Irregularly shaped parks reduce mortality risk

https://neurosciencenews.com/park-shape-mortality-15269/

The human brain is prepared to follow the rhythm of a song or of a dance

https://neurosciencenews.com/song-dance-brain-15265/

How Yvette Mayorga’s Luscious Artworks Use ‘Rasquache Aesthetics’ to Address the Dark Side of the American Dream

https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/yvette-mayorga-geary-contemporary-1712022

Giant Magnetic Ropes in a Galaxy’s Halo

Nov 29, 2019 | Highlight of the Month, Latest News Physics

Giant Magnetic Ropes in a Galaxy’s...

A Fifth Fundamental Force Could Really Exist, But We Haven’t Found It Yet

https://www.technology.org/2019/11/27/a-fifth-fundamental-force-could-really-exist-but-we-havent-found-it-yet/

Highest-energy light from a gamma-ray burst ever: Previously unseen component of extreme stellar explosions

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/11/191120131300.htm

A newfound black hole in the Milky Way is weirdly heavy

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/newfound-black-hole-milky-way-is-weirdly-heavy

More Prince, More Pleasure: The Joys of the Expanded ‘1999’

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/27/arts/music/prince-1999-review.html

The difference between an expert’s brain and a novice’s

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/11/191118110956.htm

Beauty in the biased eye of the beholder

https://neurosciencenews.com/beauty-biased-15236/

Shining a light on synaptic plasticity

https://neurosciencenews.com/synaptic-plasticity-15240/

Ayahuasca DMT compound changes brainwaves to vivid ‘waking-dream’ state

https://neurosciencenews.com/ayahuasca-waking-dream-15226/

NIH, NIST researchers use artificial intelligence for quality control of stem cell-derived tissues

https://www.technology.org/2019/11/15/nih-nist-researchers-use-artificial-intelligence-for-quality-control-of-stem-cell-derived-tissues/

How artificial intelligence can transform psychiatry

https://neurosciencenews.com/artificial-intelligence-psychiatry-15208/

Runaway star was ejected from the “heart of darkness”

Nov 22, 2019 | Highlight of the Month

Runaway star was ejected from the “heart of...

Astronomers find a golden glow from a distant stellar collision

https://www.technology.org/2019/11/14/astronomers-find-a-golden-glow-from-a-distant-stellar-collision/

Astronomers Confirm that Jupiter‘s Icy Moon Europa has Water by First-Ever Direct Measurement

https://www.technology.org/2019/11/19/astronomers-confirm-that-jupiters-icy-moon-europa-has-water-by-first-ever-direct-measurement/

A Weakened Black Hole Allows Its Galaxy to Awaken

https://www.technology.org/2019/11/19/a-weakened-black-hole-allows-its-galaxy-to-awaken/

Endangered Crafts and the Destinations Keeping Them Alive

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/19/travel/crafts-hobbies.html

How to Peer Through a Wormhole

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/13/science/wormholes-physics-astronomy-cosmos.html?fallback=false&recId=231318817&locked=0&geoContinent=EU&geoRegion=SE&recAlloc=story-geo&geoCountry=ES&blockId=home-featured&imp_id=831008094&action=click&module=editorsPicks&pgtype=Article&region=Footer

I Have Nothing to Say as an Artist’: Anish Kapoor on Why He Avoids Putting Meaning Into His Precisely Engineered Work

https://news.artnet.com/the-big-interview/anish-kapoor-interview-2-1698177

Virtual ‘moonwalk’ for science reveals distortions in spatial memory

https://neurosciencenews.com/virtual-moonwalk-spatial-memory-15232/

Yoga and physical therapy as treatment for chronic lower back pain also improves sleep

https://neurosciencenews.com/yoga-pain-sleep-15234/

Trash talk hurts, even when it comes from a robot

https://neurosciencenews.com/robots-trash-talk-15230/

Ayahuasca DMT compound changes brainwaves to vivid ‘waking-dream’ state

https://neurosciencenews.com/ayahuasca-waking-dream-15226/

Why the line between life and death is now more blurred than ever

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24432570-300-why-the-line-between-life-and-death-is-now-more-blurred-than-ever/

Geneticists are writing the rule book for creating gene-edited babies

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2224141-geneticists-are-writing-the-rule-book-for-creating-gene-edited-babies/

Don’t miss: Art meets science, atoms find love and numbers grow curves

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24432550-400-dont-miss-art-meets-science-atoms-find-love-and-numbers-grow-curves/

Extrawelt – Neuland

Nov 22, 2019 | Song of the Week

Imagined movements can alter our brains

https://www.technology.org/2019/11/11/imagined-movements-can-alter-our-brains/

MRI captures the most detailed view yet of a whole human brain

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mri-scan-most-detailed-look-yet-whole-human-brain

Julie Mehretu’s New LACMA Survey Reveals an Artist at the Peak of Her Power—But Also One Unusually Eager to Share the Credit

https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/julie-mehretu-lacma-review-1699149

Why dark matter’s no-show could mean a big bang rethink

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24432560-600-why-dark-matters-no-show-could-mean-a-big-bang-rethink/

The Music and Magic of Singing

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/finding-your-voice/201911/the-music-and-magic-singing

How meditation can help you make fewer mistakes

https://neurosciencenews.com/meditation-mistakes-15189/

Chemists observe ‘spooky’ quantum tunneling: Extremely large electric fields can prevent umbrella-shaped ammonia molecules from inverting

Nov 15, 2019 | Highlight of the Month

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/11/191104190701.htm

After the Fall: 30 Years On, Germany’s Art World Reflects on the Night the Berlin Wall Fell (And What Came After)

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/berlin-wall-30-years-2019-1694041

A will to survive might take AI to the next level

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/will-to-survive-might-take-artificial-intelligence-next-level

Building the first holographic brain ‘atlas’

https://neurosciencenews.com/holographic-brain-atlas-15187/

AI can predict if you’ll die soon – but we’ve no idea how it works

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2222907-ai-can-predict-if-youll-die-soon-but-weve-no-idea-how-it-works/

Mexican Archaeologists Just Unearthed a Humongous Mass Grave Filled With Mammoth Skeletons

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/mass-mammoth-grave-1698237

Super Flu and Dortmunder Philharmoniker – Volkwein (official video)

Nov 15, 2019 | Song of the Week

Who owns life? The world is about to decide, with huge ramifications

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24432552-700-who-owns-life-the-world-is-about-to-decide-with-huge-ramifications/

An all-Shostakovich triumph from pianist Andrey Gugnin

http://m.classical-music.com/monthly-choice/all-shostakovich-triumph-pianist-andrey-gugnin

How does consciousness work? A radical theory has mind-blowing answers

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24432540-200-how-does-consciousness-work-a-radical-theory-has-mind-blowing-answers/

High-Intensity Interval Training Boosts Memory Performance

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-athletes-way/201911/high-intensity-interval-training-boosts-memory-performance

Scientists may just have discovered a new class of black holes

https://www.technology.org/2019/11/06/scientists-may-just-have-discovered-a-new-class-of-black-holes/

Theta – Entering the World of Our Subconscious

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/theta-entering-the-world-of-our-subconscious_b_59a19597e4b0d0ef9f1c1452

Brain waves and meditation

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100319210631.htm

Different Types of Brain Waves: Delta, Theta, Alpha, Beta, Gamma

https://itsusync.com/different-types-of-brain-waves-delta-theta-alpha-beta-gamma

Zen Gamma

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/zen-gamma/

Amygdala Hijack and the Fight or Flight Response

https://www.verywellmind.com/what-happens-during-an-amygdala-hijack-4165944

Amygdala to Hippocampus Communication May Explain Reactivation of Negative Memories

https://www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/news/amygdala-to-hippocampus-communication-may-explain-reactivation-of-negative-memories-317961

From Structure to Behavior in Basolateral Amygdala-Hippocampus Circuits

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fncir.2017.00086/full

Are we ‘brainwashed’ during sleep?

https://neurosciencenews.com/sleep-cerebrospinal-fluid-15153/

Einstein killed the aether. Now the idea is back to save relativity

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24432543-300-einstein-killed-the-aether-now-the-idea-is-back-to-save-relativity/

A Quantum Explanation for Consciousness?

https://columbiasciencereview.com/2014/03/10/a-quantum-explanation-for-consciousness/

Alfred Schnittke – Sonata for Cello and Piano (1988)

Nov 7, 2019 | Song of the Week

JS Bach is the greatest composer of all time, say today’s leading composers for BBC Music Magazine

http://m.classical-music.com/news/js-bach-greatest-composer-all-time-say-today-s-leading-composers-bbc-music-magazine

Transhuman or translucid II – More Light on: The Drive behind Creativity – Passion or Obsession?

Nov 7, 2019 | Blog, Highlight of the Month

Transhuman or translucid II More Light on: The Drive behind Creativity – Passion or Obsession? A cellist fervently practices for an upcoming concert until she manages to express precisely what the score means to her. A scientist works feverishly to develop a...

‘This Is Who We’ve Been Waiting For’: A Diva on the Precipice

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/25/arts/music/julia-bullock-zauberland-lincoln-center.html

Faith, truth and forgiveness: How your brain processes abstract thoughts

https://neurosciencenews.com/abstract-thought-processing-15141/

Second-ever interstellar comet contains alien water

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03334-5

How jazz improvisation affects the brain

https://neurosciencenews.com/jazz-improvisation-brain-15122/

A new theory of brain organization takes aim at the mystery of consciousness

https://neurosciencenews.com/brain-organization-consciousness-15132/

Mindfulness meditation enhances positive effects of psilocybin

https://neurosciencenews.com/mindfulness-psilocybin-15121/

New measurement of Hubble constant adds to cosmic mystery

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191023150327.htm

Does multitasking improve attention-shifting and task-switching?

https://www.technology.org/2019/10/27/does-multitasking-improve-attention-shifting-and-task-switching/

Quantum supremacy: What can we do with a quantum computer?

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2221372-quantum-supremacy-what-can-we-do-with-a-quantum-computer/

Name that tune: Brain takes just 100 to 300 milliseconds to recognize familiar music

https://neurosciencenews.com/music-recognition-15146/

A sci-fi anthology offers widely divergent glimpses of the future

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24432532-900-a-sci-fi-anthology-offers-widely-divergent-glimpses-of-the-future/

Using Deep Learning as a Searchlight for Dark Matter

Nov 1, 2019 | Highlight of the Month

Using Deep Learning as a Searchlight for Dark...

Are We Uniquely Sapient?

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/pura-vida/201910/are-we-uniquely-sapient

Daily exposure to blue light may accelerate aging, even if it doesn’t reach your eyes

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191017101253.htm

Quatre poèmes hindous | Julia Bullock, Sir Simon Rattle, London Symphony Orchestra

Nov 1, 2019 | Song of the Week

Creativity Runs on Passion

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/creativity-the-art-and-science/201910/creativity-runs-passion

Mothers’ behavior influences bonding hormone oxytocin in babies

https://neurosciencenews.com/behavior-bonding-oxytocin-15080/

What religion does to your brain

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/322539.php

How our memories stabilize while we sleep

https://neurosciencenews.com/sleep-memory-15088/

There Are Two Hard Problems of Consciousness, Not One

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/theory-knowledge/201910/there-are-two-hard-problems-consciousness-not-one

Male and female mice have different brain cells

https://neurosciencenews.com/male-female-brain-cells-15087/

How to spot a wormhole (if they exist)

https://phys.org/news/2019-10-wormhole.html

Immune cells rewire and repair the brain while we sleep

https://neurosciencenews.com/immune-cells-rewire-repair-15094/

Leonardo da Vinci, Maestro of Change, Shines at the Louvre

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/23/arts/design/leonardo-da-vinci-louvre-review.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts&action=click&contentCollection=arts&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront

Archaeologists Discover 20 Sealed Ancient Egyptian Coffins

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/twenty-colorful-sealed-coffins-found-near-luxor-egypt-180973364/

Distant galaxies moving in sync hint at cosmic web across the universe

Oct 24, 2019 | Highlight of the Month

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2220797-distant-galaxies-moving-in-sync-hint-at-cosmic-web-across-the-universe/

A Guide to the Louvre’s Gargantuan Leonardo da Vinci Retrospective

http://www.artnews.com/2019/10/23/leonardo-da-vinci-louvre-guide/

L’Arpeggiata / Christina Pluhar / Marco Beasley – Homo fugit velut umbra (Passacaglia della Vita)

Oct 24, 2019 | Song of the Week

In a first, scientists pinpoint neural activity’s role in human longevity

Oct 17, 2019 | Mind Health

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191016131224.htm

Lucid dreaming: a state of consciousness with features of both waking and non-lucid dreaming

Oct 17, 2019 | Spiritual/Psychological

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19750924

Diversity May Be Key to Reducing Errors in Quantum Computing

Oct 17, 2019 | Neuroscience

Diversity May Be Key to Reducing Errors in Quantum...

Dying Languages Cry Out in ‘Last Whispers’

Oct 17, 2019 | The Arts Section

Quantum weirdness could allow a person-sized wormhole to last forever

Oct 17, 2019 | Physics

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2219039-quantum-weirdness-could-allow-a-person-sized-wormhole-to-last-forever/

Musical perception: nature or nurture?

https://neurosciencenews.com/musical-perception-nature-nurture-15059/

Habitual tea drinking modulates brain efficiency: evidence from brain connectivity evaluation

https://www.aging-us.com/article/102023/text

Milky Way Raids Intergalactic “Bank Accounts” Hubble Study Finds

https://www.technology.org/2019/10/11/milky-way-raids-intergalactic-bank-accounts-hubble-study-finds/

Caring Mindfulness at the Service of Others

https://www.matthieuricard.org/en/blog/posts/caring-mindfulness-at-the-service-of-others

Astronomer Royal: We’re destroying the book of life before reading it

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2219796-astronomer-royal-were-destroying-the-book-of-life-before-reading-it/

How evolution builds genes from scratch

Oct 17, 2019 | Highlight of the Month

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03061-x Image Credit: Paul Nicklen/NG Image Collection related books : See More

Lee Krasner, Hiding in Plain Sight

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/19/arts/lee-krasner-barbican-schirn-kunsthalle.html