Study finds that walking in nature yields measurable mental benefits and may reduce risk of depression. By Rob Jordan | Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment Feeling down? Take a hike. A new study finds […]
Study finds that walking in nature yields measurable mental benefits and may reduce risk of depression. By Rob Jordan | Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment Feeling down? Take a hike. A new study finds […]
Engineered particles are capable of producing toxins that are deadly to targeted bacteria. by Helen Knight | MIT News Office The global rise in antibiotic resistance is a growing threat to public […]
by University of Tokyo A collaboration of physicists and a mathematician has made a significant step toward unifying general relativity and quantum mechanics by explaining how spacetime emerges from quantum entanglement in […]
by University of Birmingham Researchers at the University of Birmingham have highlighted significant similarities between the behavioral effects of oxytocin and alcohol. The research, published May 20th in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, draws on […]
by Joseph Caputo | Cell Press Although scientists are confident that all modern human populations can trace their ancestry back to Africa, the route taken out of Africa is still unclear. New […]
Real-time brain scans coupled with a machine-learning algorithm can reveal whether a person has memory of a particular subject. Now, Anthony Wagner and other scientists at Stanford have shown that, with a […]
by Katie Svitil | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Earlier this year, an elite group of scientists and ethicists—including Nobel Laureate David Baltimore, president emeritus and Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Biology […]
Neuroscientists identify a brain circuit that controls decisions that induce high anxiety. by Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Some decisions arouse far more anxiety than others. Among the most anxiety-provoking are those […]
by American Chemical Society Whether they’re in a big bowl of guacamole or scooped on top of your salad, avocados enjoy a special place in our hearts and stomachs. On top of […]
by National Institutes of Natural Sciences Face perception plays an important role in social communication. There have been many studies of face perception in humans using non-invasive neuroimaging and electrophysiological methods, but studies […]
by Joseph Caputo | Cell Press Dogs’ special relationship to humans may go back 27,000 to 40,000 years, according to genomic analysis of an ancient Taimyr wolf bone reported in the Cell […]
by University of Leicester An international team of scientists led by the University of Leicester has discovered a new species of fossil in England – and identified it as an ancient parasitic intruder. […]
by Robin A. Smith | Duke University Plant hunters traveling between North America and Asia in the 1800s noticed a bizarre pattern: collections they brought back from China and Japan were strikingly […]
by Monique Patenaude | University of Rochester As social creatures, we tend to mimic each other’s posture, laughter, and other behaviors, including how we speak. Now a new study shows that people […]