A new study reveals that distal gene regulation via DNA looping evolved 150 million years earlier than previously believed. Using 3D genome mapping, researchers found this complex mechanism first emerged in comb jellies and other early animals.
“What if consciousness, like love, is the work of making relationships?” Alva Noë, chair of the philosophy department at the University of California, Berkeley, proposed at Stanford’s annual Presidential Lecture in the Humanities and Arts on Wednesday.
“Love names the work of opening up the world, the very labor of consciousness,” Noë said.
His talk at the Stanford Humanities Center went on to challenge philosophy’s traditional distinction between value and fact where it delimits questions about love and human perception, respectively.
For the first time, physicists have demonstrated a phenomenon known as the Terrell-Penrose effect, which causes an object moving close to the speed of light to warp before our eyes.
The new findings, a collaboration between TU Wien and the University of Vienna, once again confirm a key prediction of Einstein’s theory of relativity by making an optical illusion of relativistic motion observable for the first time.
New research suggests that prenatal exposure to SSRIs may alter brain development in ways that increase the risk of depression and anxiety later in life.
A programmable quantum chip has been developed that generates, manipulates, and launches five-dimensional entangled photons into free-space channels, encoded as optical vortex modes, thus bridging the worlds of integrated and free-space quantum photonics.
Cognitive dissonance is one of the most influential principles in psychology. A new paper examines the evidence and shows how discomfort isn’t the only emotion it creates.
The James Webb Space Telescope has just uncovered something extraordinary at the very core of our galaxy.
A new study reveals that Earth’s North and South Poles are shifting faster than ever before.