Sep 5, 2018 by News Staff

New research from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Trento finds that 21-month-old infants can distinguish between two...

Sep 4, 2018 by News Staff

New research published in the journal PeerJ demonstrates that a technique used to produce ‘Late Acheulean’ handaxes is likely to have needed a modern...

Sep 4, 2018 by News Staff

A new study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science provides the first evidence of how goats (Capra aegagrus hircus) read human emotional expressions. Nawroth...

Sep 4, 2018 by News Staff

A team of scientists from Germany, Taiwan and the United States has demonstrated that antibodies to a toxin secreted from Cutibacterium acnes bacteria...

Aug 31, 2018 by News Staff

An international group of scientists from Japan and Australia has identified two essential genes involved in the regulation of rapid eye movement (REM)...

Aug 30, 2018 by News Staff

A new radiation sensor developed by Purdue University researchers is a wearable, disposable, film-type device fabricated on a paper substrate with cells...

Aug 30, 2018 by News Staff

In a large brain imaging study published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, a team of neuroscientists and psychiatrists evaluated over 60,000 brain...

Aug 29, 2018 by News Staff

An international team of neuroscientists from the United States and Hungary has uncovered a new type of human brain cell that has never been seen in mice...

Aug 28, 2018 by News Staff

Alcohol use is a leading risk factor for global disease burden and causes substantial health loss. A new study has found that the risk of all-cause mortality,...

Aug 27, 2018 by News Staff

A team of scientists at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia, has identified a new anatomical structure within the human immune system....

Aug 24, 2018 by News Staff

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

Aug 22, 2018 by News Staff

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...

Aug 22, 2018 by News Staff

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

Aug 21, 2018 by News Staff

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

Aug 20, 2018 by News Staff

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

Aug 17, 2018 by News Staff

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

Aug 15, 2018 by News Staff

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...

Aug 14, 2018 by News Staff

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....

Aug 13, 2018 by News Staff

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

Aug 10, 2018 by News Staff

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