For decades, scientists have understood that when a person perceives something as pleasurable, dopamine is released in their brain. Hear a favorite song come on the radio? Dopamine time. See the vending machine accidentally release two treats…
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Scientists discovered a tiny but dangerous new animal species
A biology team pitched their tents one night inside Thailand’s Kaeng Krachan National Park. While checking rocks near camp, the group lifted a flat slab and met a tiny brown scorpion, Scorpiops krachana, staring back with a startling array of…
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Scientists Unearth 240-Million-Year-Old ‘Dragon’ Fossil in China – A Stunning Triassic Find
In February 2024, paleontologists from across the globe unveiled new and groundbreaking details about the Dinocephalosaurus orientalis, a marine reptile that roamed the Earth over 240 million years ago during the Middle Triassic period. This…
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Machines compete in martial arts at World Humanoid Robot Games
Beijing opened the first World Humanoid Robot Games Thursday evening at the National Speed Skating Oval.
The three-day event, running until Sunday, brings together 280 teams from 16 countries. Over 500 humanoid robots will compete in sports,…
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Scientists decode inner speech from brain activity with high accuracy
Scientists have pinpointed brain activity related to inner speech-the silent monologue in people’s heads-and successfully decoded it on command with up to 74% accuracy. Publishing August 14 in the Cell Press journal Cell, their…
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New 2025 guidelines focus on early intervention and lifestyle to manage high blood pressure
Preventing and managing high blood pressure with healthy lifestyle behaviors, such as following a heart-healthy diet including reducing salt intake, staying physically active, maintaining a healthy weight and managing…
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300,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools Suggest Ancient Humans Also Ate Veggies, Not Just Meat
We almost always associate the ancient human diet with one of excessive meat, with a few berries mixed in here and there. It’s mostly true that early humans ate a diet of what they could safely get their hands on, while avoiding crossing paths…
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Dual epigenetic marks found to regulate cell identity
Shedding light on what determines how cells become what they are meant to be-nerves, bone, muscles, etc.-can also help researchers understand how diseases develop when these biological programs break down.
Now, researchers at Case…
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Caffeine Can Reduce Effectiveness of Certain Antibiotics, New Research Suggests
Researchers from the University of Tübingen and the University of Würzburg have found that ingredients of our daily diet — including caffeine — can influence the resistance of bacteria to antibiotics; they’ve discovered that bacteria…
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