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Obesity is associated with increased blood concentrations of the anorexigenic hormone leptin; however, obese individuals are resistant to its anorexigenic...

A study led by the Universities of Rochester and Washington shows that on average, men pick up on visual motion significantly faster than women do. Men...

Children who are regularly engaged in conversation by adults may have stronger connections between Wernicke’s and Broca’s areas — brain regions...

A team of researchers headed by University of British Columbia scientist Stephen Withers reports on enzymes — from the human gut — that remove...

Saliva is necessary for digestion. It lubricates the throat to make swallowing easier and contains chemicals that break down food. It also assists with...

A new study, published in the journal Nature Communications, has demonstrated that sleep-deprived individuals feel lonelier and less inclined to engage...

A new study led by Francis Crick Institute researchers shows that mice fed on a diet rich in indole-3-carbinol (I3C) — a secondary plant metabolite...

A new study published in the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience has found a link between vocal repertoire and relative size of key regions of the brain. Dr....

Sodium (a component of table salt) intake is associated with cardiovascular disease and strokes only in communities where mean intake is greater than 5...

Aging is characterized by a progressive decline of physiological function accompanied by increased incidence of age-related disease. The accumulation of...

A study led by Bocconi University’s Professor Francesco Billari has found that high-speed Internet access causally reduces sleep duration and satisfaction. Billari...

Children with IgE-mediated allergies have a lower risk of complicated appendicitis, according to new research published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics. In...

Researchers at Rutgers University-New Brunswick have created a wearable microfluidic impedance cytometer with a wireless connection to smartphones. Their...

A team of researchers from Duke and Rockefeller Universities has found that individual neurons can encode information about multiple stimuli simultaneously,...

According to new research published in the journal Radiology, women’s brains are more vulnerable than men’s to injury from repeated soccer heading....

Modern pygmies living in a village near the Liang Bua cave on the Indonesian island of Flores, where fossils of the dwarfed human species Homo floresiensis...

Two independent teams of scientists have identified a rare cell type in airway tissue — previously uncharacterized in the literature — that...

A swallowable gas-sensing capsule (about the size of a vitamin pill) developed by RMIT University, in collaboration with Monash University and Atmo Bioscience,...

A new study led by SUNY University at Buffalo researcher Leah Panek-Shirley found that after drinking a small amount of caffeine, participants consumed...

The Earth’s oceans lock away atmospheric carbon dioxide, but a ‘leak’ in the Southern Ocean, which surrounds Antarctica, brings the greenhouse gas...