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A new study contradicts conventional assumptions that belief in free will is tied to a person's moral behavior. Researchers say free will may promote moral behavior in specific contexts, but it is not indicative of moral...

Cellular reprogramming is like the fairytale of spinning straw into gold: you take an abundant, mundane cell type, dose it with a cocktail of chemicals, and voil --now you have an unlimited supply of therapeutic cells re...

A new MRI study reveals how domestication has affected the brain morphology in rabbits, specifically in the prefrontal cortex and amygdala.

A new study reveals the same calcium signaling mechanism is required to generate specific classes of neurons in the brain.

Researchers confirm microglia, immune cells implicated in neurodegenerative disorders, play a role in protecting the central nervous system.

A new study sheds light on the stabilizing forces of amyloid fibrils associated with Alzheimer's, type 2 diabetes and other neurodegenerative disorders.

Researchers have identified a new molecular mechanism that may play a role in the development of autism.

After having its licence to operate in London revoked last year, Uber has been issued a short-term licence after agreeing to stricter government oversight

Activating a receptor found in neurons in the habenula could help treat alcohol addiction and ease withdrawal symptoms, researchers report.

Researchers report extra copies of genes on chromosome 21 increase Alzheimer's like pathology and cognitive impairment in mouse models of Down syndrome. The findings provide insight into early onset Alzheimer's in those ...

A new machine learning algorithm reveals serotonin can help speed up learning rates.

Research looking at the number of civilisations in the universe has prompted headlines saying we are the only one, but the reality is more nuanced

Researchers have scaled up a powerful fluorescence imaging technique used to study biological processes on the cellular level. Previously limited to samples just millimeters in area, the expanded approach can analyze sam...

Epidiolex has become the first drug derived from marijuana to win FDA approval in the US, and will be used to treat two forms of childhood epilepsy

Researchers report the brain's reward network could play an influential role in evaluating the opportunity to gain new information, just as it does to evaluate rewards such as food or financial gain.

Now, that's cold.

When you think of a scientist, do you imagine some lone figure, wreathed in a meticulous lab coat, furtively working late into the night, combining strange ingredients in a beaker or measuring something with a set of cal...

Quantum computers are based on the principles of quantum mechanics. Compared with classical bits, qubits can be at the superposition between zero and one, so a quantum computer composed of qubits can calculate and store ...

Russian researchers, together with their French colleagues, have discovered that a genuine feature of superconductors--quantum Abrikosov vortices of supercurrent--can also exist in an ordinary non-superconducting metal p...

Harvard University researchers are using physics to solve one of the biggest challenges in designing light-weight, long-lasting batteries: how to squeeze more energy into less space.

A team of researchers with members from IBM Research-Zurich and RWTH Aachen University has announced the development of a new PCM (phase change memory) design that offers miniaturized memory cell volume down to three nan...

These are the event displays of Large Hadron Collider physicists' dreams. Our current understanding of particle physics, known as the Standard Model, has been tremendously successful. Over the past 40 years, it has point...