Dogs in the Bed Did Not Mean Less Sleep for Their Owners
Bedsharing did not measurably reduce sleep duration or efficiency in this small Ontario sample, while multiple-dog owners rated their sleep…
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 Misleading AI Summary Can Warp What You Remember
Georgetown and University of Washington researchers found that AI video summaries omitted the crash itself in 95% of test cases,…
DOGE Contract Cuts Tracked Which Counties Opposed Trump
A peer-reviewed analysis of nearly 700,000 federal contracts finds cancellations under Trump’s cost-cutting initiative fell hardest on counties that gave…
Dogs and Orangutans Hint Human Skills Rest on Older Learning
Dog brains favor consonants when tracking words in speech, as people’s do, and wild orangutan infants that watched and tried…
A Postal Cutback Could Sink Tens of Thousands of Midterm Ballots
Late ballot rejections nearly doubled in counties whose post offices lost their afternoon truck, a Brookings analysis of three states’…
Model Suggests Steady Vision Depends on Holding Chaos in Check
A three-variable simulation of the primary visual cortex settled from chaotic activity into a steady rhythm once two feedback loops…
Giant Stars Starved of Metals Seem to Run Out of Puff
Ultraviolet spectra of 29 massive O-type stars in six nearby dwarf galaxies show winds weakening as metals thin out, and…