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(George Washington University) The study published in the Journal of Neuroscience suggests the thalamus controls the development of state dependency and continuity.

Researchers report becoming overweight at an early age can trigger the early onset of puberty in females.

RUDN mathematicians analyzed the properties of gravitational waves in a generalized affine-metrical space (an algebraic construction operating on the notions of a vector and a point) similarly to the properties of electr...

Researchers are testing whether a light-active version of heme, the molecule responsible for transporting oxygen in blood circulation, may help people infected with MRSA. Photodynamic therapy, or PDT, involves a compound...

Mast cells, an important group of immune cells typically associated with allergies, actually enable the body to survive fasting or intense exercise, new research shows.

Scientists have created a 'window' into the brain, which enables researchers to watch in incredible detail how human brain cells develop and connect to each other in real time.

For adults over age 65, surgical complications can dampen not only their physical health but also their mental sharpness, with more than half of high-risk cases declining into delirium. New research shows a current treat...

Researchers have identified a molecule that plays a key role in bacterial communication and infection. Their findings add a new word to pneumococcus' molecular dictionary and may lead to novel ways to manipulate the bact...

Researchers are reporting ways in which using genetic ancestry databases to solve crimes could potentially be expanded.

Researchers were able to produce healthy mice with two mothers that went on to have normal offspring of their own. Mice from two dads were also born but only survived for a couple of days. The work looks at what makes it...

Biologists grew human retina tissue from scratch to determine how cells that allow people to see in color are made.

With the development of an adaptive, multi-view light sheet microscope and a suite of computational tools, researchers have captured the first view of early organ development inside the mouse embryo.

An antimicrobial signaling molecule called interferon lambda 4 has lower activity against the hepatitis C virus in the vast majority of humans compared with chimpanzees and African hunter-gatherer Pygmies, according to a...

About 85 million years ago, when a vast sea covered Kansas, a wee, little sea monster died almost immediately after it was born.

(The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences) With the aid of simple theoretical models it is possible to build systems operating strictly according to the rules of classical physic...

(University of Delaware) What if your theory to model and predict the electronic structure of atoms isn't accounting for dispersion energy? You come up with some 'fudge factors' to make it all work. But getting the right...

(American Chemical Society) Tardigrades are tiny animals that can live in water droplets just about anywhere. When those water droplets dry out, tardigrades undergo an astonishing transformation to survive the lack of wa...

Countries need to start a massive programme of retrofitting old homes to make them carbon neutral if the world is to meet the global emission reduction target

Researchers have successfully transplanted human brain cells into mouse brains and watched how they grow to form networks. The technique could be used to study a range of neurological conditions, the researchers report.

Researchers have developed new techniques which are able to diagnose Lyme disease bacteria weeks sooner than currently available tests.

A note the physicist wrote in 1954 reveals his thinking on religion and science --

Researchers have made a surprise discovery that could help provide treatment options for a range of conditions from Parkinson's disease to depression. Researching how to transform supportive brain cells into neurons, the...