Forgotten Memories: Brain Engrams & Behavior
Research reveals forgotten memories leave engrams in the hippocampus, influencing behavior even without conscious recall. Brain activation patterns demonstrate subconscious memory impact.
Bivalves: Survival and Diversity After Mass Extinction
Bivalves faced mass extinction, losing species but retaining diverse ecological roles. Post-extinction recovery saw unexpected shifts, with new species dominating. Human impact threatens future biodiversity, mirroring past upheavals.
Solar Orbiter: First Images of Sun’s South Pole!
The Solar Orbiter, a joint ESA/NASA mission, captures the first-ever images of the Sun's south pole, revealing previously hidden regions and helping understand the solar cycle and space weather forecasting. Electromagnetic fields also measured.
Black Hole Simulation: Quantum Effects & Hawking Radiation
Researchers are using light and quantum effects to simulate black holes, exploring Hawking radiation and the possibility of black hole impostors. The experiment tests gravity and quantum interactions.
Neanderthal Fingerprint: 43,000-Year-Old Pigment Art in Spain
Multispectral photography reveals a 43,000-year-old Neanderthal fingerprint on a red pigment-marked rock in Spain. This discovery adds to the growing reevaluation of Neanderthal cognitive abilities and symbolic thought.
Brain Development: Soft Electronic Implant for Neural Activity Tracking
Researchers developed a soft, elastic mesh implant to track neural activity in developing brains. This innovative tool offers insights into brain development and neurological disorders like autism and schizophrenia.
JWST Creates Largest Map of the Universe: Discoveries!
JWST's COSMOS-Web map, spanning cosmic time, reveals 800,000 galaxies, including unexpectedly numerous galaxies and supermassive black holes, challenging cosmological models and boosting deep space exploration.
M87’s Supermassive Black Hole Spin & Feeding Rate
Scientists using Event Horizon Telescope images reveal M87's black hole spins near its theoretical limit (0.8-0.998) and feeds relatively quietly. Jet power matches infalling matter, impacting galaxy formation understanding.
Dead Sea Scrolls: AI & Radiocarbon Revolutionize Dating
AI and radiocarbon dating revolutionize Dead Sea Scrolls research, revealing older dates and challenging assumptions about literacy in ancient Judea. New insights on texts like Daniel & Ecclesiastes.
Black Holes: Nature’s Powerful Dark Matter Collider?
Supermassive black holes may be nature's own particle colliders, potentially revealing dark matter. Scientists propose searching for high-energy particles from black hole collisions using observatories. Supercolliders, Dark matter, Black holes.
Worm Towers: Nematodes Build Tentacle-Like Structures
Nematode worms form towers, tentacle-like structures, to bridge gaps and hitchhike on other creatures when food is scarce. These towers, studied by Ding et al., are superorganisms aiding worm dispersal.
NASA Turmoil: Trump’s Budget Cuts & Leadership Change
President Trump's proposed budget cuts to NASA science and withdrawal of Jared Isaacman as NASA leader have triggered turmoil. Cuts threaten key missions and spark widespread opposition. Budget decrease 25%.