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New research has scientists rethinking how the brain tells time
5+ hour, 52+ min ago (789+ words) New study reveals three distinct stages of visual time perception in the cortex, from sensory encoding to subjective experience. (CREDIT: AI-generated image / The Brighter Side of News) A tennis return can look almost automatic. The ball comes off the racket,…...
How AI is revolutionizing time of death estimations
8+ hour, 52+ min ago (755+ words) AI models trained on blood metabolites can estimate time since death with a precision of about one day, aiding forensic investigations. (CREDIT: AI-generated image / The Brighter Side of News) "Death is a strong biological signal," says Rasmus Magnusson, postdoctoral fellow…...
Gravitational waves may be responsible for dark matter in the universe
12+ hour, 52+ min ago (679+ words) Study suggests ancient gravitational waves may have helped create dark matter in the early universe. (CREDIT: AI-generated image / The Brighter Side of News) This hypothesis is the product of collaboration between Professor Joachim Kopp from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and…...
Bite mechanics of ancient marine predators yields surprising results
14+ hour, 52+ min ago (873+ words) Engineering simulations of 16 Cretaceous marine reptile jaws show mosasaurs and polycotylid plesiosaurs had fundamentally different biting capabilities that allowed them to coexist. (CREDIT: Universit" de Li'ge / F. Della Giustina) The Western Interior Seaway, which existed roughly 80 million years ago, split North…...
Physicists use pulses of light in 37 dimensions to prove quantum paradox
17+ hour, 8+ min ago (629+ words) Danish physicists built the most compact GHZ-type quantum paradox possible, proving three measurement contexts are the minimum and demonstrating it in 37 dimensions with light. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) A puzzle with only three moves may sound simple. In quantum physics, it can…...
Gold’s origins lie beneath the ocean deep inside the Earth's mantle
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (17+ words) Gold's origins lie beneath the ocean deep inside the Earth's mantle'The Brighter Side of News...
New AI blood test can help detect several brain diseases at once
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (671+ words) Two of the researchers behind the AI model, Jacob Vogel and Lijun An, show the results of their study. (CREDIT: Emma Nyberg) Memory loss can point in more than one direction. Writing in Nature Medicine, researchers described an AI system…...
Scientists find a new way to detect scientific breakthroughs
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (935+ words) New research maps 55 million papers and patents to find the studies that truly changed science. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) Some scientific breakthroughs arrive with a bang. Others arrive twice. That odd pattern sits at the center of a new study from researchers…...
Large-scale waves are forming deep inside our Sun
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (1004+ words) New research reveals magnetic waves deep inside the Sun, offering a way to study hidden solar processes. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) They move through the Sun like slow, immense swells, far below anything telescopes can see. For years, those depths have remained…...
New discovery reinvents how lightning is formed
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (690+ words) Penn State scientists demonstrate that lightning-like electrical discharges can occur inside solid materials, not just in storm clouds. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) In a small lab at Penn State University, lightning may be happening on a scale smaller than a deck of…...