Key Brain Circuit Controls Individual Responses to Temptation
Differences in how individual rats respond to ‘reward cues’, which have been linked to compulsive behaviors such as substance abuse and overeating, can be traced…
Differences in how individual rats respond to ‘reward cues’, which have been linked to compulsive behaviors such as substance abuse and overeating, can be traced…
Golf ball-size clods of weathered crude oil originating from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon catastrophe could remain buried in sandy Gulf Coast beaches for decades, according…
A newly identified species of pterosaur is among the largest ever flying animals, according to a study from Queen Mary University of London. Cryodrakon boreas,…
The creature is similar to the largest pterosaurs known. Key characteristics were gleaned from a cache of bones unearthed in Canada. A USC scientist and…
New findings from University of Kansas experimental nuclear physicists Daniel Tapia Takaki and Aleksandr (Sasha) Bylinkin were just published in the European Physical Journal C….
Volcanic eruptions and their ash clouds pose a significant hazard to population centers and air travel, especially those that show few to no signs of…
Many people struggle to keep their weight in check as they get older. Now new research at Karolinska Institutet has uncovered why that is: Lipid…
They say love is blind, but if you’re a queen honeybee it could mean true loss of sight. New research finds male honeybees inject toxins…
When the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs slammed into the planet, the impact set wildfires, triggered tsunamis, and blasted so much sulfur into the…
More than 1,125,000 men around the world have the inherited bleeding disorder. More than 1,125,000 men around the world have the inherited bleeding disorder of…
Listening to and remembering music involve different cognitive processes. Scientists have observed how the human brain represents a familiar piece of music, according to research…
The amino acids, a fundamental set of life’s building blocks, may have been adaptive throughout their evolution, suggesting a possible universal biological language. An international…
Study in mice first to connect genes, flu, and cardiovascular problems. People with severe flu sometimes develop life-threatening heart problems, even when their hearts have…
Sexually transmitted infections, or STIs, pose a significant public health challenge. Globally, more than one million new STI cases are diagnosed each day. In a…
Using radar data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, recently published research presents a new scenario to explain why some methane-filled lakes on Saturn’s moon Titan are…
A study identifies dozens of new carbon structures that are expected to be superhard, including some that may be about as hard as diamonds. Superhard…
Researchers at the Universities of Abuja and Nigeria, in collaboration with the University of Bristol, have detected a potentially human-infective microbe in pet dogs in…
A team of scientists has concluded that earth experienced a previously underestimated severe mass-extinction event, which occurred about 260 million years ago, raising the total…