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Hippocampal dentate gyrus in HSHA mice, showing significant activation of astrocytes (GFAP: white) and oxidative stress (8OHdG: green) surrounding brain capillaries (laminin-a4: reddish). Nuclei are stained with DAPI (blue). Credit: John Charles Lewis Mammo, Lam V et al., 2021, PLOS Biology. Credit: John Charles Louis Mamo, Lam V et al., 2021, PLOS Biology

Protein from the liver may cause Alzheimer's disease in the brain

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Summary: Amyloid-beta proteins formed in the liver are carried in the bloodstream by lipoproteins to the brain. This causes neurodegradation, brain degeneration and inflammation, common features of Alzheimer's disease.
(The graphic illustration describes the research findings and shows that stories affect our heart rate and bind us together. The researchers found that attention to narratives may synchronize heart rate fluctuations between different individuals. Cardiac synchronization predicts memory and cannot be explained by breathing) Credit: Perez and Madsen et al./Cell Reports

Heart rate synchronization when listening to stories together

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Heart rate synchronization occurs, even when subjects are listening to a story alone, when they are attentive to certain points in the story
wakefulness and sleep cycle. Illustration: depositphotos.com

You should sleep before an exam: lack of sleep sabotages the storage of new memories in the hippocampus

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Mice that suffered from a lack of sleep increased the activity of inhibitory neurons in the hippocampus, thereby disrupting the processing and storage of new memories.
coffee mug. Illustration: shutterstock

Drink your coffee after breakfast, not before...

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Matter ejected from a galaxy in the early universe. Image: D. BERRY/NSF/AUI/NRAO

So much gas escapes from this galaxy that 500 stars can be formed from it a year

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On the map, which you can see above, the focal point from which the lines come out is at the point where the earth is located. To his right the older stars (red) around the center of the galaxy and to his left the younger stars (blue) in the outer parts of the disk. As the researchers in the group say, the Milky Way galaxy has grown outward over time.

Not just the entire universe: the Milky Way galaxy is expanding outward over time

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A lungless salamander of the species (Desmognathus conanti) in the southern USA. Photo: shutterstock

The salamander presents: a terrestrial vertebrate that breathes without lungs

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A hooded cashier sticks a stick in his nose. Screenshot from a YouTube video of the Science site

Picking your nose in the name of science

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A silver ant hunted a beetle. From Wikipedia

We have something to learn from the silver ants in the coming summer days

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A bat in flight. Photography: JENS RYDELL

Bats focus ultrasonic beams using the width of their mouths

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A poor boy in Kathmandu, Nepal. Photo: shutterstock

Poverty may negatively affect brain size in children and adolescents

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Comet Lovejoy as imaged by the Deep Space Telescope Camera in Chile. Photo: MARTY MURPHY, NIKOLAY KUROPATKIN, HUAN LIN, AND BRIAN YANNY/FERMILAB

A deep space camera photographed Comet Lovejoy in all its glory

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Shanghai at night: light pollution increased by the haze. Photo: shutterstock

Light pollution at night - light can also be a pollutant

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Even nature reserves are not protected from light pollution
A lab mouse eats candy. Illustration: shutterstock

A forbidden drug for weight loss may be beneficial against liver disease and diabetes

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Ebola virus. Illustration: shutterstock

New insights into the Ebola virus, following the unprecedented outbreak in West Africa

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A laptop project for every student at a school in Thimphu, Bhutan. From Wikipedia

The thirty-three digital skills every teacher in the 21st century needs

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Comparing slightly genetically different brains. Illustration: Paul Thompson, UCLA

Genetic variants build a smarter brain

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Galaxies pretending to collide. Photo: Hubble Space Telescope Heritage Center

A cosmic collision is nothing but eye catching

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American brown bear. From Wikipedia

did you know Bears know how to count

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Imaging of the giant telescope E-ELT of the European Southern Observatory in Chile

The giant European telescope is on its way - the biggest eye in the sky

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Nano Vial. Image: Arizona State University.

DNA nano vial

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Jurassic spider fossil discovered in China

Largest fossil spider

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Honey - viscous but not flexible

Earplugs (or tires) in space

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Comb leg spider

Evil spiders are actually very good mothers

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eat well Women in the village of Hondo Tchiri in Burkina Faso prepare kilo millet, a high-fiber grain that is an ingredient in many dishes. Credit: Marco Schmidt

Western diet, intestinal diseases, allergies and other ailments

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Mountains on Titan. Photo: NASA's Cassini spacecraft

Titan's contractions give birth to mountains

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Do sea-floor bacteria make their own electric grids? Credit: Nils Risgaard-Petersen

Do sea-floor bacteria produce their own electric grids?

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The evolution of marsupials from South America to Australia. (MA Nilsson et al., PLoS Biology, 8 (July 2010

Pop-up genes chart the evolutionary tree of marsupials

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A pile of mongooses

Synchronized birthday to all mongooses

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Christmas Island crabs on the move

How do lazy crabs turn into marathon runners overnight?

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The world in the eyes of the wood bee. Photo: Helga Heilmann/BEE Group Wuerzburg

The wood bee sees 5 times faster than humans

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From enemy to lover? Transgenic Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes produce vaccine in their saliva.

It's not a mosquito, it's a flying vaccine

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Ocean-Bottom Bacteria

Do sea-floor bacteria make their own electric grids?

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pumpkin. Not just scary. From Wikipedia

Pumpkin is useful

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A four-legged robot learned to change its movement style to traverse a forest and jump over obstacles

A coral reef acts as a radiation filter

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Super absorbent pad…

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A four-legged robot learned to change its movement style to traverse a forest and jump over obstacles

Red mystery

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A four-legged robot learned to change its movement style to traverse a forest and jump over obstacles

Time to cut…

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A four-legged robot learned to change its movement style to traverse a forest and jump over obstacles

Neighbors

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A four-legged robot learned to change its movement style to traverse a forest and jump over obstacles

11 billion year old supernova

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A four-legged robot learned to change its movement style to traverse a forest and jump over obstacles

Rampant ferns

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A four-legged robot learned to change its movement style to traverse a forest and jump over obstacles

Wrong order

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A four-legged robot learned to change its movement style to traverse a forest and jump over obstacles

Scientists have identified "good" fat in adult humans

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A four-legged robot learned to change its movement style to traverse a forest and jump over obstacles

Duet battle

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A four-legged robot learned to change its movement style to traverse a forest and jump over obstacles

Galactic conflict

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A four-legged robot learned to change its movement style to traverse a forest and jump over obstacles

giant python

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A four-legged robot learned to change its movement style to traverse a forest and jump over obstacles

Chop sticks for monkeys

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A four-legged robot learned to change its movement style to traverse a forest and jump over obstacles

Chameleons that live less than a year

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A four-legged robot learned to change its movement style to traverse a forest and jump over obstacles

Drink more because of global warming and avoid kidney stones

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A four-legged robot learned to change its movement style to traverse a forest and jump over obstacles

coral reefs. It could be worse…

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