An international team of scientists from the UK, Spain, Denmark and Russia (including researchers from the HSE Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience) conducted an experiment demonstrating that people automatically integrate extralinguistic information into grammatical processing during verbal communication. The study findings were published in the Scientific Reports Journal.

Researchers from Uppsala University and elsewhere have been studying the effect of rising temperatures on the lifespan of pollinating fig wasps. The findings show that the wasps lived much shorter lives at high temperatures, which would make it difficult for them to travel the long distances between the trees they pollinate.

The plate boundary between Africa and the Iberian Peninsula could cause large tsunamis, according to a new study published recently in Nature Communications. Due to a lack of data, the studies available so far underestimated the seismic and tsunami risk of these large faults. This new work led by the ICM-CSIC shows that this zone has absorbed almost all the deformation of the plate collision in this region.

Findings from Canadian influenza vaccine effectiveness assessment for the 2021/22 season support switch to a different A(H3N2) strain for the northern hemisphere influenza vaccine 2022/23.

Biological systems fascinate scientists across disciplines because they come up with creative solutions to problems posed by their environment. Most strikingly, they can give rise to highly complex structures like the human brain or insect societies. In recent years it has also become clear that such systems at the same time have the remarkable capacity to rapidly break up an rebuild such structures, for example when cells reprogram to heal tissues after injury. One would expect that the same processes that maintain highly specialized structures also prohibit flexibility in response to signals from the environment. So how can biological systems simultaneously achieve robust specialization and rapid plasticity?

There are strong links between bacteria living in the gut and the levels of small molecules in the blood known as metabolites. Such is the finding of a new study led by researchers from Uppsala University and Lund University. The study is based on analyses of both fecal and blood samples from 8,583 participants in the Swedish CArdioPulmonary bioImage Study (SCAPIS).

UC Riverside engineers are developing low-cost, robotic “clothing” to help children with cerebral palsy gain control over their arm movements.

The researcher of the University of Malaga Ines Moreno has managed to reduce the amount of toxic proteins in the brain –which aggregate is the main cause of neuronal death in Alzheimer’s disease– in a preclinical model.