A Parent’s Smartphone Time May Be Linked to Slower Vocabulary Growth in Children
A Norwegian study of 747 children found that greater primary-parent smartphone use was associated with slower growth in receptive vocabulary…
What You Expect of Old Age Tends to Come True, a Study Finds
Adults who pictured a socially connected old age went on to see more of family and friends a decade later,…
A Blind Fish Rode Up a Farm Borewell and Turned Out to Be New
A pale, eyeless earthworm eel pumped from farmland borewells in Bihar is the first fish ever recorded from the aquifer…
Youth Protein TIMP2 Restores Cleanup Crews in the Aging Mouse Brain
Microglia, the brain’s cleanup cells, grow sluggish and inflamed with age in mice. A youth blood protein called TIMP2 keeps…
Who You Are Predicts Being Childfree More Than Where You Live
Across 20,118 adults in all 50 states, childfree prevalence ran from 22% in California to 9.4% in Louisiana, yet no…
Three Minutes of Sprints Alter Hundreds of Blood Proteins
A Cell Reports Medicine study found six all-out cycling sprints rapidly changed 714 plasma proteins. Here is what it found—and…
Unstructured Free Time Linked to Teen Offending Across 21 Countries
A study of 58,425 adolescents across 21 countries found that unstructured free time, especially unsupervised hours outside the home, was…
The Milky Way’s Star Birth Recipe Is Not Universal
Gaia observations of 110 Milky Way star clusters challenge the assumption that stars everywhere are born in the same proportions.…
Astrocytes Refill Brain Lesions by Moving New Nuclei Through Their Own Branches
In living mice, astrocytes around small brain lesions divided and sent new nuclei through their own branches to refill the…
Can Fusion Power Be Profitable? A New Test Says What It Would Take
An MIT plasma physicist and a financial economist have built a ten-parameter test, modeled on fusion’s famous Lawson criterion, that…
Why We Reread Is the Puzzle AI Still Can’t Quite Solve
Two studies published days apart test how well artificial intelligence explains human reading. Language models match the forward glide of…
Daydreaming Clears an AI’s False Memories, Even With Lopsided Data
A brain-inspired memory network fed heavily skewed patterns can look like it is recalling something when it is only agreeing…