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Researchers have identified a signaling pathway that appears to be responsible for hunger. Targeting the pathway, researchers say, could be key to finding new treatments to curb obesity.

Researchers report Asian elephants appear to possess numerical abilities similar to humans.

A new study sheds light on how the brain is able to perceive our environment. Researchers say the brain has two distinct systems, one for place recognition and the other for navigation.

Researchers report deep brain stimulation has little benefit for those suffering from early onset Alzheimer's disease.

A new study reports the reward system in our brains may affect our judgments.

A single breath from a playing child can send dozens of fluffy dandelion seeds floating into the air. Now scientists find these seeds can keep themselves aloft by generating a type of vortex previously thought too unstab...

Researchers report 1 in 10 people who are heavy cannabis users experience cannabis withdrawal syndrome upon quitting.

A new study reports listeners make immediate judgments about the perceived personality of a speaker whether they hear a full sentence or just a single word.

Taking a hot bath twice a week may help relieve mild depression. It may work by resetting circadian rhythms, which are often disrupted in people with depression

Some sports and weight-loss supplements still contain experimental stimulant drugs years after the FDA prohibited them.

Skin is the body's largest organ and is the first line of defense against harm.

About 185 million years ago, a hairy, beagle-size animal celebrated motherhood by having 38 babies in the same clutch, according to a new study of the skeletal remains of both mama and babes.

Researchers have discovered a combination of drugs that not only appear to increase the lifespan of C. elegans, but also delay the rate of aging. The findings lay the groundwork for researching drug combinations that cou...

Mars gets its red colour from oxygen rusting its surface, and it may be hiding even more oxygen in underground brine, which could help microorganisms survive

Monika Aidelsburger uses a special type of optical lattice to simulate quantum many-body phenomena that are otherwise inaccessible to experimental exploration. She has now been awarded an ERC Starting Grant to pursue thi...

There's plenty of speculation about what artificial intelligence, or AI, will look like in the future, but researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) are already harnessing its power.

Scientists from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have demonstrated a surprisingly simple way of flipping a material from one state into another...

Computer bits are binary, with a value of zero or one. By contrast, neurons in the brain can have many internal states, depending on the input that they receive. This allows the brain to process information in a more ene...

The European-Japanese BepiColombo mission captured its first photo on Saturday (Oct. 20), a day after lifting off from French Guiana. The image is a selfie showing a solar array and an insulation-wrapped sun sensor.

Chocolate-colored labs may be more prone to skin conditions and ear infections than other labs

It likely wasn't a cataclysmic flood, but rather a severe drought, that killed more than 20 mammoths 67,000 years ago.

An airport detector dog named Hardy is earning praise for sniffing out the bacon, so to speak.