Gorillas and orangutans may be economically rational but also have pre-existing cognitive biases, according to risk-based decision making experiments.Credit: M. Torben Weber, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)...
When patients undergo any type of surgery after having had COVID, their odds of significant postoperative problems diminish with elapsed time from COVID diagnosis.Credit: Vanderbilt...
One of the most dramatic phases of fetal development occurs as previously unstructured collections of rapidly dividing precursor cells begin forming the embryo’s spine.Credit: Cincinnati...
The global prevalence of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is estimated to be > 25% and will continue to rise. NAFLD comprises a spectrum of...
A new way to study quarks, one of the building blocks of the protons and neutrons that make up atomic nuclei, is proposed. This has...
Laser makes water behave like a high-speed switchCredit: © Adrian Buchmann Laser makes water behave like a high-speed switch All the operations of computers and...
A team led by Prof. JIANG Bin from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) made a series of breakthroughs in chemical dynamics...
A single particle has no temperature. It has a certain energy or a certain speed - but it is not possible to translate that into...
Muscles are made up of proteins. Myosin, a fibrous protein, serves as a molecular motor and converts the chemical energy stored inside our body into...
Herds of megafauna, such as mammoth and bison, have roamed the prehistoric plains in what is today's Central Europe for several tens of thousands of...
Training individuals to inhibit imitation of others increases empathy and allows them to recognize facial expressions in others regardless of their situations.Credit: Masaki O. Abe...
SARS-COV-2, or COVID-19 as we now know it, was first officially reported in December 2019. It would soon go on to become humanity’s worst pandemic...
Nature uses 20 canonical amino acids as building blocks to make proteins, combining their sequences to create complex molecules that perform biological functions.Credit: Courtesy of...
Researchers from Florida Atlantic University’s Schmidt College of Medicine, in collaboration with Albany Medical College (AMC) in New York, are among seven institutions nationwide selected...
A Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) research team has developed novel compounds that show early promise at fighting the rare pediatric cancer neuroblastoma when...
