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Neuroimaging reveals the higher density of cells in the nucleus accumbens is associated with a larger waist circumference in children.

Jet lag alters the microenvironment around cancerous tumor cells, making it more favorable for tumors to grow, and hinders the body's natural immune response.

STAT3 plays a crucial role in the serotonergic system as a molecular mediator for controlling emotional reactivity. The findings establish a link between the immune system, serotonergic transmission, and affective disord...

Catastrophic events hog the climate limelight but there are more understated effects that demand attention too, says Hannah Cloke

Changing where you keep your money could reduce your carbon footprint by up to 27 times more than giving up flying or going vegan, writes Graham Lawton

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The wreck of a German steamship sunk at the end of World War II has been found by divers, -- and the crates on board the submerged vessel could hold a prize treasure: the precious furnishings of the lost 18th century Amb...

A study of 82 bacula, the bones found in the penis of most male mammals, suggests that they may be used to displace sperm from another male already in a female's reproductive tract

We only ever experience three spatial dimensions, but quantum lab experiments suggest a whole new side to reality - weird particle apparitions included

A material that can transmit electrical current with zero resistance at room temperature has finally been created - but it currently requires a pressure close to that at the centre of Earth

In the 1940s, agronomist Norman Borlaug was tasked by the US government with improving the yield of wheat plants in Mexico. The thinking was that if America's southern neighbor had better food security, relations between...

(Purdue University) Purdue University innovators have created a new method of applying machine learning concepts to the tandem mass spectrometry process to improve the flow of information in the development of new drugs.

Girls who are abused in early life have higher levels of inflammation than boys who are maltreated and other children who did not experience abuse.

New artificial intelligence technology will analyze clinical data, brain images, and genetic information from Alzheimer's patients to look for new biomarkers associated with the neurodegenerative disease.

Some 4 billion years ago, the moon may have had a magnetic field that combined with Earth's to create a powerful magnetic shield that protected our planet's atmosphere

Named for its elephants, Ivory Coast once had one of the largest elephant populations in West Africa. Now there are just hundreds left

Parkinson's patients carrying mutations in PINK1 and Parkin genes have increased levels of circulating interleukin 6 and mitochondrial DNA. The findings strengthen a link between genetic risk factors from Parkinson's dis...

How a rural Mexican village built its own phone network

Filler words such as uh, mmm and huh may seem inarticulate, but without them human communication would be far less sophisticated

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A compound of hydrogen, carbon and sulfur has broken a symbolic barrier—but its high pressure conditions make it difficult to analyze --

Ancient marine beasts used to swim in what is now Egypt's Eastern Desert.