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How IoT, AI, and mobile technologies are transforming manufacturing and R&D

Explore how the convergence of IoT, AI, and mobile technologies is driving digital innovation in manufacturing and R&D.

From LabVantage Solutions 16 Oct 2025

Sleep strengthens memories we choose to keep

This study examines how sleep influences memory, revealing the interplay between emotional cues and intentional recall in memory consolidation processes.

10 Oct 2025

Study links brain waves to misremembering of negative, irrelevant information

A good night's sleep has long been understood to help us consolidate new memories, but we don't understand how. Associations with negative feelings like fear or stress can improve recall, but intentionally trying to remember can also be effective. But these two mechanisms are very different - one involuntary, one deliberate.

7 Oct 2025

Study reveals how a key spinal circuit shapes the choreography of sex

For decades, it was thought that while the brain orchestrated male sexual behaviour – arousal, courtship, and copulation – the spinal cord merely executed the final act: ejaculation.

23 Sep 2025

Scientists discover IC–encoder neurons that shape visual perception

An illusion is when we see and perceive an object that doesn't match the sensory input that reaches our eyes. In the case of the image below, the sensory input is four Pac Man–like black figures.

15 Sep 2025

Synthetic Psychedelics: A Growing Public Health Concern

In this interview, Jonathan Ferguson discusses how knowledge of an emerging public health concern identified at Pittcon 2024 has evolved a year on.

From Pittcon 26 Aug 2025

How leadership drives inspection readiness from the top down

Discover how proactive leadership sets the tone for inspection readiness across all levels of an organization.

From DSI, a PLG Company 25 Aug 2025

The Proteoform Puzzle: Unlocking the Next Frontier

In the interview, Lloyd M. Smith discusses proteoforms, an area of research worthy of the next Human Genome Project.

From Pittcon 10 Jul 2025

Study uncovers how the brain amplifies pain from multiple sources

When pain strikes from multiple sources-such as a paper cut followed by contact with hot water-the experience can feel disproportionately intense. But is this agony merely additive, or does the brain integrate these signals in a way that amplifies suffering?

25 Jun 2025

Allen Institute introduces CellScapes to map cellular cooperation

The Allen Institute today announced the launch of CellScapes, a bold new research initiative aimed at revolutionizing how scientists understand and predict the behavior of human cells as they work together to build tissues and organs.

15 May 2025

Happiness can be shaped by external circumstances or internal states

What is the secret to happiness? Does happiness come from within, or is it shaped by external influences such as our jobs, health, relationships and material circumstances? A new study published in Nature Human Behaviour shows that happiness can come from either within or from external influences, from both, or neither – and which is true differs across people.

5 May 2025

A journey through science, software, and innovation: Insights from the Bruker software team

Follow Bruker's experts as they discuss the SCRUM approach to software development in the scientific industry.

From Bruker Daltonics 29 Apr 2025

Scientists cast new light on how fasting impacts the immune system

New research from The University of Manchester may reshape our understanding of what happens to the immune system when we fast.

7 Apr 2025

Study reveals how virtual body pain disrupts sense of ownership

A study from Hiroshima University found that when people were told to imagine their virtual bodies in pain, their brains resisted the illusion of ownership.

21 Mar 2025

Brain connectivity could predict adolescent substance use risk

Adolescent substance use is a significant predictor of future addiction and related disorders. Understanding neural mechanisms underlying substance use initiation and frequency during adolescence is critical for early prevention and intervention.

3 Mar 2025

With RFK Jr. in charge, supplement makers see chance to cash in

Last fall, before being named the senior U.S. health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the Trump administration would liberate Americans from the FDA's "aggressive suppression" of vitamins, dietary supplements, and other substances — ending the federal agency's "war on public health," as he put it.

25 Feb 2025