A new experiment involving anesthetized rats is fueling one of the most audacious ideas in neuroscience: that consciousness could arise from quantum processes inside the brain. Published in August 2024 in the peer-reviewed journal eNeuro, the study adds experimental weight to the long-debated Orch OR theory developed by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Roger Penrose and anesthesiologist
An artist’s impression of the massive shark that lived 115 million years ago (Credit: Polyanna von Knorring, Swedish Museum of Natural History) In the early 1990s, five unusually large shark vertebrae were unearthed along the rugged coastline near Darwin, Australia. At the time, they were thought to be the remains of a great white shark,
Lower Paxton Township supervisors chose a new chair on Tuesday night. Pamela Thompson resigned from that position last week. The board’s vice chair, John Campbell was elected as chair. Kate Scheib was elected vice chair and will also hold onto her position as treasurer. Robin Lindsey will remain secretary and Charles Stuart will remain assistant
Arc System Works has announced Donutal, an alien interrogation adventure game where “conversation” is your only weapon. It will launch for PC via Steam in 2026. A demo is available now. Here is an overview of the game, via its Steam page: About You awaken from a cold sleep and suddenly find yourself in the
Deer have the ability to see ultraviolet light, and a recent study shows they can also leave a glowing trail visible in those wavelengths, too. The discovery casts a whole new light on the way deer are communicating with each other, and how they perceive their environment. Male white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) are known for
Although Earth is approximately spherical, its gravity field doesn’t adhere to the same geometry. In visualizations, it more closely resembles a potato, with bumps and divots. One of the strongest of these depressions – where the gravity field is weaker – lies under Antarctica. Now, new models of how the so-called Antarctic Geoid Low evolved
Gold has historically stood as the ultimate physical constant. Its refusal to oxidize or interact with the elements around it earned it the designation of a noble metal. This chemical isolationism made gold the ideal candidate for currency and high-end electronics, because it remains unchanged by time or atmosphere. However, this reputation for being unreactive
The ushikuvirus is seen in this electron microscope image provided by professor Masaharu Takemura of the Tokyo University of Science. TSUKUBA, Ibaraki — A research team led by the Tokyo University of Science and the National Institutes of Natural Sciences has discovered a new species of giant
Young, successful AI researchers are increasingly choosing to leave academia for industry.Credit: Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty In 2025, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta collectively spent US$380 billion on building artificial-intelligence tools. That number is expected to surge still higher this year, to $650 billion, to fund the building of physical infrastructure, such as data centres (see go.nature.com/3lzf79q).
The low-surface-brightness galaxy CDG-2, within the dashed red circle at right, is dominated by dark matter and contains only a sparse scattering of stars. The full image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is at left. NASA, ESA, Dayi Li (UToronto); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI) In the vast tapestry of the universe, most galaxies shine