December 24, 2025

A third path to explain consciousness: Biological computationalism

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  by Estonian Research Council edited by Gaby Clark, reviewed by Robert Egan  Editors’ notes A conceptual framework for scale-integrated hybrid systems. Credit: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (2026). DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2025.106524 Right now, the debate about consciousness often feels frozen between two entrenched positions. On one side sits computational functionalism, which treats cognition as something you can fully explain in terms […]

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WHEN AI LEARNS ‘WHY,’ IT CREATES BETTER CONTENT

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DECEMBER 23RD, 2025POSTED BY YALE (Credit: Getty Images) SHARE THIS  ARTICLE Facebook   Twitter   Reddit   Email You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. TAGS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE UNIVERSITY YALE UNIVERSITY A new study shows that when generative AI is trained to understand why certain headlines resonate—not just which ones perform

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AI helps explain how covert attention works and uncovers new neuron types

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Posted Today Shifting focus on a visual scene without moving our eyes — think driving, or reading a room for the reaction to your joke — is a behavior known as covert attention. We do it all the time, but little is known about its neurophysiological foundation. Now, using convolutional neural networks (CNNs), UC Santa Barbara

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Humans could have as many as 33 senses

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by Barry Smith, The Conversation edited by Gaby Clark, reviewed by Robert Egan  Editors’ notes Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Stuck in front of our screens all day, we often ignore our senses beyond sound and vision. And yet they are always at work. When we’re more alert, we feel the rough and smooth surfaces of objects, the stiffness

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Birth control can ease PCOS symptoms without added heart or diabetes risk, clinical trial finds

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by Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by Robert Egan  Editors’ notes Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Birth control pills, taken alone or paired with the drug metformin, did not raise the risk of metabolic syndrome, a precursor of heart disease and diabetes in women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) even

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Iron deficiency without anemia common with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis

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by Lori Solomon edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by Andrew Zinin  Editors’ notes Iron deficiency without anemia is a common feature of moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis (AD), according to a study published in Nutrients. Małgorzata Ponikowska, from Wroclaw Medical University in Poland, and colleagues characterized iron status in patients with AD and examined its relationship with disease severity and quality of

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Netrin-1 disrupts hepatitis B virus attachment and internalization, offering new treatment path

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by Kanazawa University edited by Lisa Lock, reviewed by Robert Egan  Editors’ notes Netrin-1 blocks hepatitis B virus entry by preventing LIPG-mediated attachment to hepatocytes and suppressing EGFR-driven internalization. Credit: PLOS Pathogens (2025). DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1013776 Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infects more than 250 million people worldwide and can lead to chronic liver disease and liver cancer. Current antiviral therapies suppress

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Nine-gene blood signature and methylene blue offer hope for cerebral malaria

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by National University of Singapore edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by Robert Egan  Editors’ notes Assistant Professor Benoit Malleret (left) and Dr. Hang Jing Wen (right) examining blood smears from Plasmodium coatneyi in the laboratory. Credit: NUS Medicine Malaria continues to place a substantial burden on many emerging economies, contributing to significant loss of life, long-term disability, and

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Intractable intestinal disease treatment: Xenogeneic-free polymer platform shows promise

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by The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by Robert Egan  Editors’ notes Precise control of polymer coating and surface modification via initiated Chemical Vapor Deposition (iCVD) process. Credit: Advanced Materials (2025). DOI: 10.1002/adma.202513371 Intestinal stem cells (ISCs) derived from a patient’s own cells have garnered significant attention as a new alternative for

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Over one-quarter of adults in the U.S. experience burdensome health cost

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by Elana Gotkine edited by Stephanie Baum, reviewed by Robert Egan  Editors’ notes Overall, 17.4% of adults experienced cost burdens and 9.9% experienced catastrophic cost burdens (CCBs) over a four-year period from 2018–2022, according to a study published online Dec. 22 in JAMA Internal Medicine. Adam Gaffney, M.D., M.P.H., from Harvard Medical School in Boston, and colleagues conducted a cohort

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