Connect or reject: Extensive rewiring builds binocular vision in the brain
A first-of-its-kind study in mice shows neurons add and shed synapses at a frenzied pace during development to integrate visual signals from the two eyes.
July 15, 2025 • ~7 min
Why many Americans still think Darwin was wrong, yet the British don’t
Fundamentalists don’t necessarily examine evolution and then reject it; they tend to start with the conclusion that it must be false and work backwards.
July 15, 2025 • ~8 min
Why the Sycamore Gap tree provoked such strong emotional reactions – a psychologist explains
The fall of the Sycamore Gap tree was more than a loss of natural beauty. It was, for many, a symbolic attack on permanence, on meaning, and on shared identity.
July 15, 2025 • ~8 min
Many Texas communities are dangerously unprepared for floods − lack of funding plays a big role
There are ways the state could help these communities, as a team of disaster planning specialists explains.
July 15, 2025 • ~9 min
Weird space weather seems to have influenced human behavior on Earth 41,000 years ago – our unusual scientific collaboration explores how
Two geophysicists and an archaeologist teamed up to connect space weather 41,000 years ago to human behaviors that might have been in response – and show the value in cross-discipline teamwork.
July 15, 2025 • ~8 min
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