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Self-driving cars are just around the corner, but working out the rules that should govern them is proving tricky. Should they mimic often self-interested human decision making, or be programmed to consider the greater g...

(Case Western Reserve University) With a $3.34 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health, Edward W. Yu, Ph.D., professor of pharmacology at Case Wes...

Findings from a new study shed light on how genes predispose some to becoming obese and increase diabetes risks.

A new study reveals exercises that improve cardiorespiratory fitness may help to support health by altering the presence, activity and clustering of gut bacteria.

Study reveals the hippocampus may overlay existing mental maps with information about reward and hazard derived from food found in specific locations.

For years people have been uploading videos of the blazing eruption caused by microwaving sliced grapes - but the explanations were all wrong

Rutgers and other physicists have discovered an exotic form of electrons that spin like planets and could lead to advances in lighting, solar cells, lasers and electronic displays.

Earthquakes may be dumping millions of tons of carbon into the Earth's deepest cracks. And scientists aren't sure what that means.

The "stars" in this photo aren't what you think.

(Rutgers University) Rutgers and other physicists have discovered an exotic form of electrons that spin like planets and could lead to advances in lighting, solar cells, lasers and electronic displays. It's called a 'chi...

Researchers say the new technique can help prevent transplant rejection.

A new study reveals a unique population of corticotropin releasing factor neurons in female mice that may mediate differences in stress response.

Researchers report activating the SIRT1 gene in male mice helped to reverse symptoms of depression, such as social isolation and loss of interest. The study suggests drugs that activate SIRT1 may be an effective therapy ...

Researchers report the same subset of neurons encode actual and illusory flow motion, supporting the concept Jan Purkinje proposed 150 years ago, that "illusions contain visual truth".

Showing this optical illusion to monkeys reveals it works by tricking the neurons that perceive global motion into overriding those that track local motions

Preliminary experiments suggest that a type of blood pressure drug can make it easier to un-learn fear memories, hinting at a possible treatment for PTSD

The killing was "effective and rapid" by someone who knows human anatomy "very well."

In our daily lives, we can find many examples of manipulation of reflected waves, such as mirrors, or reflective surfaces for sound that improve auditorium acoustics. When a wave impinges on a reflective surface with a c...

Researchers at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory have invented an innovative way for different types of quantum technology to "talk" to each other using sound. The study, published Feb. 11 in Natu...

Our species arrived in Europe about 43,000 years ago - and for the following 10,000 years the population remained astonishingly low

(ETH Zurich) With data and modelling from almost 8,000 coal power plants, researchers from ETH Zurich present the most comprehensive global picture to date of climate and human health impacts from coal power generation.

(University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences) A new study, published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation, establishes that the stress hormone epinephrine sets off a cascade of...