Children’s Past-Life Claims Show Shorter Gaps After Sudden Deaths
A University of Virginia archive of 1,678 reported cases found the gap between a death and a child’s birth ran…
Stress Wakes a Quiet Arthritic Joint Through Brown Fat
Arthritic mice in remission flared after three days of confinement, and blocking interleukin-6 signaling or neutrophil recruitment calmed the swelling,…
Popular Song Lyrics Use Fewer Positive and Social Words Over Time
Word counts across 38,467 songs by 230 popular artists show positive emotion and social words mostly sliding within careers and…
What is SRSF1 (or Serine/Arginine-Rich Splicing Factor 1)?
SRSF1 is a protein that helps cells edit RNA before using it to make proteins. Its best-known job is RNA…
A Character’s Private Regret Nudges Readers Toward Forgiveness
Across three online experiments with 1,563 people, reading a careless repairman’s private thoughts rather than his spoken apology raised forgiveness…
No Single Safeguard Stops AI-Aided Bioweapons, Analysts Argue
A lone attacker may be blocked by cutting off information and materials, but a state program mostly can’t be and…
How You Define a Street Vendor May Decide the Policy You Get
A scoping review of 327 studies on food vendors in 64 countries found definitions split by licensing, location and stall…
A Teen With Exceptional Life Recall Has Memories Pop Up Unasked
In one 16-year-old with highly superior autobiographical memory, unbidden memories of his past made up 87% of his stray thoughts…
Chatbots Lean Toward the Status Quo
Six chatbots backed an existing policy about 70% of the time but the same trade-off framed as new only about…
How Lupus Skin Reacts Differently to Sunlight
Single-cell sequencing of biopsies from eight people with lupus and seven healthy volunteers pointed to skin cells and a recruited…
In Old Mice, Zombie Cells Dull the Immune Cells That Clear Them
Senescent fibroblasts from aged mice failed to ramp up protein recycling, and their secretions dulled the macrophages that clear them.…
A Cannabis-Like Drug Turned Up Threat Avoidance in Mice
Mice given a synthetic cannabinoid froze more and avoided a predator odor analog, and blocking output from fear-region somatostatin neurons…