What to know about the fake election poll numbers shared and retracted by a mysterious company

A mysterious political firm admitted to fabricating multiple election polls this month. The fake results from a company ...
eLife

Local inhibitory dynamics underpin temporal integration and functional segregation between barrels and septa in the mouse barrel cortex

Argunşah et al. investigate the mechanisms underlying the differential response dynamics of barrel vs septa domains in shaping the responses to single vs multiple whiskers. Based on the observation of ...
MyJoyOnline

False news publication law: Both NDC and NPP use arrests to energise their bases – Adawudu

A member of the NDC Legal Team, Victor Kwadjoga Adawudu, says both the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) have turned arrests over offensive social media posts into ...
eLife

Closed-loop neurofeedback reshapes preparatory brain states to bias subsequent pain processing

EEG neurofeedback as a method to modulate brain activity prior to painful stimulation and examined its effect on pain perception in a well-powered, double-blind study. Results showed that real, but ...
AOL

Russia will use Ukraine’s drones as false flag, spies warn

Robertas Kaunas, Lithuania’s defence minister, has warned that Moscow could use a ‘false flag’ attack to decrease the Western alliance’s support for Kyiv - Thierry Monasse/Getty Images Russia is ...
Science Daily

New research sheds light on a phenomenon known as 'false vacuum decay'

Scientists have produced the first experimental evidence of vacuum decay. An experiment conducted in Italy, with theory support from Newcastle University, has produced the first experimental evidence ...
MassLive

Which position will Curtis Mead play for Red Sox after trade? Chad Tracy weighs in

BOSTON — Newcomer Curtis Mead has logged hundreds of innings at the corner infield positions for the Nationals this season and just 22 at second base. In Boston, though, he appears to be the new ...
The Guardian

Trump seizes on New Jersey election error to boost misleading fraud claims

Republicans have latched on to the announcement after Trump’s lie-laden speech, but experts say DHS’s data is ‘designed to create a false argument’ Donald Trump and his allies quickly seized on an ...
Ars Technica

A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months

One missing underscore in a Skyrim-themed username put an innocent Nova Scotia man in prison for 18 months. A 2018 child-luring investigation, which began in Madison, Wisconsin, and eventually ...
The Guardian

British woman jailed in Hong Kong for blackmail after accusing banker of rape

Isabel Rose, 26, sentenced to six years for blackmail and perverting course of public justice over her allegations against British man A British woman who reported being raped to police in Hong Kong ...
NPR

Sources & Methods

National security, unlocked. Each Thursday, host Mary Louise Kelly and a team of NPR correspondents discuss the biggest national security news of the week. With decades of reporting from battlefields ...