What free will looks like in the brain
Johns Hopkins University researchers are the first to glimpse the human brain making a purely voluntary decision to act. Unlike most brain studies where scientists...
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Head partitions reduce stress in goats during feeding
Competition in the goat pen is especially high during feeding time. Social tension rises and there is an increased frequency of agonistic interactions. A significant...
How Snapdragons keep their colour: Signposting trick reveals evolutionary mechanism
Credit: Professor Enrico Coen A study of the colour patterns among wild flowers in a mountain valley has yielded a clue about how nature controls...
Queen’s University microbiologists unmask the Hannibal route enigma
Microbiologists based in the Institute for Global Food Security and School of Biological Sciences at Queen's University Belfast have recently released results that may have...
Biogerontology Research Foundation trustee to keynote at the Digital…
Credit: Digital Health World Congress Friday, November 24th, 2017, London, UK: The Biogerontology Research Foundation is pleased to announce that its Managing Trustee, Dmitry Kaminskiy,...
New method predicts who will respond to lithium therapy
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA — (March 20, 2017) For roughly one-third of people diagnosed with bipolar disorder, lithium is a miracle drug, effectively treating...
Light exposure in the evening improves performance in the final spurt
Credit: University of Basel, Department of Sport, Exercise and Health Athletes often have to compete late in the evening, when they are no longer able...
Yoga and meditation improve mind-body health and stress resilience
Many people report positive health effects from practicing yoga and meditation, and experience both mental and physical benefits from these practices. However, we still have...
New supercomputer simulations enhance understanding of protein motion and function
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Nov. 23, 2015–Supercomputing simulations at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory could change how researchers understand the internal motions of...
Jaguar scat study suggests restricted movement in areas of conservation importance in Mesoamerica
Credit: © Panthera-ICF A research group led by the American Museum of Natural History and global wild cat conservation organization Panthera has published the largest...
Study finds stark increase in opioid-related admissions, deaths in…
Credit: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center BOSTON – Since 2009, hospital intensive care units have witnessed a stark increase in opioid-related admissions and deaths, according...
How CD44s gives brain cancer a survival advantage
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Understanding the mechanisms that give cancer cells the ability to survive and grow opens the possibility of developing improved treatments...
Female fish like males who sing
Credit: The University of Gothenburg Noisier seas seem to hamper fish reproduction. A new doctoral thesis from the University of Gothenburg shows that noise pollution...
OU study demonstrates seasonality of bird migration in response to environmental cues
Credit: University of Oklahoma A University of Oklahoma study demonstrates for the first time that remote sensing data from weather surveillance radar and on-the-ground data...
How females store sperm
Credit: Image courtesy of the Graduate School of Biosphere Science, Hiroshima University. The science of breeding chickens has revealed part of the mystery of how...
