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Friday, October 16

Targeted stimulation of motor cortex ensembles drives learned movements - Nature

Optogenetic stimulation of motor-cortex neuron ensembles shows that precisely timed activity in the primary motor cortex can generate learned neural patterns and movements, demonstrating an active role in skilled motor control.

Wednesday, October 14

Stephen Clark

Things are finally looking up for NASA’s first missions to Venus in a generation - Ars Technica

This is great news for us. We're staffing up. We're accelerating."

Wednesday, October 14

Anna FitzGerald Guth

Stanford discovers way to save ghostly corals from the brink - SFGATE

This year's El Niño, which is driving up temperatures in the Pacific Ocean to near-record highs, poses a real threat to fragile corals.

Wednesday, October 14

Passant Rabie

Ocean Water Is Seeping Under the Doomsday Glacier—and Its Sea-Level Threat Just Doubled - Gizmodo

A new model suggests the Thwaites Glacier could contribute twice as much sea-level rise.

Wednesday, October 14

Archie Clarke

New dinosaur species, a T. rex cousin that "would have chased us," identified from fossil found 100 years ago - CBS News

A fossil discovered 100 years ago in the U.K. has been identified as a previously unknown cousin of the T. rex, and it "definitely would have chased us."

Wednesday, October 14

Mike Wall

Life after the moon: Artemis II's Christina Koch steps down from active astronaut duty - Space

All four Artemis II astronauts have now moved on to different roles.

Wednesday, October 14

Kyle Melnick

Injured kitten with a wheelchair made from toy cars gets adopted - The Washington Post

Shelter staff made Gelato a wheelchair crafted from Hot Wheels cars and wooden rulers.

Wednesday, October 14

Triplet of ‘Ghostly’ Galaxies Hints at What Dark Matter Is — and Isn’t - Quanta Magazine

A collision may have left these galaxies without dark matter. That spells trouble for alternative gravity theories.

Wednesday, October 14

Gayoung Lee

The Sun’s Death Could Tear Apart the Outer Solar System Much Sooner Than Thought - Gizmodo

“The Sun’s death is not an event the planets will quietly survive—it is the trigger for their orbital undoing.”

Wednesday, October 14

Brian Kahn

Earth’s Condition Is ‘Serious and Getting Worse’ as Climate Change Intensifies - WIRED

Seven of 16 planetary vital signs are in their most extreme state ever recorded, and El Niño is here to make matters even worse.

Wednesday, October 14

Phys.org

New evidence points to two feeding black holes just 175 parsecs apart lurking in the early universe - Phys.org

Wednesday, October 14

Andrew Zinin

Math under pressure may make a gamble's downside seem smaller - Phys.org

People who tackled arithmetic problems while stressed by a countdown clock, error buzzers and an observer nearby later gave potential losses less weight when deciding whether to accept a gamble. This finding from a new study suggests that pressure may change …

Wednesday, October 14