Research Stash Weekly Review #41

Weekly Review #41 – Summary of the latest news In science and technology research across the world, carefully handpicked by team Research Stash

Earliest life may have arisen in ponds, not oceans

Primitive ponds may have provided a suitable environment for brewing up Earth’s first life forms, more so than oceans, a new MIT study finds. Read More

‘Three-person’ baby boy born in Greece

Fertility doctors in Greece and Spain say they have produced a baby from three people in order to overcome a woman’s infertility. Read More

Researchers unearth remains of a previously unknown hominin species from a cave in the Philippines

The human family tree has grown another branch after researchers unearthed remains of a previously unknown hominin species from a cave in the Philippines. They have named the new species, which was probably small-bodied, Homo luzonensis. Read More

‘Second Brain’ Neurons Located in the Gut Observed For the First Time

Researchers at Flinders University reveal a unique neural motor firing pattern illustrating how the human enteric nervous system coordinates contractions in the gastrointestinal tract. Read More

You Absolutely Love Dancing and There’s a Psychological Reason Why

Groove has been defined by researchers as the pleasurable desire to move to music. That is, why we are compelled to tap or dance along to music, and why does it feel good to move to music? And why would this compulsion elicit pleasure? Read More

Massive Study Debunks Claim That There’s a Single Gene For Depression

New research on depression has debunked decades of work that singled out individual genes responsible for the major mood disorder. Read More

Humans can make new brain cells into their 90s, scientists discover

Humans can make fresh brain cells until they are well into their 90s, but the production of new neurons falls in those with Alzheimer’s, even when the disease has recently taken hold, scientists have found. Read More

Scientists set to unveil the first picture of a black hole

On Wednesday, astronomers across the globe will hold “six major press conferences” simultaneously to announce the first results of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), which was designed precisely for that purpose. Read More

Scientists Say They Can Make Light Travel 30x Faster Than Normal

Scientists at the University of Central Florida say they’ve figured out how to make pulses of light travel 30 times as fast as usual — or even backward. Read More

Sorry, graphene—borophene is the new wonder material that’s got everyone excited

Stronger and more flexible than graphene, a single-atom layer of boron could revolutionize sensors, batteries, and catalytic chemistry. Read More

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