and Humility.

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Controls developed to reshape quantum arrow of time | LANL

Physicists unveil quantum control protocols that reverse the arrow of time, enabling energy extraction and novel state preparation in qubits.

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For the First Time, a Cell Built From Scratch Grows and Divides | Quanta Magazine

Scientists built a synthetic cell that combines more lifelike properties than ever before — proof of concept that it’s possible to bring nonliving materials to life, or something close to it, in the l...

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Woman Notices Mushrooms In Her Yard Growing In Strange Pattern. Then People Warn Her What It Really Is: ‘Respectfully Get OUT’

Commenters began to explain that what Angela was seeing in her garden was something called a 'fairy circle.'

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Pigeons live ‘at the edge of chaos,’ researchers confirm

Pigeons seem to defy a century-old psychology law about how rewards and consequences help us learn

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