What dreams are made of: Scientists mine sleep’s mysteries
In the late 1800s scientists began to interrogate the neurological basis of dreams. That changed in Sigmund Freud’s time but ...
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Dosage Dilemma: Unpacking Meditation App Science
Podcast: In this episode, host Özge Gürcanlı Fischer Baum teams up with Simon Goldberg from the University of Wisconsin to ...
Plant extract inspires new chemistry and new early lead against triple-negative breast cancer
Chemists at Emory University have invented a reaction to streamline the total synthesis of a compound, phaeocaulisin A, ...
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Investigators are human too: outcome bias and perceptions of individual culpability in patient safety incident investigations
Background Healthcare patient safety investigations inappropriately focus on individual culpability and the target of ...
Can skincare cure anxiety? Are neurocosmetics the next big thing or another grift to avoid?
As someone with an impressive skincare cabinet of peptide-boosting products and various bottles labelled “happy oil” and ...
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Personal values and cancer treatment refusal
Our hypothesis, generated from interviews with patients and oncologists ... Of the eight oncologists in the department, three were selected by drawing lots. These three oncologists were male, age ...
Address science misinformation not by repeating the facts, but by building conversation and community
For science to have a meaningful impact on a group of people, new information needs to spread between trusted members of that ...
Scientists analyze branch patterns in trees and art, from da Vinci to Mondrian
The math that describes the branching pattern of trees in nature also holds for trees depicted in art—and may even underlie ...
The double helix of science and democracy
O n a freezing night in January, several hundred people came to Boston’s Museum of Science for a town hall-style discussion ...
Art and science illuminate the same subtle proportions in tree branches
The scale invariance in branch diameter dictates how much smaller a limb should be as it branches and how much investment a ...
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Computer Models of How Ideas Evolve and How We Became Creative
A million years ago, when everything we encountered was shaped solely by forces of nature, something that began as a spark of ...
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NIH scraps program to diversify the biomedical workforce, a longtime goal of science
Many scientists discussing the impact of the change on social media noted that the removal of the diversity grants from consideration means candidates who are not considered diverse or having ...