A human controller influences the turtle's escape behavior by sending left and right signals via Wi-Fi to a control system on the back of the turtle. Credit: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) Korean researchers have developed a technology...
Verena Schuenemann at the Palaeogenetics Laboratory, University of Tuebingen. Credit: Johannes Krause An international team of scientists, led by researchers from the University of Tuebingen and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, successfully recovered and...
E-cigarettes can contain nicotine but not many of the harmful substances produced by smoking tobacco, such as tar or carbon monoxide. These products work through an inhalation-activated system that heats a solution to create an inhalable aerosol, often known...
An analysis of over 40,000 commonly available packaged foods and beverages in Canada has found that 66 per cent of these products -- including some infant formulas and baby food products and many so-called 'healthier' foods such as yogurt,...
Image credit: © andrein/ Flickr Using archival documents, a new report published online by JAMA Internal Medicine examines the sugar industry's role in coronary heart disease research and suggests the industry sponsored research to influence the scientific debate to cast...
Hormone replacement therapies, or medications containing female hormones, may help cancer to spread. Credit: © Ivelin Radkov / Fotolia Hormone replacement therapies, or medications containing female hormones that substitute those no longer produced by the body, often are prescribed to reduce...
Adam Goldfarb, MD, (left) and Kamal Elagib, MBBS, PhD, examine the effects of flipping the "master switch" they discovered. One set of cells displays characteristics of infantile megakaryocytes, while the other displays characteristics of adult megakaryocytes. The ability to...
A small study provides further evidence that Zika virus infection in the first trimester of pregnancy can result in placental and fetal damage and loss, and early insight into the effect of Zika virus infection on fetuses. Credit: © farland9...
Researchers gave 17 individuals auditory memory tasks that required them to recognize a pattern of tones when it was reversed, while being recorded on MEG and EEG. Credit: Philippe Albouy The ability to remember sounds, and manipulate them in our minds,...
What Our Wandering Thoughts Can Teach Us About Mental Health University of Arizona researchers analyzed idle thoughts for 10 minutes. What they learned may be useful in the diagnosis and treatment of mental health issues such as depression. ...
An MIT study of the neural circuits that underlie memory process reveals, for the first time, that memories are formed simultaneously in the hippocampus and the long-term storage location in the brain’s cortex. This image shows memory engram cells...