What I found suggests scientists who study consciousness may have been undervaluing the most ancient regions of human brains.

What gives rise to human consciousness? Are some parts of the brain more important than others? Researchers have made progress, but the mystery of consciousness remains. https://mappingignorance.org/2025/09/24/major-theories-of-consciousness-may-have-been-focusing-on-the-wrong-part-of-the-brain/

The newer parts of the brain – as well as the cerebellum – seem to expand and refine your consciousness. This means we may have to review our theories of consciousness. https://mappingignorance.org/2025/09/24/major-theories-of-consciousness-may-have-been-focusing-on-the-wrong-part-of-the-brain/

Men with ADHD were nearly twice as likely to die during the study period as men without ADHD, while women with ADHD faced just over double the risk.  https://mappingignorance.org/2025/09/17/adults-with-adhd-lose-nearly-a-decade-of-life/

What I found suggests scientists who study consciousness may have been undervaluing the most ancient regions of human brains.

A large study recently confirmed that ADHD is associated with increased risk for many physical illnesses, particularly affecting the nervous system, heart, and lungs.

What gives rise to human consciousness? Are some parts of the brain more important than others? Researchers have made progress, but the mystery of consciousness remains. https://mappingignorance.org/2025/09/24/major-theories-of-consciousness-may-have-been-focusing-on-the-wrong-part-of-the-brain/

Attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder, known as ADHD, is the most common neurodevelopmental disorder in children worldwide, with an estimated prevalence of around 5%. 

Major theories of consciousness may have been focusing on the wrong part of the brain. https://mappingignorance.org/2025/09/24/major-theories-of-consciousness-may-have-been-focusing-on-the-wrong-part-of-the-brain/

The presence of covalent bonding helps explain why α-Pu has been observed to behave more like a brittle solid than a malleable metal. https://mappingignorance.org/2025/09/23/covalent-bonds-found-in-alpha-plutonium/

This research found a mix of bonding types, including evidence of covalent bonding, where atoms share electrons, which helps explain some of α-Pu’s larger-scale mechanical properties. 

Plutonium has an important role to play in emerging energy technologies like nuclear batteries and reactors, but it also has complicated electronic behavior that causes some intriguing effects. https://mappingignorance.org/2025/09/23/covalent-bonds-found-in-alpha-plutonium/

The presence of covalent bonding helps explain why α-Pu has been observed to behave more like a brittle solid than a malleable metal. https://mappingignorance.org/2025/09/23/covalent-bonds-found-in-alpha-plutonium/

Although species-focused efforts have played an essential role in conservation, a fundamental shift is needed to move beyond crisis-driven, reactive measures. https://mappingignorance.org/2025/09/16/biodiversity-needs-single-species-conservation/

This research found a mix of bonding types, including evidence of covalent bonding, where atoms share electrons, which helps explain some of α-Pu’s larger-scale mechanical properties. 

While current single-species conservation is costly, inefficient and biased, weak implementation doesn’t mean there’s no need for legislation.  https://mappingignorance.org/2025/09/16/biodiversity-needs-single-species-conservation/

Plutonium has an important role to play in emerging energy technologies like nuclear batteries and reactors, but it also has complicated electronic behavior that causes some intriguing effects. https://mappingignorance.org/2025/09/23/covalent-bonds-found-in-alpha-plutonium/

Single-species conservation is taking too long, failing to recognize all endangered or potentially threatened species and their habitats and suffering from biases that favour economic priorities.

Covalent bonds found in alpha plutonium. https://mappingignorance.org/2025/09/23/covalent-bonds-found-in-alpha-plutonium/

Preventing the existence of people who will never be conceived simply isn’t comparable to what we normally regard as genuine evil—depriving someone of life who already has it.

The idea is that, in the past, only a very small group of people were considered “fully dignified subjects.” Over time, that circle widened to include all human beings, and the next logical step is to extend it even further.

One of the most popular versions today of the idea that there can be moral progress is the claim, much in vogue now, that such progress takes the form of what’s often called the expansion of the circle of empathy.

Preventing the existence of people who will never be conceived simply isn’t comparable to what we normally regard as genuine evil—depriving someone of life who already has it.

While the team emphasizes that the evidence is not definitive proof of past life, the findings meet NASA’s criteria for “potential biosignatures”.

The idea is that, in the past, only a very small group of people were considered “fully dignified subjects.” Over time, that circle widened to include all human beings, and the next logical step is to extend it even further.

Although organic carbon, potentially from non-living sources, has been found on Mars before, this combination of materials could have been a rich source of energy for early microorganisms.

One of the most popular versions today of the idea that there can be moral progress is the claim, much in vogue now, that such progress takes the form of what’s often called the expansion of the circle of empathy.

A new study has revealed potential chemical signatures of ancient Martian microbial life in rocks examined by NASA’s Perseverance rover. https://mappingignorance.org/2025/09/15/mars-perseverance-rover-data-suggests-presence-of-past-microbial-life/

The brief life of longtermism (1). By @lanadanadea.bsky.social  https://mappingignorance.org/2025/09/22/the-brief-life-of-longtermism-1/

This #EHUikerketa presents the design and performance of a four-phased radiofrequency (RF) carpet system for ion transport between 200–600 mbar, significantly higher than previously demonstrated RF carpet applications. 

This #EHUikerketa characterizes the gas-phase conformational landscape of picaridin, a flexible chiral repellent with two stereocenters. 

The aim of this #EHUikerketa is to further develop this alternative by coupling the steam reforming with in situ CO2 capture, i.e., pyrolysis and in line sorption enhanced steam reforming (PY-SESR).

Three different methodologies to combine a low molecular weight epoxy resin-precursor with a styrene-acrylic copolymer in waterborne anticorrosive binders are developed and compared in this #EHUikerketa.

This #EHUikerketa studies a nonlinear mathematical model describing the relation between microbial populations and nutrient availability in glacial environments. 

This #EHUikerketa reports long-lived short-wavelength zone boundary magnons in the honeycomb AFM insulator CoTiO3, recently found to host topological magnons.

This #EHUikerketa considers an infinitely thin vortex approximation to study the vorticity reconnection process. 

This #EHUikerketa explored the combination of an ICCU strategy with the oxidative pyrolysis of lignin.

This #EHUikerketa studies a library of prepared multivalent neo-glycoproteins decorated with poly-N-acetyllactosamine and human-milk-type oligosaccharides as ligands of this underexplored family of tandem-repeat galectins. 

Pruned-ADAPT-VQE is a pragmatic refinement: it keeps the adaptive strength of ADAPT-VQE while quietly cutting the dead weight that adaptive growth can leave. 

A new paper cleans up the growing trial wavefunction used in a popular hybrid quantum algorithm so the final quantum circuits are smaller but just as accurate. https://mappingignorance.org/2025/09/18/pruning-the-quantum-jungle/

Quantum computers promise to change how we calculate the behavior of electrons in molecules, but for the machines we have now the challenge is to squeeze the most chemistry out of the least quantum hardware. 

Pruned-ADAPT-VQE is a pragmatic refinement: it keeps the adaptive strength of ADAPT-VQE while quietly cutting the dead weight that adaptive growth can leave. 

By introducing the concept of polaritonic Fourier crystals, the authors have provided a new paradigm for manipulating light–matter hybrids at the nanoscale. 

A new paper cleans up the growing trial wavefunction used in a popular hybrid quantum algorithm so the final quantum circuits are smaller but just as accurate. https://mappingignorance.org/2025/09/18/pruning-the-quantum-jungle/

Because polaritons in hBN are very sensitive to this distance, their momentum becomes periodically modulated in a way described mathematically by Fourier harmonics. 

Quantum computers promise to change how we calculate the behavior of electrons in molecules, but for the machines we have now the challenge is to squeeze the most chemistry out of the least quantum hardware. 

When a thin slab of hBN is placed on top of this “Fourier surface,” the distance between the hBN and the gold mirror varies smoothly in space. https://mappingignorance.org/2025/09/11/smooth-fourier-crystals-taming-polaritons-for-nanoscale-light-control/

Pruning the quantum jungle. https://mappingignorance.org/2025/09/18/pruning-the-quantum-jungle/

Men with ADHD were nearly twice as likely to die during the study period as men without ADHD, while women with ADHD faced just over double the risk.  https://mappingignorance.org/2025/09/17/adults-with-adhd-lose-nearly-a-decade-of-life/

A large study recently confirmed that ADHD is associated with increased risk for many physical illnesses, particularly affecting the nervous system, heart, and lungs.