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INTRODUCTION: Aging is associated with reduced accuracy in recognizing others' emotions, an ability that is important for maintaining social connectedness in later life. Laughter is a social signal with multiple functions, as it can facilitate social bonding but also convey negative social meanings, for example when directed at someone. In previous research we have shown that younger adults are able to classify spontaneously emitted joyful, schadenfreude, and tickling laughter above chance...

CONCLUSION: Conclusion: Fallers presented more depressive symptoms, morbidities, polypharmacy, and worse subjective health status. Depressive symptoms do not act directly over the number of falls; nonetheless, those with depressive symptoms presented a higher chance of falling, which may be associated to slower reaction time. Psychological symptoms play an important role in falls, and should, therefore, be considered in identifying older people at risk and in developing prevention programs.

Orbiting data centers and sunlight reflectors would scupper astronomy by leaving streaks on telescope images and brightening skies, study finds

What if Sigmund Freud was onto something that modern neuroscience is only now beginning to explain? A new paper argues that today's leading theory of the brain—as a prediction machine constantly anticipating the world—closely mirrors ideas psychoanalysis has explored for more than a century.