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…
Human Fingerprints on Climate Are Clearer Now
Five climate scientists reviewed three decades of fingerprint research and say rainfall, ocean, snow and stratosphere records now point the…
Severe Long Covid Goes With Different Mouth and Airway Bacteria
Oral rinses and sputum from 771 patients hospitalized with Covid-19 revealed lopsided microbial communities in the worst long Covid cases,…
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…
A Sun-Powered Bin Lid Breaks Down the Vinegar Smell of Garbage
A lithium-doped manganese dioxide insert kept acetic acid readings lower in a bin of rotting food for more than 40…
Ukraine Scientists Began Leaving Long Before the 2022 Invasion
Publication records from roughly 35,000 researchers trace Ukraine’s scholarly map year by year, and the trail shows Donetsk, Luhansk and…