Ayahuasca is a beverage that has been used for centuries by Native South-Americans. Studies suggest that it exhibits anxiolytic and antidepressant effects in humans. One...
Credit: University of Warwick Around 50% of us are susceptible to believing we've experienced fictitious events, University of Warwick research finds False memory study included...
Credit: Troy Ghashghaei New research from North Carolina State University shows that neurons generated at different life stages in mice can impact aspects of their...
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- An enzyme that converts the dietary carotenoid beta carotene into vitamin A in the body may...
In 2014, the number of deaths from opioid overdoses in the U.S. jumped to its highest level on record. The spike brought national attention to...
Credit: S. Dorbolo/University of Liege WASHINGTON, D.C., December 7, 2016 -- Resembling the Leidenfrost effect seen in rapidly boiling water droplets, a disk of ice...
LUGANO-SINGAPORE, 7th December, 2016 - Pain relief and other forms of supportive care for cancer patients are insufficient, researchers report at the ESMO ASIA 2016...
Credit: IASLC Vienna, Austria--December 7, 2016--Today's press briefing at the IASLC 17th World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC) focused on clinical trials that advance the...
Credit: Public Domain Polyalcohols are widely used in the food industry, especially in candy and gum because they bring the sweet without the risk of...
(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) The quality of life of elderly myocardial infarction patients can be significantly improved without extra...
Relaxing with a joint around children is not very wise. Not only do youngsters inhale harmful secondary smoke in the process, but the psychoactive chemicals...
Credit: University of Huddersfield NO case of necrophilia has ever come before UK courts, although British awareness of the offence is high - and was...
Through a process called phytoremediation, researchers are using plants to clean up land contaminated with TNT, a toxic environmental pollutant and possible carcinogen. Now a...
(Ruhr-University Bochum) Seeing, smelling, tasting, regulation of blood pressure -- molecular switches are involved in all of these processes. The mechanism with which these proteins...
Credit: Springer Springer now offers its Springer Book Archives (SBA) in smaller year set packages. The new SBA packages are divided up into "eras," and...
