Psychedelic drugs reduce the amount of bottom-up brain activity flowing into a network associated with self-reflection. These altered brain signals occur consistently across humans and mice, offering a biological explanation for how these drugs reshape the mind. https://www.byteseu.com/2407110/ #Science
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The fact that all mammals on this planet, including ourselves, have their origin in a tiny primate or pre-primate that weighed less than 20 grams, makes me very humble.
It lived during the early Paleocene, ~66 Million years ago, probably on trees. It had appeared pretty "soon" after the big bang. This alone is a miracle.
#life #purgatorius #OriginOfLife #mammals #primates #science #paleontology
https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/1117137
What I’ve been reading (and watching) this week ending 22 March 2026 https://jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-been-reading-and-watching-this-week-ending-22-march-2026-ae4b1344e6d3 #science #leadership #management #AI
Baby girls’ greater interest in faces offers clue to nature v nurture debate | Science https://www.byteseu.com/2384997/ #Science
https://www.europesays.com/?p=3264025 GLB Technology (Yibin) Monthly Brake Assembly Shipments Exceed 10,000 Sets #america #ChinaAutoNews #Gasgoo #icv #science #technology #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USA
Do Pimple Patches Actually Work? Here’s What The Science Says https://www.byteseu.com/2384696/ #Science
Curiosity: 4844th day of the mission
Image captured 6 hours ago.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
#Mars #Curiosity #rover #Sol4844 #CuriosityRover #space #science
Research shows that people with low implicit self-worth, or a large mismatch between their conscious and unconscious self-esteem, are quicker to detect subtle facial expressions of anger and disgust. https://www.byteseu.com/2385346/ #Science
Scientists Extracted DNA From Medieval Parchment—and Found a Hidden Disease https://www.byteseu.com/2385956/ #Archaeology #MedievalHistory #Science
🏆️Jean Dalibard is a researcher and a professor of physics at the Collège de France in Paris. He won the first edition of the Alessandro Volta Prize.
⚛️ His inventions had a significant impact in the field of #laser cooling and cold #atomic #gases. And they are still in use today!
In an interview he shares his passion for #physics and tells about decisive encounters.
👉 https://tinyurl.com/hdn7hwvb
#physik #science #europe #awards #AlessandroVolta
@cnrs @EDPSciences
https://www.europesays.com/3264603/ Economic specialization and heterogeneous temperature-economy relationships suggest net costs of climate change in Europe #BusinessAndIndustry #ClimateChangeImpacts #Economy #EconomyOfEU #EconomyOfTheEU #EnvironmentalEconomics #EUEconomy #Europe #HumanitiesAndSocialSciences #multidisciplinary #science
Tiny shrimp-like creatures are moving 110 pounds of sand per meter of California beach every day, scientists say they may be reshaping the coast https://www.byteseu.com/2386013/ #EverythingScience #Science
DPS Honors Crime Laboratory During National Forensic Science Week – The Gilmer Mirror https://www.byteseu.com/?p=2386624 #Science
https://www.europesays.com/3264982/ Iron Age Hoard Found in Austria Could Have Armed 500 Warriors #AnatolianArchaeology #ArchaeologyNews #austria #ClassicalArchaeology #Culture #EgyptArchaeology #history #MesopotamiaArchaeology #mythology #Nachrichten #Österreich #science #travel
One Lifelong Exercise Habit Is Linked to Healthier Signs of Aging After 55: Healthy adults over 55 who had exercised regularly for 30 years had higher vitality capacity than inactive peers. Their average blood-oxygen saturation of 96.8%, compared with 94.8% in the inactive group. https://www.byteseu.com/2386683/ #Science
Monk seals sometimes get eels stuck up their nose. We still don’t know why
I know for a fact, now, that there is no such thing as a photon: https://michelson-morley.crudfactory.com/#_there_is_no_such_thing_as_a_photon
Take it or leave it as you wish. I do not try to force belief on anyone, and I am not a professor who controls your grade or whether you get granted a PhD.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been transforming a government that long championed vaccines into one that questions their safety.
This is what could happen over the next 25 years if shots are unavailable even to the people who want them.
http://projects.propublica.org/childhood-vaccines-deaths-modeling/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #RFKJr #Health #PublicHealth #Children #Vaccines #Data #Science #Research #Model
PRESS RELEASE: https://www.seti.org/news/seti-institute-names-lori-marino-as-2026-drake-award-recipient/
The SETI Institute announced today that Dr. Lori Marino will receive the 2026 Drake Award, continuing its tradition of celebrating contributions to the search for life and intelligence beyond Earth. Marino is recognized for advancing our understanding of intelligence—on Earth and beyond—and for applying that knowledge to foster meaningful scientific, ethical, and social change.
What I’ve been reading (and watching) week ending 9 August https://jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-been-reading-and-watching-week-ending-9-august-1ab6b2dde859 #AI #DistributedSystems #science #engineering #SoftwareEngineering #cybersecurity #ProductManagement
‘"Project Hail Mary" demonstrates how intellectual humility can be a guiding force for scientists and astronauts.
From @TheConversationUS: An anthropologist explores the hit film.
Chinese scientists are turning plants into glowing streetlights with firefly genes, aiming to create bio-cities powered by water and nutrients instead of electricity
Our crew at the observatory has CAPTURED THE ORION SPACECRAFT... despite the weather in #Toronto #canada ... the low position of #ArtemisII in the sky and having had to take the science ccd off for repairs.
Enjoy everyone, now you too can wave at the pixel of #jeremyhansen ! Video is up on the @AllanICarswellObservatory YouTubechannel! https://www.youtube.com/live/dT_ykVY1VaI?si=wDd_GQHUpdYP0-qy
#space #orion #Artemis2 #moonmission #science #telescopes #yorkuniversity #moon #observatory #Astrodon #astronomy
☀️ 🌙 Europe’s Eclipses Trilogy from 2026 to 2028: A three‑year sequence of spectacular solar events!
See how to follow the first eclipse taking place on 12th August 2026: 👉 https://tinyurl.com/4m8umydv
THE ANIMALS WERE ALWAYS TALKING,
WE JUST COULDN'T HEAR THEM 💎
Here is some genuinely good news.
Scientists are using AI to find patterns in animal communication that humans have struggled to detect for a very long time.
Elephants appear to use individually specific calls, rather like names.
AI is revealing extraordinary structure in sperm whale clicks.
Researchers are developing systems that can analyse dolphin vocalisations and even generate dolphin-like sounds in return.
No, we have not yet built Google Translate for dolphins. Nobody is discussing fish with a porpoise over breakfast.
But something remarkable is beginning.
For most of human history, we assumed animals had relatively little to say because we couldn't understand what they were saying.
That assumption is becoming harder to maintain.
Perhaps the great breakthrough here will not be teaching animals to speak to us.
Perhaps it will be discovering that they have been communicating richly with one another all along, while we stood nearby, unable to hear them.
And I rather love the irony.
We built artificial intelligence partly to make machines think and talk more like us. But AI may end up helping humans become less deaf to everything that isn't us.
That seems like progress to me.
@3goodthings @DigitalCoup @meditation @economics_that_works @startrek
The video gets a little excited in places, but the underlying science is extraordinary:
https://youtu.be/jh0UFCyqNEQ?si=NbuXMSAdyHYYeYqu
#AI #Animals #Science #GoodNews #Nature #Technology #Scientists #video #artificial #intelligence