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Scientists Breed Custom Mushrooms for Green Materials

Categories Life & Non-humans, Technology

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Blood Test Could Spot Teen Depression Before Crisis Hits

Categories Brain & Behavior

a. The mammalian central auditory pathway includes the cochlea, brainstem, thalamus, and auditory cortex. b. The frequency-following response (FFR), mainly generated in the brainstem, reflects all stimulus frequencies and additional ones not present in the input. The Neural Resonance Theory (NRT) model—incorporating the cochlea, cochlear nucleus, and inferior colliculus—predicts these extra frequencies. c. An oscillatory neural network model simulates dynamic pitch interactions and can infer implied harmonies in melodies, such as in Bach’s Violin Partita No. 3. Stable harmonic tones (E, G#, B) persist, while others fade quickly. d. NRT also predicts tonal stability ratings. In both Western (C major) and North Indian (raga Yaman) music, NRT predictions (blue) closely match human ratings (grey). For raga Yaman, NRT outperforms duration-based models (purple).

Our Brains Don’t Just Hear Music—They May Physically Become It

Categories Brain & Behavior

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Lab-Grown Lewy Bodies Show How Inflammation May Trigger Parkinson’s in Anyone

Categories Brain & Behavior

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Recreating a hallmark of Parkinson’s disease in human neurons

Categories Brain & Behavior, Health

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AI Outperforms Human Instructors in Neurosurgical Training Study

Categories Brain & Behavior, Technology

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Mosquito Bite Timing May Influence Malaria Severity

Categories Health, Life & Non-humans

By playing Borderlands Science, a mini-game within the looter-shooter video game Borderlands 3, 4.5 million gamers have helped trace the evolutionary relationships of more than a million different kinds of bacteria that live in the human gut.

Gamers Help Scientists Make Major Breakthrough in Understanding the Human Gut

Categories Health, Technology

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Researchers propose a new model for classifying Parkinson’s

Categories Brain & Behavior, Health

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More than a meteorite: The new clues about the demise of dinosaurs

Categories Life & Non-humans

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Velvet Worm slime could inspire sustainable synthetic materials

Categories Life & Non-humans, Physics & Mathematics

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Killer whales’ diet more important than location for pollutant exposure

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Life & Non-humans

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A sustainable alternative to air conditioning

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Technology

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