Click Here to Read: Insects are conscious, claims major paper that could show us how our own thoughts began The study could mark a major step forward in arguments about how, why and when consciousness came about, and who gets to have it by Andrew Griffin on The Independent website on April 26, 2016.
Click Here to Read: Using a computational model, study explains how hippocampus influences synaptic connections in cortex on the Science Daily website on April 14, 2016.
Click Here to View: Nuclear Winter By Retro Report on The New York Times on April 3, 2016.
Click Here to Read: Related Article by Clyde Haberman in The New York Times on April 3, 2016.
Carl Sagan and other Cold War scientists once feared that a nuclear war could plunge the world into a deadly ice age. Three decades later, does this theory still resonate?
Click Here to Read and View: How the brain processes emotions: Neuroscientists identify circuits that could play a role in mental illnesses, including depressionby Anne Trafton on the MIT News website on March 31, 2016.
Two neurons of the basolateral amygdala. MIT neuroscientists have found that these neurons play a key role in separating information about positive and negative experiences.
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Click Here to Read: Scientists Warn of Perilous Climate Shift Within Decades, Not Centuries By JUustin Gillis in The New York Times on March 22, 2016.
A massive boulder on a coastal ridge in North Eleuthera, the Bahamas. A new research paper claims it was most likely moved there by powerful storms during the last warm period of Earth history, 120,000 years ago, and warns that such stormy conditions could recur because of human emissions of greenhouse gases.CreditCharles Ommanney/The Washington Post, via Getty Images
