NASA Mars mission discovers key to teamwork
PhysOrg reports on a discovery from NASA researchers looking not at astronomy nor engineering, but on key factors that let teams communicate with a gap […]
psychology
Cockroaches bond by eating each other’s wings.
NPR shares romance among the insects with research that shows at least one species of cockroach, Salganea taiwanensis, forms long-term pair-bonds. And, poetically, these cockroach […]
SONG: Dirt Poor
SONG: “Dirt Poor”. (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Dirty emotions: Microbes in soil may affect hormones tied to love, mental health and […]
Science Art: Les 7 Instances selon Charles Baudouin, by CBCB
These are the seven elements of a psyche, a person’s sense of self, as mapped out by Charles Baudouin, a French contemporary of Freud, Jung, […]
Psychedelics can open the mind’s eye, kind of literally.
IFL Science has some new findings about people with aphantasia — that is, people who don’t have an inner movie-screen playing thoughts as images. There […]
Dirty love: Soil steering our emotions
PhysOrg reports on Flinders University researchers who have found that soil microbes can affect our gut biota, which in turn can influence our emotional lives, […]
SONG: Jet Lagged
SONG: “Jet Lagged”. (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Depression linked to ‘internal jet lag’, study finds,” University of Sydney, 16 July 2025, […]
The covid pandemic rewired teens’ brains
I mean, parents already kinda know this, but now Translational Psychiatry has studied (and is continuing to study) a group of teens from before the […]
Depression is a form of jet lag.
Or maybe vice versa. At any rate, the University of Sydney has published findings that demonstrate depression is physiologically really close to jet lag, and […]
Wild cockatoos use public water fountains
Smithsonian shares some unusual observations from Australia, where wild cockatoos have learned to operate the controls of water fountains in public parks to get a […]
SONG: Bed Chem (a penitential Sabrina Carpenter cover)
SONG: “Bed Chem” (a penitential Sabrina Carpenter cover). (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This wasn’t based on any scientific research. It’s a cover of […]
Growing worry over “ChatGPT-induced psychosis”
Futurism reports on anecdotal evidence of ChatGPT conversing with people in a human-like way and … drawing them further and further into an authoritative-sounding, real-feeling […]
AI to translate cat faces.
Nature: Scientific Reports wants you to know why your cat is making faces at you. They’ve published a study that uses artificial intelligence to decipher […]
SONG: Two Wolves Inside Us
SONG: “Two Wolves Inside Us” . (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on Ecology, 14 Nov 2024, “Canids as pollinators? Nectar foraging by Ethiopian […]
Personalities count… for wolves.
Sentient Science reports on an unexpected flaw that might interfere with human attempts to reintroduce wolves into the wilds of Colorado. The problem isn’t the […]