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Interleukin-6 interacts with leptin in the lateral parabrachial nucleus to reduce food intake. Reducing IL-6 in the IPBL increases weight gain and could help explain why some are more prone to overeating and obesity.

Current fMRI tests designed to detect deception by looking at specific areas of the brain may be vulnerable to mental countermeasures. In order to improve reliability, researchers call for whole brain analysis, rather th...

The UK's climate advisers have called on the government to effectively eliminate greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, including international flights and shipping

Females offspring whose mothers experienced maternal immune activation while pregnant displayed an array of behavioral abnormalities associated with schizophrenia.

Imagine being able to shape a pulse of light in any conceivable manner--compressing it, stretching it, splitting it in two, changing its intensity or altering the direction of its electric field.

One fish is thriving in polluted areas after mating with another species, suggesting threatened species could be saved by deliberate hybridisation

The XDREAM generative deep neural network utilizes firing rates of neurons in the visual cortex to guide the evolution of a novel, synthetic image. The evolved images activate neurons more than large numbers of natural i...

It's not always about what you discover. About seven years ago, physicist Stephane Willocq at the University of Massachusetts became enthralled with a set of theories that predicted the existence of curled-up extra dimen...

A study shows that a rise in suicide among children age 10 to 17 occurred after Netflix's 13 Reasons Why was released, but the show may not be to blame

The nearly 300 passengers and crew aboard were not allowed to disembark on the island

Lithium, the light silvery metal used in everything from pharmaceutical applications to batteries that power your smart phone or electric car, could also help harness on Earth the fusion energy that lights the sun and st...

Molecules that act like off switches for CRISPR may one day be used as a drug to make gene editing therapies safer and less likely to cause unwanted mutations

Bees seem to have a kind of collective immune system. When exposed to disease, older bees produce immunity-boosting molecules that get passed on to their young

Neurons in the anterior intraparietal cortex learn to modulate their activity to compensate for errors in brain-machine interface tasks. Findings suggest the extent to which a person can learn a new skill is constrained ...

"Climate change will affect nearly every person on the planet in the coming decades," according to Jake Fontana, a research physicist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). Our ability to reliably predict and reaso...

Internet-connected gizmos from kettles to TVs are an underestimated security risk. But the UK government's response ignores the biggest risk - ourselves, says Chris Stokel-Walker

If you're not a plasma physicist, exploding electrical wires underwater may sound like a bad idea. But it's actually a way to study shock waves, the propagating disturbances that move faster than the speed of sound.

PROVENCE, IN south-east France, is known for its pleasant weather, ratatouille and thickly wooded mountainsides. But it is also the site of what will be, if and when finished, one of the most complicated machines ever bu...

IN 1920 Arthur Eddington, an English astrophysicist, gave a lecture to the British Association for the Advancement of Science on the internal structure of stars. In it, he hypothesised that what makes the sun shine--then...

Researchers at the University of Bristol have successfully demonstrated the high thermal conductivity of a new material, paving the way for safer and more efficient electronic devices - including mobile phones, radars an...

Rangers in Australia could hardly believe their eyes when they came across a wild snake with three functioning peepers on its head.

CRISPR just hit another landmark. Last week, the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) confirmed that they have treated two cancer patients using the gene editing darling married with another biomedical wizard, CAR-T. For n...