Science Chronicle Editorial Team, Author at Science Chronicle

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A practical checklist for checking science-book claims, comparisons, risk figures and sources, with a reusable reading record.

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Brain & Behavior How the Brain Works

Motor Cortex Plasticity: How Practice Changes a Skill, and What Brain Studies Show

November 1, 2026 Science Chronicle Editorial Team

Motor learning changes performance and brain activity. Learn what human scans and mouse studies show, and how to build useful skill practice.

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Animal Behavior Nature

Corvid Planning and Working Memory: What Raven, Jay and Crow Experiments Show

November 1, 2026 Science Chronicle Editorial Team

Explore corvid planning and working-memory experiments, future tool use, food caching and crow neurons, with clear limits on human-like interpretations.

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Emotions & Wellbeing Psychology & Human Development

Somatic Experiencing for PTSD: What Clinical Trials Support and What Remains Unproven

October 31, 2026 Science Chronicle Editorial Team

Review Somatic Experiencing for PTSD, including positive and negative trials, current guideline status and the limits of claims about stored traumatic energy.

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Development & Relationships Psychology & Human Development

Adolescent Brain Development: Risk, Reward and the Limits of the Immature-Brain Story

October 31, 2026 Science Chronicle Editorial Team

Explore adolescent brain development, peer-influence experiments and MRI findings, without reducing teenagers to an immature brain or a fixed maturity age.

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Animal Behavior Nature

Do Cats Recognize Their Names? What Playback Experiments Actually Show

October 31, 2026 Science Chronicle Editorial Team

Do cats recognize their names? Explore playback studies, ear and head responses, sample exclusions and why recognizing a sound differs from coming when called.

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Brain & Behavior How the Brain Works

Synaptic Pruning and Microglia: How Brain Connections Change, Without the Detox Myth

October 31, 2026 Science Chronicle Editorial Team

Microglia help remodel brain connections. Explore developmental pruning, the limits of mouse sleep studies and why brain-detox product claims overreach.

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Animal Behavior Nature

Bumblebee Social Learning: What a Two-Step Puzzle Reveals About Insect Cognition

October 30, 2026 Science Chronicle Editorial Team

How did five of fifteen bumblebees learn a two-step puzzle? Explore the social-learning experiment, its controls and the limits of claims about culture.