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Neuroscience

Your brain wires itself to match your native language

MRI scans of nearly 100 native speakers of either German or Arabic revealed differences in how the language circuits of their brains are connected.

Health & Medicine

The science behind deep brain stimulation for depression

The third part of the series explores the promising brain areas to target for deep brain stimulation for depression.

Health & Medicine

Trained dogs sniff out COVID-19 as well as lab tests do

Dogs can be trained to sniff out COVID-19 cases. They’re overall as reliable as PCR tests and even better at IDing asymptomatic cases, a study suggests.

Animals

Dog breed is a surprisingly poor predictor of individual behavior

Despite the popular conviction that dog breeds are associated with specific traits, breed accounts for only 9 percent of behavioral differences.

Physics

Is this the superconductor of scientists’ dreams? A new claim faces scrutiny

It’s big, if true: transmitting electricity with no resistance at room temperature and moderate pressure. But controversy dogs the team making the claim.

Astronomy

In a first, JWST detected starlight from distant galaxies with quasars

Until JWST’s sharp infrared eyes came along, it wasn’t possible to see the galaxies hosting extremely bright supermassive black holes called quasars.

Animals

How a new Lyme vaccine for mice may protect people

A vaccine, distributed as pellets, can neutralize Lyme-causing bacteria in wildlife. Scientists hope it will reduce Lyme exposure for people and pets.

Health & Medicine

There’s a stigma around brain implants and other depression treatments

The fifth article in the series asks why people are so uncomfortable with changing the brain.

Materials Science

Want a ‘Shrinky Dinks’ approach to nano-sized devices? Try hydrogels

Patterning hydrogels with a laser and then shrinking them down with chemicals offers a way to make nanoscopic structures out of many materials.

Humans

Lauren Schroeder looks beyond natural selection to rethink human evolution

Paleoanthropologists studying the fossil record have long focused on natural selection, but other processes play a big role too.

Animals

Here are 3 people-animal collaborations besides dolphins and Brazilians

Dolphins working with people to catch fish recently made a big splash. But humans and other animals have cooperated throughout history.