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Study reveals liberals and conservatives feel certain violations of moral concerns, such as loyalty and purity, in different areas of their bodies.

Children who experience elevated prenatal exposure to air pollution and exposure to early life stress have an increased risk of developing both attention problems and cognitive difficulties.

Musical anhedonia, a neurological condition where people don't enjoy music, affects 5% of the population. Researchers are exploring if this same condition could also be what impairs social bonding for some people on the ...

Exposing subjects to music composed in an unfamiliar scale, researchers test whether reward can be derived solely from newly formed predictions.

Neutron spectroscopy is an important tool for studying magnetic and thermoelectric properties in materials. But often the resolution, or the ability of the instrument to see fine details, is too coarse to clearly observe...

CALCR, a type of neuron found in the medulla of mice, may hold the key to the development of drugs that can effectively curb overeating and fight obesity in humans.

BIOTECH Meet Xenobot, an Eerie New Kind of Programmable Organism Matt Simon | Wired “A xenobot is a one-of-a-kind organism: It's both a living thing made of living cells and a machine that the researchers can program t...

Noncommunicable diseases cannot pass between people -- or can they?

A molecule shaped like a bow tie changes colour in the presence of toxic chemicals, which could make it useful for monitoring air