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Musicians, Regardless of Innate Pitch Ability, Have More Connected Brains than Non-Musicians: Study

Increased subnetworks in absolute pitch musicians compared to non-musicians obtained in the whole-brain network-based statistic (NBS) analysis for resting-state functional connectivity (A) and diffusion weighted imaging (DWI)-based structural connectivity (B). Abbreviations: ACC - anterior cingulate cortex; AP - absolute pitch; aSMG - anterior supramarginal gyrus; aSTG - anterior superior temporal gyrus; cOp - central operculum; fOp - frontal operculum; FP - frontal pole; HG - Heschl’s gyrus; IFG, po - inferior frontal gyrus, pars opercularis; L - left; MTG - middle temporal gyrus; PCC - posterior cingulate cortex; postCG - postcentral gyrus; preCG - precentral gyrus; pSTG - superior temporal gyrus, posterior division; pOp - parietal operculum; PP - planum polare; PT - planum temporale; ptFG - posterior temporal fusiform gyrus; R - right; toFG - temporal occipital fusiform gyrus; TP - temporal pole. Image credit: Leipold et al., doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1985-20.2020.
Jan 26, 2021 by News Staff

A new study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, suggests that long-term musical training is associated with robust changes in large-scale brain networks. Increased subnetworks in absolute pitch musicians compared to non-musicians obtained in the whole-brain network-based statistic (NBS) analysis for resting-state functional connectivity (A) and diffusion weighted imaging (DWI)-based structural connectivity (B). Abbreviations: ACC – anterior...

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Blue jet: (a) the cloud-top altitude of the storm cell over the South Pacific on February 26, 2019, at 15:10 UTC, derived from the Japanese Himawari meteorological satellite data and from a radio sounding at Tarawa at a distance of approximately 700 km (435 miles); the green curve is the ISS orbit and the red marker its position at 15:10:05 UTC; the black curves identify the full field of view of the cameras projected to the Earth’s surface, and the white square is the cropped image, downloaded from the ISS and shown in (b); black markers are the lightning locations detected by the GLD360 network between 15:10:00 and 15:11:40 UTC; (b) the cropped, downlinked ASIM image (777.4 nm) of the cloud backlit by internal lightning; the source locations of the five blue flash events detected between 15:10:00 and 15:11:35 UTC are shown with colored markers, time progressing from red to yellow. The flash leading to a blue jet is event number 3. Image credit: Neubert et al., doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-03122-6.

Blue Jet Observed from International Space Station

Jan 26, 2021 by News Staff

Using the Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM) observatory on the International Space Station (ISS), researchers have observed five intense blue...

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Three New Species of Extinct Marsupials Identified

Jan 26, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Dr. Laura Chornogubsky, a paleontologist in the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales ‘Bernardino Rivadavia’ and CONICET, has described one new genus...

Agol et al. measure the density of the seven TRAPPIST-1 planets. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech.

TRAPPIST-1 Planets Have Remarkably Similar Densities, Study Shows

Jan 26, 2021 by News Staff

The seven rocky exoplanets orbiting TRAPPIST-1, an ultracool dwarf star located 38.8 light-years away in the constellation Aquarius, are about 8% less...

An artist’s impression of a juvenile tyrannosaur. Image credit: Julius Csotonyi.

Tyrannosaur Hatchlings Were as Big as Medium-Sized Dog

Jan 26, 2021 by News Staff

An international team of paleontologists has examined the fossilized remains of baby tyrannosaurid dinosaurs found in Alberta, Canada, and Montana, the...

An artist’s impression of the TOI-178 system. Image credit: L. Calçada / ESO / Spaceengine.org.

Nearby Orange Dwarf Hosts Unique System of Six Planets

Jan 25, 2021 by News Staff

The TOI-178 planetary system, a 7.1-billion-year-old system of six planets in the super-Earth to mini-Neptune range, five of which are locked in a rare...

The 1,500-year-old ‘Christ, born of Mary’ inscription. Image credit: Tzachi Lang, Israel Antiquities Authority.

Israeli Archaeologists Find 1,500-Year-Old Christian Inscription

Jan 25, 2021 by News Staff

A 1,500-year-old inscription that reads ‘Christ, born of Mary’ has been discovered by a team of archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority...

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TESS Discovers Sextuply-Eclipsing Six-Star System

Jan 25, 2021 by Natali Anderson

TIC 168789840 is the first known sextuple (six-star) system consisting of three eclipsing binaries. Structure of TIC 168789840, a sextuple system of three...

Sapria himalayana can found in Southeast Asia. Image credit: Charles Davis / Davis Lab, Harvard University.

Scientists Sequence Genome of Rare Parasitic Flowering Plant

Jan 25, 2021 by News Staff

An international team of researchers has sequenced and analyzed the genome of Sapria himalayana, a rare holoparasitic flowering plant in the family Rafflesiaceae....

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Hubble Spots Beautiful Planetary Nebula

Jan 25, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

NASA has released a spectacular photo taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the planetary nebula ESO 455-10. This Hubble image shows ESO 455-10,...

An artist’s illustration of the hot-Jupiter WASP-62b. Image credit: M. Weiss / Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Cloudless Hot-Jupiter Exoplanet Spotted

Jan 22, 2021 by News Staff

A transiting gas giant called WASP-62b has a cloud- and haze-free atmosphere, according to new research. An artist’s illustration of the hot-Jupiter...

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Stupendously Large Black Holes Could Be Hiding in Universe

Jan 22, 2021 by News Staff

If ‘stupendously large’ black holes, those with masses more than 100 billion times that of the Sun, exist in the Universe, they would provide a powerful...

Labradormantis guilbaulti. Image credit: Demers-Potvin et al., doi: 10.1111/syen.12457.

Fossil of Cretaceous-Period Praying Mantis Found in Canada

Jan 22, 2021 by News Staff

Paleontologists have identified a new fossil genus and species of primitive praying mantis from fore- and hind-wing imprints discovered in Labrador, Canada. Labradormantis...

The buff-tailed bumblebee (Bombus terrestris). Image credit: Myriam.

Neonicotinoid Insecticides Disrupt Sleep of Bees and Fruit Flies, New Research Shows

Jan 22, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Neonicotinoid insecticides, such as imidacloprid, clothianidin, thiamethoxam and thiacloprid, affect the amount of sleep taken by both buff-tailed bumblebees...

An artistic rendering of Kraken Mare, a large liquid methane sea on Titan. Image credit: NASA’s John Glenn Research Center.

Titan’s Largest Methane Sea is Over 100 Meters Deep

Jan 21, 2021 by News Staff

Kraken Mare, a sea of liquid methane on Saturn’s moon Titan, is at least 100-m (330 feet) deep near its center, according to an analysis of data collected...

The neurophysiological and functional significance of silver vine response in cats: the olfactory system in cats detects cis-trans nepetalactol emitted from silver vine leaves and then stimulates release of β-endorphin; activation of μ-opioid receptors by a high level of β-endorphin evokes rubbing and rolling, which is inhibited by naloxone, an antagonist of μ-opioid receptors; face rubbing and rolling over transfer nepetalactol with repellent activity against Aedes albopictus from the leaves onto the cat’s face, head, and body fur where it helps to protect them from mosquito bites. Image credit: Reiko Uenoyama, Iwate University.

Bioactive Compounds Found in Catnip and Silver Vine Protect Cats against Mosquito Bites

Jan 21, 2021 by News Staff

Domestic cats and other felids rub their faces and heads against catnip (Nepeta cataria) and silver vine (Actinidia polygama) and roll on the ground as...

An example of a gravitational lens found in the DESI Legacy Surveys data. There are four sets of lensed images in DESI-090.9854-35.9683, corresponding to four distinct background galaxies -- from the outermost giant red arc to the innermost bright blue arc, arranged in four concentric circles. All of them are gravitationally lensed by the orange galaxy at the very center. Image credit: NOIRLab.

Astronomers Discover 1,210 New Strong Gravitational Lenses

Jan 21, 2021 by News Staff

Using a deep residual neural network and data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Legacy Imaging Surveys, astronomers have discovered...

Paleontologists Reconstruct Cloacal Opening of Non-Avian Dinosaur

Jan 21, 2021 by News Staff

Although paleontologists know now much about dinosaurs and their appearance, they have not known anything about how their cloacal region — the all-purpose...

The Australian lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri) at the National Zoo & Aquarium in Canberra, Australia. Image credit: Mitch Ames / CC BY-SA 4.0.

Australian Lungfish Genome Sequenced

Jan 21, 2021 by Natali Anderson

The Australian lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri), a species of lungfish native to the Mary and Burnett River systems in south-eastern Queensland, has a...

Life reconstruction of Xenodens calminechari. Image credit: Andrey Atuchin.

Cretaceous Mosasaur Had Shark-Like Cutting Teeth

Jan 20, 2021 by News Staff

A bizarre new genus and species of mosasaur with teeth unlike those of any known reptile has been identified from fossils found in Morocco. Life reconstruction...

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