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Medical Xpress / Singing mice speak volumes: Brain mechanisms behind song production explored in new research

All mice squeak, but only some sing. Scotinomys teguina, aka Alston's singing mice, hail from the cloud forests of Costa Rica. More than 2,000 miles north, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) neuroscientists study these ...

Dec 1, 2025 in Medical research
Phys.org / Structural racism and cultural misunderstanding compound grief for Black British, Black Caribbean communities: Study

Inequities in how bereavement is experienced and supported among people of Black British and Black Caribbean heritage in England has been revealed in a new study led by the University of Bristol. The research, published in ...

Dec 2, 2025 in Other Sciences
Phys.org / Simple gel jelly beads on liquid surface reveal secrets of slow earthquakes

Slow earthquakes have been discovered to exhibit anomalously slow, long-lasting and small slips, adjacent to regular earthquakes where we sometimes feel catastrophic vibration. However, no one knows the reason why slow earthquakes ...

Dec 1, 2025 in Earth
Phys.org / How to watch the last supermoon of the year

The last supermoon of the year will shine soon in December skies.

Dec 1, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Humans and artificial neural networks exhibit some similar patterns during learning

Past psychology and behavioral science studies have identified various ways in which people's acquisition of new knowledge can be disrupted. One of these, known as interference, occurs when humans are learning new information ...

Nov 29, 2025 in Physics
Tech Xplore / Small changes make some AI systems more brain-like than others

Artificial intelligence systems that are designed with a biologically inspired architecture can simulate human brain activity before ever being trained on any data, according to new research from Johns Hopkins University.

Dec 1, 2025 in Machine learning & AI
Phys.org / Delaying building block supply boosts self-assembly efficiency of complex systems, biophysicists demonstrate

The ability to self-organize is a key feature of biological systems and is widely found in nature: small building blocks that autonomously assemble give rise to macromolecules such as the cell nucleus, virus capsids, or complex ...

Dec 1, 2025 in Biology
Medical Xpress / Stem cell organoids mimic aspects of early limb development

Scientists at EPFL have created a scalable 3D organoid model that captures key features of early limb development, revealing how a specialized signaling center shapes both cell identity and tissue organization.

Dec 1, 2025 in Medical research
Medical Xpress / From cessation to celebration: Nicotine pouches go viral on TikTok

While originally created as a way to help people stop smoking, a UBC Okanagan researcher is raising concerns about oral nicotine pouches being portrayed as trendy and pleasurable, especially among young people.

Dec 2, 2025 in Health
Tech Xplore / Advances in spacecraft control: New algorithm guarantees precision under extreme disturbances

An international team of researchers has unveiled a spacecraft attitude control system that can guarantee precise stabilization and maneuvering within a predefined time, even under extreme and unpredictable space disturbances.

Dec 1, 2025 in Engineering
Medical Xpress / Protein abnormality illuminates communication struggles in autism

A DGIST research team identified that the mutation of the collybistin protein found in autistic patients weakens the brain's inhibitory synaptic function and leads to communication deficiencies. The results of this research ...

Dec 1, 2025 in Neuroscience
Phys.org / 'Baby boom' of Bonelli's eagles during COVID lockdown unmasks impact of human activity

Thanks to more than three decades of monitoring, researchers at the University of Granada reveal how human absence during the pandemic impacted the reproduction of a threatened species: the Bonelli's eagle

Dec 1, 2025 in Biology