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Why law school applications are skyrocketing right now 

Why law school applications are skyrocketing right now 

Farmers in Trump Country Banked on Clean Energy Grants. Then Things Changed.

Farmers in Trump Country Banked on Clean Energy Grants. Then Things Changed.

Georgetown under microscope as White House scrutinizes antisemitism

Georgetown under microscope as White House scrutinizes antisemitism

Tech Bros Want Underpaid Gig Workers To Drive Wads Of Cash Around For You

Tech Bros Want Underpaid Gig Workers To Drive Wads Of Cash Around For You

Waltz admits ‘mistake’ sharing Yemen strike plans with journalist

Waltz admits ‘mistake’ sharing Yemen strike plans with journalist

NASA Deletes Comic Book About How Women Can Be Astronauts

NASA Deletes Comic Book About How Women Can Be Astronauts

Dairy Truck Spills 6,000 Gallons Of Milk On Highway

Dairy Truck Spills 6,000 Gallons Of Milk On Highway

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THE SWAMP

‘SNL’ Spoofs Pete Hegseth’s Yemen Group Chat With Mikey Madison as Teen Girl Going on Date With Matt Gaetz
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‘SNL’ Spoofs Pete Hegseth’s Yemen Group Chat With Mikey Madison as Teen Girl Going on Date With Matt Gaetz

Farmers in Trump Country Banked on Clean Energy Grants. Then Things Changed.
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Farmers in Trump Country Banked on Clean Energy Grants. Then Things Changed.

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Unitree’s G1 robot at the Mobile World Congress 2025 in Barcelona, Spain, on March 6, 2025. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images
Asia Business Featured Technology USA

U.S. tech giants are betting big on humanoid robots — but China’s already ahead

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Featured Health Medicine

Researchers Discover New Mechanism for Rapid Liver Regeneration to Restore Damaged Livers

Welcome to the Preschool Plague Years
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Welcome to the Preschool Plague Years

Kink and LGBT dating apps exposed 1.5m private user images online
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Kink and LGBT dating apps exposed 1.5m private user images online

THE WRAP

Struck By Lightning, Australian Woman Wakes Up With New Eye Colour

Struck By Lightning, Australian Woman Wakes Up With New Eye Colour

Dairy Truck Spills 6,000 Gallons Of Milk On Highway

Dairy Truck Spills 6,000 Gallons Of Milk On Highway

Florida Man Attempts To Ram Tesla Protesters With Car

Florida Man Attempts To Ram Tesla Protesters With Car

These Cars Have The Best Wings Ever

These Cars Have The Best Wings Ever

Henry Ford Ate Weeds

Henry Ford Ate Weeds

Crime Religion Society

Youth pastor who stabbed family as son asked ‘Dad why do you have the knife?’ headed to prison

Matthew Richards addresses the court during his sentencing hearing on March 26, 2025, in Johnson County, Kansas (Law&Crime). A youth pastor in Kansas will spend […]

Crime

Thieves use ‘Jaws of Life’ at 7-Eleven stores to steal more than $200K

Thieves allegedly used a “Jaws of Life” tool to break into ATMs at Maryland 7-Eleven stores (Prince George’s County Police Department). The “Jaws of Life” […]

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Hegseth, Rubio, others ‘broke laws’ by using ‘disappearing’ messaging app to discuss military strikes

President Donald Trump listens as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, […]

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Well-Dressed Hairless Cat Rescued After Owner’s Maserati Carjacked

A woman’s terrifying ordeal when her Maserati Ghibli was carjacked in Manhattan got a lot scarier when she realized her cat was in the Italian […]

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Florida Man Attempts To Ram Tesla Protesters With Car

Luckily no one was injured when a Nissan Pathfinder drove into the crowd of protesters gathered outside a Tesla store

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Judge Rules ‘Moral Damages’ Against Cacti Smuggling Ring, Orders Them to Pay for Desert Restoration

In Italy, a judge has applied a novel legal concept in sentencing two convicted plant smugglers: payment for the damage done to an irreplaceable ecosystem. […]

TECH TRENDS

Unitree’s G1 robot at the Mobile World Congress 2025 in Barcelona, Spain, on March 6, 2025. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images

U.S. tech giants are betting big on humanoid robots — but China’s already ahead

31/03/2025
Startup Reportedly Claimed Fake Clients as Its AI-Powered Sales Bot Flailed

Startup Reportedly Claimed Fake Clients as Its AI-Powered Sales Bot Flailed

31/03/2025
AI’s “Biggest Test” Is Turning Into a Catastrophe as CoreWeave Flounders

AI’s “Biggest Test” Is Turning Into a Catastrophe as CoreWeave Flounders

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Insecure Dudes Are Getting Beard Transplants

Insecure Dudes Are Getting Beard Transplants

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Kink and LGBT dating apps exposed 1.5m private user images online

Kink and LGBT dating apps exposed 1.5m private user images online

30/03/2025
Tales of Merlin and King Arthur Resurface After 750 Years, Hidden in a Bookbinding

Tales of Merlin and King Arthur Resurface After 750 Years, Hidden in a Bookbinding

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Asia Business Featured Technology USA

U.S. tech giants are betting big on humanoid robots — but China’s already ahead

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Unitree’s G1 robot at the Mobile World Congress 2025 in Barcelona, Spain, on March 6, 2025. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images

American tech giants are increasingly focusing on the humanoid robotics space, but analysts say they’re at risk of falling behind China.

Tagged CHINA, HUMANOIDS, ROBOTS
Featured Health Medicine

Researchers Discover New Mechanism for Rapid Liver Regeneration to Restore Damaged Livers

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Researchers at the National Cancer Research Centre in Spain (CNIO) have discovered a mechanism that is triggered just minutes after acute liver damage occurs—and it […]

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Technology

Startup Reportedly Claimed Fake Clients as Its AI-Powered Sales Bot Flailed

  • 31/03/2025
Startup Reportedly Claimed Fake Clients as Its AI-Powered Sales Bot Flailed

You’ve probably heard that AI is going to revolutionize work. That’s according to tech tycoons, corporate stenographers, and excited venture capitalists — the folks polluting […]

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Kink and LGBT dating apps exposed 1.5m private user images online

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The End of College Life

The End of College Life

Watch BMW Meticulously Restore A 507 Roadster Once Owned By Elvis

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[Imagen 3] Don't miss out! Follow PsyPost on Bluesky! A new study published in Human Brain Mapping has found that music which evokes nostalgia activates a unique network of brain regions tied to memory, self-reflection, and emotion. Researchers discovered that self-selected nostalgic songs triggered more brain activity than familiar or unfamiliar non-nostalgic music in both younger and older adults. Notably, older adults showed even stronger activation in key nostalgia-related areas, suggesting nostalgic music may play a special role in memory and emotional processing later in life. This research was driven by growing interest in how music can help people with memory loss, especially those with Alzheimer’s disease or related conditions. While it’s well known that music can stir strong emotions and bring back personal memories, scientists have only recently started to explore the brain’s response to nostalgic music in detail. The goal of the new study was to understand how nostalgia-evoking music differs from other types of music in the brain, and how these effects might vary across the lifespan. This foundational knowledge could eventually inform new therapies using music to help preserve memory and emotional well-being in aging populations. “I grew up as an avid musician and music listener. As a teenager, I began to notice how certain songs could transport me back to moment in time, where I could truly feel how I felt in that moment or era of my life and return to that headspace,” said study author Sarah Hennessy, a postdoctoral research scientist at the University of Arizona, who conducted the study while a PhD student at the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California. “I’d be listening to the Beatles White Album and I’d be back in the car with my dad, driving to school for fourth grade through the snow and sipping a hot chocolate. I began collecting these types of songs and ‘saving them for a rainy day,’ in a way, where I listened to them when I felt lonely, or simply needed to reminisce.” “Later, various anecdotal reports began to emerge that individuals with Alzheimer’s and other dementias could still emotionally respond to personalized music, even with profound memory degradation, which I was very interested in. Unsurprisingly, this fascination continued into my research career! So my primary motivation for this project was to understand why and how we feel nostalgia associated with music, and how this manifests in the brain across adulthood, which will help us understand these processes in individuals with cognitive decline.” For their study, the researchers recruited 57 healthy participants—29 younger adults aged 18 to 35, and 28 older adults aged 60 and above. Each participant identified six songs that personally evoked nostalgia. “Nostalgic music is not universal,” Hennessy noted. “Every individual has a different personalized set of nostalgic songs that have meaning and memories attached to them. These songs span across every genre.” The researchers then used a machine-learning tool to find other songs that were musically similar in tempo, key, and energy, but did not evoke nostalgia. These were used as “familiar control” songs. Additionally, the team selected unfamiliar songs that were also musically matched, ensuring that differences in brain activity could be attributed to nostalgia rather than musical features or familiarity alone. During the main experiment, participants listened to their nostalgia-evoking songs, as well as the matched familiar and unfamiliar control songs, while undergoing a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scan. Each song was played for 40 seconds, and participants kept their eyes closed to focus on the music and any thoughts or feelings it evoked. Afterward, they completed tasks assessing memory and rated how nostalgic, positive, or emotionally intense the songs felt. The brain scans revealed that nostalgic songs, more than the control songs, activated a wide array of brain regions. These included areas involved in self-reflection and memory (such as the medial prefrontal cortex, posterior cingulate cortex, and hippocampus), emotional salience (like the insula and anterior cingulate cortex), and reward processing (including the ventral tegmental area and orbitofrontal cortex). These regions together form a network associated with processing autobiographical memories, regulating emotions, and feeling pleasure—all key elements of the nostalgic experience. Interestingly, the nostalgic songs also triggered increased functional connectivity between brain regions involved in self-related processing and emotional awareness. Specifically, the posterior medial cortex showed stronger communication with the anterior insula when participants listened to nostalgic music, suggesting that nostalgia may integrate personal memories with emotional significance in a particularly powerful way. “Despite all of the differences present in musical choice, nostalgia as evoked by music is associated with a very clear pattern in the brain across individuals and across the lifespan,” Hennessy told PsyPost. “This pattern involves parts of the brain called the default mode network and the reward network. These networks of the brain help us process information about our own life stories, and respond to things that bring us pleasure.” Older adults not only reported feeling more positive emotions while listening to music in general, but they also showed stronger brain responses to nostalgic songs than younger adults. In particular, older participants showed greater activation in brain areas related to sound, memory, and emotional meaning, such as the temporal pole, angular gyrus, and sensory processing regions. The findings suggest that older adults may engage more deeply with nostalgic music, possibly reflecting a shift in emotional priorities with age. “We observed that older adults actually had slightly stronger activation in these nostalgia-related regions than younger adults,” Hennessy explained. “We expected older and younger adults to have similar patterns of activation, but this finding was a bit unexpected. There are a few different explanations for this finding, but future work is needed to really parse them apart. But for now, it’s an interesting piece of information to explore in the future.” But the study, like all research, includes some caveats. “Our sample was from the greater Los Angeles area, so of course is not representative of all younger and older adults,” Hennessy noted. “I think there is a lot of cool work to be done exploring the role of culture in music-evoked nostalgia and autobiographical memory. Participants only listed to 40 second clips in the scanner (we hope to explore these research questions with full-length pieces in the future). However, the fact that we saw such robust effects with only 40 seconds is pretty amazing.” Still, this research represents a significant step toward understanding the neuroscience of nostalgia and how music taps into deep emotional and autobiographical experiences. The study’s authors hope to apply these insights to future work with clinical populations, including individuals with Alzheimer’s disease. “The goal is to use this research to create, improve, and understand music-based interventions for neurodegenerative diseases,” Hennessy explained. “If we can understand how music-evoked memories and emotions can remain in individuals with dementia, we can learn how to harness music to improve quality of life for these individuals and their caregivers.” The study, “Music-Evoked Nostalgia Activates Default Mode and Reward Networks Across the Lifespan,” was authored by Sarah Hennessy, Petr Janata, Talia Ginsberg, Jonas Kaplan, and Assal Habibi. Tweet Send Scan Share Send Pin Share Share Share Share Share RELATED Scientists identify distinct brain patterns linked to mental health symptoms Developmental Psychology Scientists identify distinct brain patterns linked to mental health symptoms March 24, 2025 A new study finds that brain connectivity patterns can predict different types of mental health symptoms, with distinct features linked to internalizing and externalizing behaviors across development. Read moreDetails Scientists reveal a weird effect of psychedelics on memory Neuroimaging Can ibogaine repair brain damage in multiple sclerosis? New case reports spark interest March 23, 2025 A new case report describes how two multiple sclerosis patients showed reduced brain lesions and symptom improvement following ibogaine treatment. 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Read moreDetails Study links subtle motor signs in children to white matter structure, but not uniquely to ADHD ADHD Study links subtle motor signs in children to white matter structure, but not uniquely to ADHD March 20, 2025 Subtle motor difficulties in children are linked to white matter structure, but a new study suggests these brain differences are not unique to ADHD. Read moreDetails Sex differences in brain structure are present at birth and remain stable during early development Neuroimaging Sex differences in brain structure are present at birth and remain stable during early development March 20, 2025 Newborn brains already show sex differences in structure, with male infants having more white matter and female infants having more grey matter, according to a new study. 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Believing you’re working with a machine lowers your confidence — even if you’re right

Believing you’re working with a machine lowers your confidence — even if you’re right

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Unitree’s G1 robot at the Mobile World Congress 2025 in Barcelona, Spain, on March 6, 2025. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images

U.S. tech giants are betting big on humanoid robots — but China’s already ahead

American tech giants are increasingly focusing on the humanoid robotics space, but analysts say they're at risk of falling behind...

Why law school applications are skyrocketing right now 

Why law school applications are skyrocketing right now 

Tech Bros Want Underpaid Gig Workers To Drive Wads Of Cash Around For You

Tech Bros Want Underpaid Gig Workers To Drive Wads Of Cash Around For You

DJ Khaled, Kodak Black & City Girls Honored With Miami Streets Named After Them

DJ Khaled, Kodak Black & City Girls Honored With Miami Streets Named After Them

This futuristic $6,000 chair was designed with data from the Polaris Dawn mission

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