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Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Study finds tiny brain area controls work for rewards

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The lateral habenula in the mouse brain, with axons streaming down to dopaminergic and serotonergic centers. Credit: Warden Lab A tiny but i...

Signs of Saturation Emerge from Particle Collisions at RHIC

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Brookhaven Lab physicists Xiaoxuan Chu and Elke-Caroline Aschenauer at the STAR detector of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). Sour...

Peering Into Mirror Nuclei

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Diagram showing a high-energy electron scattering from a correlated nucleon in the mirror nuclei tritium (left) and helium-3 (right). The el...

"Greener" Fertilizer and Carbon-free Fuels Come Closer to Reality

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Photo by Richard Bell on Unsplash A little over 100 years ago, humankind learned how to take nitrogen from the atmosphere (where it is plen...

Climate change and ocean oxygen

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Oxygen-deficient zones (in red) shrank during long warm periods in the past, contrary to widespread expectations.    Image Credit: Alexandra...

Marine Protected Areas in Antarctica should include young emperor penguins, scientists say

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A group of Juvenile emperor penguins at Atka Bay on the sea ice edge ready for their first swim. In four years, they will return to breed, s...

Brain activity during sleep differs in young people with genetic risk of psychiatric disorders

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Photo by Lux Graves on Unsplash Young people living with a genetic alteration that increases the risk of psychiatric disorders have markedly...

Scientists Determined Content of Harmful Substances in Ekaterinburg Mud

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In Ekaterinburg, scientists made more than 60 mud samples. Photo credit: Ilya Safarov Scientists at Ural Federal University and the Institut...

Archaeology and ecology combined sketch a fuller picture of past human-nature relationships

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Hunting of a deer. Wall painting, 6th millennium BC. Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara.  Image source: Wikimedia Commons For decades...

3D imaging contributes to a better understanding of early stages of Alzheimer's disease

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Three-dimensional image of noradrenergic nerve cells in the envelope of locus coeruleus. Photo credit: Gilvesy et al. With the help of a new...