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Human and non-human primate studies show that in adolescence, a time of increased reactive behavior, self control is limited. A juvenile rhesus macaque...

A team of researchers from Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine has used a modified version of the boron dipyrromethene (BODIPY) molecular rotor...

Australopithecus anamensis is the earliest-known species in the genus Australopithecus. The species is widely accepted as the ancestor of Lucy’s species,...

According to a study published in the journal eNeuro (bioRxiv.org preprint), changes in vibration-sensitive neurons may equip forager honeybees for waggle...

People with higher optimism are more likely to live longer and to achieve ‘exceptional longevity,’ that is, living to the age of 85 or beyond, according...

Many of us know that feeling of waking up, headache in tow, struggling to remember what we said and did after that extra drink the night before. And then...

Astrocytes, long considered to be passive elements in the brain, are required to establish long-lasting memories, according to a study in mice. Astrocytes...

A team of researchers from Trinity College Dublin and the Universität Mainz has developed the world’s smallest engine. The nanoscale heat engine. Image...

Short-term and intermittent fasting reduces chronic inflammation and improves chronic inflammatory diseases without affecting the immune system’s response...

An international team of scientists has found alterations of task-based functional brain connectivity in a group of astronauts after a long-duration spaceflight....

A collection of stone artifacts unearthed at the archaeological site of Tolbor-16 in the northern Khangai Mountains of Mongolia indicates that anatomically...

A team of scientists at Karolinska Institutet has discovered a previously unknown meshlike organ in the skin that is sensitive to painful mechanical damage,...

A team of researchers from the University of Oxford and IBM Research-Zürich has, for the first time, synthesized and characterized a ring of 18 carbon...

Exostoses of the ear canal — more commonly called swimmer’s ear — were surprisingly common in Neanderthals, according to new research by...

In a new study, an international team of researchers analyzed data from the Danish Diet, Cancer and Health cohort that monitored the diets of 53,048 Danes...

A team of researchers at the University of Leeds, UK, has created gold nanosheets with a thickness of only 0.47 nm (two atomic layers thick) — the...

People who are the most optimistic tend to sleep better and longer, according to a new study published in the journal Behavioral Medicine. Hernandez et...

In a new study, Dr. Casey Rebholz from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and colleagues examined the diets of middle-aged adults living...

Earth’s magnetic field is produced in the planet’s liquid iron outer core as it spins around the solid inner core, and protects the surface from harmful...