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Get the health information and medications you need every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. good morning. Here we introduce unexpected combinations of proper nouns. Harry Styles and Haruki Marukami from Runner’s World. It’s a pretty existential conversation, partially shared in Style Profile. “I’ve always wondered, what is creativity?” asked Marukami. “I’ve been writing books and creating things for about 45 years, but I still don’t know what creativity is.” Autism researchers form new group and reprimand Kennedy A group of autism researchers and advocates has established a new independent advisory group with a name very…

A new study suggests that our hearts slow down when we make visual mistakes, providing evidence that our bodies respond to perceptual mistakes even before we realize we’ve made them. Published in biological psychologyresearch shows that conscious perception emerges from a constant dialogue between the brain and the body. Historically, cognitive neuroscience has focused on the brain to understand how we perceive the world. However, the brain is constantly communicating with the peripheral nervous system, the neural network that connects the brain and spinal cord to the rest of the body. Scientists wanted to understand how this body-brain connection affects…

Elder care company Papa is rolling out a new program that leverages existing companion care services to help improve the quality of health plans. The company’s vetted network of Pals, called Papa Plus, will be able to provide important services needed by insurance companies in addition to working to address the social needs of its members. These tasks may include helping members schedule and accompany members to major health visits, providing post-discharge support, or helping individuals utilize telehealth visits. This creates a direct engagement channel for some of the most vulnerable and hardest-to-reach patients, Papa said in the announcement. This…

Japanese macaques, better known as snow monkeys, are famous for sitting in steaming hot springs when the temperature drops. It’s clear that warm water can help you cope with the winter cold, but researchers at Kyoto University have discovered that these baths do more than just keep you warm. “Hot spring bathing is one of the most unusual behaviors seen in non-human primates,” said lead author Abdullah Langen. His team wondered if regular soaking in hot springs might also affect the parasites and microorganisms that live on and inside the monkeys. Research on parasites and intestinal microbiota To find out,…

President Donald Trump already faced the difficult task of convincing American voters that he had a plan to protect Americans from the power costs of the data center boom. Then the bombs started falling. Market turmoil following President Trump’s attack on Iran and concerns about escalating conflict are sure to overshadow Wednesday’s signing ceremony with seven major tech companies at the White House. Seven major tech companies have pledged to help pay for the growing demand for electricity driven by artificial intelligence. And if U.S. natural gas prices rise over the long term due to a surge in U.S. fuel…

Scientists at UCLA Health and the University of California, San Francisco have discovered why certain brain cells are better able than others to withstand build-up of tau, a toxic protein closely associated with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. The discovery points to biological differences that may help explain why some neurons survive longer and could open the door to new therapeutic strategies. Research published in journals cellrelied on advanced CRISPR-based genetic screening techniques in human neurons grown in the laboratory. The goal was to map the internal systems that control how tau accumulates within brain cells. When tau forms clumps,…

Rising sea levels due to climate change could threaten tens of millions more people than scientists and government planners originally thought, a new study says. This is already due to incorrect research assumptions about the height of coastal waters.The researchers studied hundreds of scientific studies and risk assessments and calculated that about 90% of them underestimated baseline coastal water levels by an average of 1 foot (30 centimeters). Wednesday’s study published in the journal Nature. It is a much more common problem in the Global South, the Pacific, and Southeast Asia, but less so in Europe and the Atlantic coast.Study…

Recent research published in communication biology The findings suggest that powerful hallucinogens can induce a unique brain state in which awake, moving animals exhibit brain waves typically associated with deep sleep. This unusual combination of sleep and wake characteristics provides evidence that psychedelic drugs may temporarily reorganize brain activity in a way that promotes learning and emotional recovery. The substance at the center of this study is 5-MeO-DMT, a fast-acting psychedelic compound known for inducing intense dream-like experiences and altered perceptions of reality. Scientists are currently studying this substance as a potential treatment for mental health conditions such as severe…

This article is published in partnership with The Guardian. As President Donald Trump attacks the legal foundations of America’s ability to regulate global warming emissions, climate change deniers are secretly celebrating the billionaires, Democrats, climate change activists, and even reporters they claim have “tacitly” acquiesced in the president’s aggressive pro-fossil fuel policies.”In the 26 years I’ve been focused on climate change, I’ve never seen anything like this. President Trump is trying to gut everything they’ve ever stood for,” longtime climate change denier Mark Molano said in January at the five-day World Prosperity Forum in Zurich, Switzerland, billed as a right-wing…

Alistair Berg/Getty Images Let’s start with the facts. Despite what you may have heard, you’re not eating a credit card’s worth of microplastics every week. At least not in the normal human eating process. But this popular claim has become alarming, especially as a series of studies have found microplastics accumulating everywhere, including in our highest mountains, deepest ocean trenches, and most remote polar regions, as well as in our heart tissue, liver, kidneys, breast milk, and bloodstream. If they were everywhere and scientific studies showed that they could cause some harm, that would be a big cause for concern,…