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#Measles outbreak, #AI in warfare, sped-up global #warming

In this episode of Science Quickly, we cover a few important updates on the measles outbreaks in the U.S. We also look at how governments are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence for military action, including the recent U.S. airstrikes against Iran.

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A teen, an algorithm and the race to stop #poaching

In this episode of Science Quickly, freelance wildlife writer #MelissaHobson investigates how a 17‑year‑old’s breakthrough artificial-intelligence-based gunshot detector could transform antipoaching efforts by giving rangers real-time alerts (...)
It could help protect critically endangered African #elephants (...)

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Retrograde cricopharyngeus dysfunction prevents upper‑esophageal gas release, producing significant aerodigestive symptoms. Emerging evidence shows targeted Botox injection can restore burping via neuromuscular retraining. #RCPD #Dysphagia #Otolaryngology #SciComm #ScienceQuickly

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How Venezuela’s Heavy Crude Shapes Climate Risks

In this episode, we dive into the climate stakes behind #Venezuela’s vast but troubled #oil reserves and the country’s mounting tensions with neighboring Guyana. Climate reporter @amywestervelt breaks down why the region’s heavy crude oil

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America’s #Children Face a New Era of #Health Risk

Recent federal public #health changes could affect children’s health, from #vaccine access to essential #medical care. In this episode, senior editor Dan Vergano breaks down what shifting national guidelines may mean for kids

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#ScienceQuickly: Inside the Struggle to Save an #Orca Community

#KendraPierreLouis: For #ScientificAmerican’s Science Quickly

If you’re of a certain generation, you might be able to trace your affinity for #orcas to repeated viewings of a certain movie: the seminal 1993 film Free Willy.
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Can #Vaccines Help Defeat #Cancer?

Host Kendra #PierreLouis speaks with reporter Rowan #MooreGerety about how #mRNA #vaccines, first successfully developed to protect against #COVID, are now being tested to treat cancers such as pancreatic cancer.

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What’s driving scientists away from the CDC

#CDC #Vaccines #Science #ScienceQuickly #USPol
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#ScienceQuickly by #ScientificAmerican: Kissing Bugs, Koalas and Clues to Life on Mars

A paper published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention argues that #Chagas_disease is now #endemic in the U.S. #Koalas may finally be spared from a deadly epidemic. Meanwhile NASA’s #Perseverance #Mars rover has uncovered tantalizing clues about potential ancient microbial #life on the Red Planet.

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Daniel Yon Explains Why Your Brain Is a Brilliant Illusionist | Scientific American

September 12, 2025

How Your Brain Constructs—And Sometimes Distorts—Your Experience of the World

 In his new book, Daniel Yon explains how our brain is constantly constructing reality

By Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi & Alex Sugiura

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Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.

You probably think you’re listening to my voice right now. But what if I told you that you’re actually experiencing a sophisticated hallucination?

Perception isn’t the passive process that most of us imagine it to be, with our senses simply recording reality and sending it up to our brains for processing. Instead, our brains are constantly constructing theories about what’s going on around us—and sometimes our brains get reality wrong.

Here to explain this mind-bending way of looking at, well, the mind, is Daniel Yon, an associate professor of cognitive neuroscience and director of the Uncertainty Lab at Birkbeck, University of London. Daniel is also the author of a recent book called A Trick of the Mind: How the Brain Invents Your Reality.

Thank you so much for coming on to chat with us.

Daniel Yon: Thank you for having me.

Feltman: So why don’t you start by telling me a little bit about your background and how it led you to write your latest book.

Yon: Yeah, so I’m an experimental psychologist and a cognitive neuroscientist, so that means my day job is to try and understand how your mind and brain work and how what happens inside your skull kind of makes the world that you live in.

So the motivation behind my new book, A Trick of the Mind, is that I think that the work that’s been going on in my lab and that which colleagues have been working on around the world gives us a brand-new way of thinking about how our brains work: that your brain is like a scientist. And I think this new idea …

Feltman: Hmm.

Yon: Can shed a lot of light on both the wonderful things [laughs] that your brain gets right but also the ways that our minds and brains can mislead us and get us to perceive and believe things that may not be true.

Feltman: Right. So you, you say that our brains are constantly hallucinating reality and that this is “a feature, not a bug.” Can you explain more what that means for our listeners?

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