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July 16, 2025
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July 12, 2025 — Scientists at ETH Zurich have broken new ground by generating over 400 types of nerve cells from stem cells in the lab, far surpassing previous efforts that produced only a few dozen. By ...
July 5, 2025 — People who treat hearing loss with hearing aids or cochlear implants regain rich conversations, escape isolation, and may even protect their brains and lifespans—proof that better hearing translates into fuller ...
July 2, 2025 — Locked-down Hungarians who gained or lost pets saw almost no lasting shift in mood or loneliness, and new dog owners actually felt less calm and satisfied over time—hinting that the storied “pet effect” may be more myth than mental-health ...
June 29, 2025 — Deleting a gene called PTEN in certain brain cells disrupts the brain’s fear circuitry and triggers anxiety-like behavior in mice — key traits seen in autism. Researchers mapped how this genetic tweak throws off the brain's delicate balance of ...
June 2, 2025 — Human-AI interactions are well understood in terms of trust and companionship. However, the role of attachment and experiences in such relationships is not entirely clear. In a new breakthrough, researchers from Waseda University have devised a ...
May 29, 2025 — Humans and mice share persistent brain-activity patterns in response to adverse sensory experience, scientists find, opening a window to our emotions and, perhaps, neuropsychiatric ...
May 29, 2025 — Interactive robots should not just be passive companions, but active partners -- like therapy horses who respond to human emotion -- say ...
May 28, 2025 — Parental warmth and affection in early childhood can have life-long physical and mental health benefits for children, and new research points to an important underlying process: children's sense of ...
May 28, 2025 — Researchers have a new hypothesis for how brain cells called astrocytes might contribute to memory storage in the brain. Their model, known as dense associative memory, would help explain the brain's massive storage ...
May 26, 2025 — A new study examines the emergence of overimitation in infants aged between 16 and 21 months to see if and how it is linked to social affiliation and other forms of imitation. The researchers found ...
May 21, 2025 — The way people express emotions while helping others can influence whether their assistance is welcomed, resented, or reciprocated, according to new ...
May 21, 2025 — The smallest grooves on the brain's surface, unique to humans, have largely been ignored by anatomists, but recent studies show that they're related to cognitive performance, including face recognition and reasoning ability. A new study shows that ...
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July 3, 2025 — Anger isn’t just a fleeting emotion—it plays a deeper role in women’s mental and physical health during midlife. A groundbreaking study tracking over 500 women aged 35 to 55 reveals that anger ...
May 27, 2025 — A new study shows that people who proactively reorganise their family routines -- such as adjusting childcare schedules or redistributing domestic responsibilities -- are more likely to demonstrate ...
May 20, 2025 — Researchers have discovered how an ion channel in the brain's neurons has a kind of 'molecular memory', which contributes to the formation and preservation of lifelong memories. The researchers have ...
May 20, 2025 — Our ability to store information about familiar objects depends on the connection between visual and language processing regions in the brain, ...
May 16, 2025 — Palliative care is specialized medical care focused on easing symptoms, addressing psychological and spiritual needs, and helping patients and ...
May 15, 2025 — A collaborative study tested 17 strategies in an 'intervention tournament.' Interventions targeting future thinking, such as writing a letter for a child to read in the future, are the most effective ...
May 13, 2025 — Researchers identified two brain networks involved in word retrieval -- the cognitive process of accessing words we need to speak. A semantic network processes meaning in middle/inferior frontal ...
May 13, 2025 — Hormone levels fluctuate like the tides, ebbing and flowing according to carefully orchestrated cycles. These hormones not only influence the body, ...
May 12, 2025 — Lowering the legal tackle height in women's rugby is proving effective in reducing head contacts between players, a new study suggests. Changes to the tackle height law in women's community rugby in ...
May 12, 2025 — A team of researchers has identified distinct mother-offspring attachment types in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus). Drawing parallels with human psychology, the study provides compelling ...
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May 12, 2025 — Providing hearing aids and advice on their use may preserve social connections that often wane as we age, a new study shows. Its authors say that this approach could help ease the loneliness epidemic ...
May 9, 2025 — Wild chimpanzees alter the meaning of single calls when embedding them into diverse call combinations, mirroring linguistic operations in human language. Human language, however, allows an infinite ...
May 8, 2025 — How relatedness-to-nature is linked to well-being is determined by district-level socioeconomic status. A new analysis is based on survey results from two major Japanese metropolitan ...
May 8, 2025 — What makes people think an AI system is creative? New research shows that it depends on how much they see of the creative act. The findings have implications for how we research and design creative ...
May 7, 2025 — Parents' genes -- even when not directly inherited by a child -- may play a role in their educational and mental health outcomes, finds a new ...
May 7, 2025 — Psychology literature has shown that curiosity tends to decline with age. Psychologists shows one type of curiosity can increase well into old age, contradicting prior research. Older adults who ...
May 7, 2025 — Researchers have developed a new type of pipette that can deliver ions to individual neurons without affecting the sensitive extracellular milieu. Controlling the concentration of different ions can ...
May 7, 2025 — A new study surveyed 21,000 children in China and found that the association between parental bereavement and school bullying varied by sex of the child and deceased parent, age when the death ...
May 7, 2025 — A study of starlings in Africa shows that they form long-term social bonds similar to human ...
May 6, 2025 — Your optimal amount of sleep may depend on where you live, new research has found. An analysis of sleep data and health outcomes for nearly 5,000 people in 20 countries revealed that the hours of ...
May 5, 2025 — Children who grow up in disadvantaged neighborhoods -- areas with higher levels of crime and deprivation, and lower access to community resources -- are at risk of developing depression, and new ...
May 5, 2025 — Friendship comes with complex pros and cons -- possibly explaining why some individuals are less sociable, according to a new study of ...
May 5, 2025 — Snuff tubes uncovered at Chavin de Huantar in Peru reveal how leaders used mystical experiences to cement their ...
May 5, 2025 — Physically punishing children in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) has exclusively negative outcomes -- including poor health, lower academic performance, and impaired social-emotional ...
May 2, 2025 — New findings suggest neurons have much more functional dexterity than scientists previously ...
May 2, 2025 — What is the secret to happiness? Does happiness come from within, or is it shaped by external influences such as our jobs, health, relationships and material circumstances? A new study shows that ...
Apr. 30, 2025 — An AI tool has made a step forward in translating the language proteins use to dictate whether they form sticky clumps similar to those linked to Alzheimer's Disease and around fifty other types ...
Apr. 30, 2025 — A national survey of 2,600 nurses and nursing students reveals a profession under severe strain, with widespread stress, burnout, and staffing shortages threatening both nurse well-being and patient ...
Apr. 29, 2025 — Social singing and dance are often assumed to be hard-wired into the human condition; studies have supported the conclusion that these are common across cultures. But new research from an ...
Apr. 24, 2025 — Humans are better than current AI models at interpreting social interactions and understanding social dynamics in moving scenes. Researchers believe this is because AI neural networks were inspired ...
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Thursday, May 8, 2025
- Nature Visits Can Improve Well-Being Disparities Among Urban Dwellers
- Is AI Truly Creative? Turns out Creativity Is in the Eye of the Beholder
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
- Non-Inherited Genes Affect Children's Development
- Are You Curious? It Might Help You Stay Sharp as You Age
- A Pipette That Can Activate Individual Neurons
- Losing a Parent May Increase Children's Risk of Being Bullied
- Birds Form Bonds That Look a Lot Like Friendship
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Monday, May 5, 2025
- Neighborhood Stress May Impact Kids' Brains -- And Increase Depression Risk
- Gorilla Study Reveals Complex Pros and Cons of Friendship
- Ancient Andes Society Used Hallucinogens to Strengthen Social Order
- Spanking and Other Physical Discipline Lead to Exclusively Negative Outcomes for Children in Low And Middle-Income Countries
Friday, May 2, 2025
- Our Ability to Recognize Objects Depends on Prior Experience
- The Secret to Happiness Lies Within You, or Society -- Or Both
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
- 'Explainable' AI Cracks Secret Language of Sticky Proteins
- Nursing 2025: No Relief in Sight as Burnout, Stress and Short Staffing Persist
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
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- By 15 Months, Infants Begin to Learn New Words for Objects, Even Those They've Never Seen
- Empathy Might Be Retained in Alzheimer's Disease
- Family Dynamics Shape Body Image Differently Across Cultures
Monday, April 21, 2025
- Novel Treatment Approach for Language Disorder Shows Promise
- High-Tech Sticker Can Identify Real Human Emotions
Saturday, April 19, 2025
Friday, April 18, 2025
- Environmental Variability Promotes the Evolution of Cooperation Among Humans: A Simulation-Based Analysis
- Researchers Use Machine Learning to Predict Exercise Adherence
Thursday, April 17, 2025
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Tuesday, April 15, 2025
- Primate Mothers Display Different Bereavement Response to Humans
- Simulate Sound in 3D at a Finer Scale Than Humans Can Perceive
Monday, April 14, 2025
- How Does Our Brain Regulate Generosity?
- Sleep Matters: Duration, Timing, Quality and More May Affect Cardiovascular Disease Risk
- Stress, Depression Factor Into Link Between Insomnia, Heavy Drinking
Friday, April 11, 2025
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
- Scientists Complete Largest Wiring Diagram and Functional Map of the Brain to Date
- Lip Sync: Study Reveals Gender Differences in Preference for Lip Size
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Monday, April 7, 2025
- Mindfulness and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Improve Chronic Low Back Pain
- Childhood Experiences Shape the Brain's White Matter With Cognitive Effects Seen Years Later
- Perceiving One's Own Body: Babies Sense Their Heartbeat and Breathing
- Brain's Own Repair Mechanism: New Neurons May Reverse Damage in Huntington's Disease
- Molecules That Fight Infection Also Act on the Brain, Inducing Anxiety or Sociability
- Exposure to Air Pollution May Harm Brain Health of Older Adults
Friday, April 4, 2025
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Monday, March 31, 2025
- My Robot Therapist: The Ethics of AI Mental Health Chatbots for Kids
- PTSD Can Undermine Healthy Couple Communication When People Fear Their Emotions
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
- Your Neighborhood May Affect Your Risk of Dementia
- Adulting Is Hard on the Heart: Teen to Young Adulthood Is a Critical Time to Address Risk
- Repetitive Behaviors and Special Interests Are More Indicative of an Autism Diagnosis Than a Lack of Social Skills
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
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Tuesday, March 18, 2025
- Gender Gap in Teenage Depression Is Twice as Large in London Than in Tokyo, New Study Finds
- To the Brain, Esperanto and Klingon Appear the Same as English or Mandarin
- When Did Human Language Emerge?
Monday, March 17, 2025
- Attention Can Be Used to Drive Cooperation
- Bridging Nature and Nurture: Study Reveals Brain's Flexible Foundation from Birth
Thursday, March 13, 2025
- Why It's Good to Be Nostalgic: Study Suggests You May Have More Close Friends
- Retiring Abroad Puts Older Adults at Risk for Loneliness
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
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Monday, March 10, 2025
- What's in a Label? It's Different for Boys Vs. Girls, New Study of Parents Finds
- Decoding the Neural Basis of Affective Empathy: How the Brain Feels Others' Pain
- Humans Have a Long Way to Go in Understanding a Dog's Emotions
Sunday, March 9, 2025
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
- Prenatal Maternal Stressors Linked to Higher Blood Pressure During First Year After Birth, Study Shows
- Nearly 4 of 10 Americans Report Sports-Related Mistreatment
Monday, March 3, 2025
- It's Not Just What You Say -- It's Also How You Say It
- ChatGPT on the Couch? How to Calm a Stressed-out AI
Friday, February 28, 2025
- How Many Languages Can You Learn at the Same Time? -- Ghanaian Babies Grow Up Speaking Two to Six Languages
- Research Indicates Effects of PTSD on Body Vary by Culture
Thursday, February 27, 2025
- Sometimes, When Competitors Collaborate, Everybody Wins
- Improving Relationships Between Dads and Daughters... It's a Walk in the Park
- Trying to Be Happy Makes Us Unhappier by Zapping Our Self-Control, Study Finds
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
- First Female Runner Could Soon Break the 4-Minute-Mile Barrier
- Screening and Treating Maternal Psychological Health Key to Improving Cardiovascular Health
- We Need a New Definition of Dyslexia, Research Says
- Clashing With Classmates: Off-Putting Traits Spark Enemy Relationships
Friday, February 21, 2025
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Wednesday, February 19, 2025
- Like Human Brains, Large Language Models Reason About Diverse Data in a General Way
- Groundbreaking Study Reveals How Topology Drives Complexity in Brain, Climate, and AI
- Ai in Retail: How to Spark Creativity and Improve Job Satisfaction
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
- New Therapy Reduces Reoffending in Male Offenders With Antisocial Personality Disorder
- A Single Protein May Have Helped Shape the Emergence of Spoken Language
Monday, February 17, 2025
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Wednesday, February 12, 2025
- Dating Is Not Broken, but the Trajectories of Relationships Have Changed
- Meet the Newly Discovered Brain Cell That Allows You to Remember Objects
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
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Thursday, February 6, 2025
- Improved Brain Decoder Holds Promise for Communication in People With Aphasia
- Fear of Breast Cancer Recurrence: Impact and Coping With Being in a Dark Place