How the Brain 'Constructs' the Outside World

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June 01, 2022

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Neuroscience How the Brain 'Constructs' the Outside World Neural activity probes your physical surroundings to select just the information needed to survive and flourish By György Buzsáki

Climate Change Record Methane Spike Boosts Heat Trapped by Greenhouse Gases NOAA's Annual Greenhouse Gas Index finds that greenhouse gases trapped nearly 50 percent more heat last year than they did in 1990 By John Fialka,E&E News

Mental Health Science Shows How to Protect Kids' Mental Health, but It's Being Ignored Yes, the COVID pandemic has made the problem worse. But our teens were in trouble long before that By Mitch Prinstein,Kathleen A. Ethier

Medicine An IVF Embryo Test Aims to Prevent Miscarriages: Is It Worth It? The test could help ensure a successful pregnancy but still leaves hopeful parents with some difficult decisions By Laura Hercher

Endangered Species How Countries 'Import' and 'Export' Extinction Risk around the World A recent study puts a number to how much our consumption imperils threatened species By Susan Cosier

Vaccines 'Where Are Vaccines for Little Kids?' and the Latest on Long COVID Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American's senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between. You can listen to all past episodes here.  By Josh Fischman,Tanya Lewis,Tulika Bose | 08:03

Discrimination Is Breaking People's Hearts Heart attacks, strokes and other consequences of cardiovascular disease are particularly dangerous for people who face inequity

Animals Hummingbirds Choose How Much to Chill Down The birds can dramatically drop temperatures at night to save energy or linger in an intermediate state By Carolyn Wilke

Cognition Tired Adults May Learn Language like Children Do Lowered conscious reasoning can aid sound-pattern recognition By Matthew Hutson

Public Health The Urgent Need to Improve Health Equity A special package highlights problems and solutions By Lauren Gravitz

Diversity Sexuality, Gender and Justice This Pride Month discover the science supporting equality and antidiscrimination

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