This Year's Most Thought-Provoking Brain Discoveries

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December 16, 2022

Consciousness This Year's Most Thought-Provoking Brain Discoveries Neural circuits that label experiences as "good" or "bad" and the emotional meaninglessness of facial expressions are some standouts among 2022's mind and brain breakthroughs By Gary Stix

Animals Why Your Dog Might Think You're a Bonehead The verdict is in: female dogs actively evaluate human competence. By Karen Hopkin | 03:44

Ecology How the Moon Devastated a Mangrove Forest In 2015 the moon's wobble and an El Niño teamed up to kill off tens of millions of Australian mangroves By Joanna Thompson

Sponsor Content Provided by Battelle Climate Resilience: Impactful Innovation is Needed Today What's most needed right now are outcome-driven, scientific approaches committed to delivering breakthrough technologies and capabilities—ones that leverage the fundamental knowledge of the past and apply it in new mission-driven methods that reach beyond what is possible today.

Public Health Fauci Responds to Musk's Twitter Attack and Rates World's COVID Response Public health leader Anthony Fauci advises early-career researchers "not to be deterred" by vitriol By Max Kozlov,Nature magazine

Climate Change Cleaner Jet Fuel Is Poised for Takeoff Sustainable aviation fuel is poised for exponential growth thanks to increased investment and policy support, according to industry officials By Andres Picon,E&E News

Physiology New Human Metabolism Research Upends Conventional Wisdom about How We Burn Calories Metabolism studies reveal surprising insights into how we burn calories—and how cooperative food production helped Homo sapiens flourish By Herman Pontzer

Animals 6 Weird and Wild Animal Behaviors Revealed in 2022 Octopus outbursts, spiders evading sexual cannibalism and a human-cockatoo arms race—here are strange animal behaviors we learned about in 2022 By Andrea Thompson

Ecology Global Population Growth Is Slowing Down. Here's One Reason Why In 2022 the world's population hit the eight-billion mark. But such milestones could top out by the end of the century By Katie Peek

FROM THE STORE Special Editions Volume 31, Issue 1s

FROM THE ARCHIVE How Do I Know I'm Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe? The solipsism problem, also called the problem of other minds, lurks at the heart of science, philosophy, religion, the arts and the human condition By John Horgan | September 2020

WHAT WE'RE READING COVID Vaccine Refusers Have 72 Percent Higher Risk of a Serious Traffic Crash, Study Shows "We theorized that individual adults who tend to resist public health recommendations might also neglect basic road safety guidelines," the authors stated. By Aaron Gordon | Vice | Dec. 13, 2022

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