The great silence: why haven’t we found any aliens yet?
Space | The Guardianby Adam Kirsch·11 Aug 2026
During a visit to the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1950, Enrico Fermi, one of the architects of the Manhattan Project, was having lunch with other physicists when the conversation turned to...
On the hunt for dark matter
MIT Newsby Sydney Campbell | Division of Graduate and Undergraduate Education·11 Aug 2026
Physicists across the globe are on a quest for a particle that makes up nearly 85 percent of all matter in the universe, yet no one has ever directly detected it.
AWS Trainium Frontier competition: Co-design models and kernels on purpose-built AI chips
Amazon Science Homepageby Louise Ping; John Gray; Emily Webber; Josh Longenecker·10 Aug 2026
Modern LLM architectures have co-evolved within a single hardware family. The shapes of our attention mechanisms, the structure of our multilayer perceptrons (MLPs), the choice of numerical...
Regenerative Astrocytes Repair Brain Damage - Neuroscience News
Neuroscience Newsby Neuroscience News·10 Aug 2026
Summary: Researchers discovered a previously unknown mechanism through which the adult mammalian brain repairs itself following focal injuries or autoimmune damage.
High-orbit satellites could light the way for travel to the moon
MIT Newsby Haley Wahl | MIT Lincoln Laboratory·10 Aug 2026
On Earth, the processes behind navigation are made nearly invisible by global positioning satellites (GPS).
Eye Tracking Reveals Where Human Reading and AI Processing Diverge - Neuroscience News
Neuroscience Newsby Neuroscience News·10 Aug 2026
Summary: A new study evaluated whether large language models (LLMs) can accurately account for human reading dynamics.
Dog Brains Differentiate Human Anger, Fear, and Sadness - Neuroscience News
Neuroscience Newsby Neuroscience News·10 Aug 2026
Summary: A new study demonstrated that dogs possess specialized neural networks for processing human facial expressions.
The simple way to make your marketing claims 42.9% more believable
Hubspotby Phill Agnew·10 Aug 2026
A few weeks back, I stumbled across a Reddit post that talked about the first measurement ever taken of Mount Everest.
The first-ever Fat Marmot Week is almost here. See the contenders
Good Good Goodby Meghan Cook·10 Aug 2026
Daniel Blumstein, a UCLA ecology and evolutionary biology professor, has been running the marmot research project at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Colorado for 25 years — and he has...
Frequent cannabis users wake up with their “stress hormone” already elevated
Neuroscience News -- ScienceDaily·9 Aug 2026
Frequent cannabis users wake up with their “stress hormone” already elevated - Date: - August 9, 2026 - Source: - Oregon State University - Summary: - Frequent cannabis users may wake up with...
Scientists say just 7 days of meditation can rewire your brain
Neuroscience News -- ScienceDaily·9 Aug 2026
Scientists say just 7 days of meditation can rewire your brain Just seven days of intensive meditation and mind-body practices produced measurable changes in participants’ brains, blood chemistry...
Stress can scramble your brain’s internal GPS, MRI study finds
Neuroscience News -- ScienceDaily·9 Aug 2026
Stress can scramble your brain’s internal GPS, MRI study finds - Date: - August 8, 2026 - Source: - Ruhr-University Bochum - Summary: - Stress may literally scramble the brain’s internal GPS.
Point Nemo Location Explained - What Is Nemo Point?
Atlas Obscuraby Frank Jacobs·8 Aug 2026
Q: What do sci-fi-pioneer Jules Verne, horror-writer H.P. Lovecraft, and the Russian space programme have in common?
Prefrontal Cortex Can Block Creative Problem-Solving - Neuroscience News
Neuroscience Newsby Neuroscience News·8 Aug 2026
Summary: Researchers discovered an unexpected role for the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), a region traditionally viewed as the executive driver of behavioral flexibility.
Teen cannabis use linked to slower memory and thinking growth
Neuroscience News -- ScienceDaily·8 Aug 2026
Teen cannabis use linked to slower memory and thinking growth - Date: - August 7, 2026 - Source: - University of California - San Diego - Summary: - Teens who start using cannabis may experience...
Colossal Biosciences Said It Cloned Red Wolves. Is It for Real? - Longreads
Longreadsby Brendan Fitzgerald·7 Aug 2026
Midway through Boyce Upholt’s mind-boggling dispatch, one of his sources sums up the central challenge of the Gulf Coast canid: “Why is there not just a simple explanation for what this thing is?”...
Exercise Shields Dopamine Neurons in Parkinson's - Neuroscience News
Neuroscience Newsby Neuroscience News·7 Aug 2026
Summary: Researchers synthesized evidence from 129 studies detailing how exercise-induced muscle signaling protects against Parkinson’s disease (PD) pathology.
Why Psychedelics Make Everything Feel Deeply Connected - Neuroscience News
Neuroscience Newsby Neuroscience News·7 Aug 2026
Summary: Researchers introduce “apical hypercontextualisation”—a bottom-up neurobiological mechanism explaining how psychedelics (psilocybin, LSD, DMT, mescaline) transform perception and...
Receptor Density Shapes Whole-Brain Network Dynamics - Neuroscience News
Neuroscience Newsby Neuroscience News·7 Aug 2026
Summary: Researchers developed a biologically grounded whole-brain computer model that bridges microscopic molecular chemistry with macroscopic neural activity.
Early Stress Heightens Adult Anxiety - Neuroscience News
Neuroscience Newsby Neuroscience News·7 Aug 2026
Summary: Researchers uncovered a fundamental epigenetic mechanism explaining how early-life adversity permanently alters the brain’s stress response networks.
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