Exposure to formaldehyde at work raises risk for cognitive problems later

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Mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 neutralization by shark variable new antigen receptors elucidated through X-ray crystallography

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Reactive Oxygen Species: Not Omnipresent but Important in Many Locations

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Astronomers capture black hole eruption spanning 16 times the full Moon in the sky. As the black hole feeds on in-falling gas, it ejects material at near light-speed, causing ‘radio bubbles’ to grow over hundreds of millions of years.

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Psilocybin Microdosing had no effect on stress or depression in a preregistered, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Study also did not find any evidence that psilocybin makes it easier to identify happy facial expressions as opposed to angry, fearful and sad ones (as previous studies found).

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Contrary to prevailing public belief, Twitter gives the political right higher algorithmic amplification than the political left in six out of seven countries. In the US, algorithmic amplification favors right-leaning news sources. [Data from a long-running, massive-scale randomized experiment]

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Researchers discover older male bull elephants have a calming effect on younger elephants, potentially reducing human-wildlife conflict.

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Healthy people perceive their bodies to be wider than they really are, especially when in a bad mood. This appears to be a milder form of the same distortion experienced by people with eating disorders.

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The world's largest arthropod was a car-sized millipede

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No mountain high enough: study finds plastic in ‘clean’ air

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Autistic boy will graduate High School at 12 and go onto college to become a pediatric neurologist. I believe this kids will be a major asset to the neuroscience community.

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How a future U.S. president helped avert nuclear disaster near Canada's capital

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Shrub expansion preceded megafauna extinction at the end of the last ice age - Researchers clarify the timeline of ancient vegetation changes and extinctions, with implications for combating climate change today.

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Ohio’s Vax-A-Million initiative increases the vaccinated share of state population by 1.5%, costing 68 USD per person persuaded to vaccinate. This causes significant reductions in Covid-19, preventing at least one infection for every six vaccinations that the lottery had successfully encouraged.

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Study shows how cancer cells can remain dormant for years after they leave a tumor for other organs before forming clinically detectable metastases.

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For the first time, scientists map brain Regions responding to the clitoris. A new scientific study has identified the brain region linked to genital touch in women, and found that it was more developed in volunteers who reported having more sex.

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Agoraphobia: An Overview - The Human Condition

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A meta‐analysis of sex differences in animal personality: no evidence for the greater male variability hypothesis. In addition, sexual size dimorphism did not explain variation in the magnitude of the observed sex differences in the mean or variance in personality for any taxonomic group.

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NASA has recorded eerie “sounds” coming from one of Jupiter’s moons, and the audio is like something straight out of a 1950s science fiction movie. Scientists said, the frequency was then “shifted into the audio range,” so we could “hear” Ganymede.

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The permeability of human red blood cell membranes to hydrogen peroxide is independent of aquaporins

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