In this humorous, detailed, yet still accessible book, neuroscientist and illustrator Matteo Farinella takes the reader on a wild ride through key figures and fascinating facts about each of our five ...

When I started my garden last year, I was excited to start digging into the soil at my new home, to pull weeds and plant tomatoes, cucumbers, and peppers. What I wasn’t ready for was what I found in ...

Kathryn Paige Harden’s book tries to demonstrate how genetics can ameliorate societal ills. She falls well, well short The last decade has seen genetics and evolution grapple with its history; one ...

Like serotonin, psychedelic drugs can also activate the 5HT-2A receptor and reduce inflammation.This new study, which was published in ACS Pharmacology & Translational Science, shows what molecular ...

This finding is not entirely surprising: high levels of ground-level ozone can damage the respiratory system of birds and also influence them into changing habitat conditions. What is surprising is ...

Central auditory processing disorder (APD), a hearing disability, can impact cognitive functioning and academic performance in those who experience it. It is typically diagnosed in childhood. Children ...

Receiving the vaccine has turned from a health to a political affair as the remaining population voluntarily refuses to get vaccinated. This voluntary refusal puts themselves, the community, and ...

Animals are crucial for neuroscience research. Many important discoveries have been made by studying the brains and cells of different animals. For example, we learned how the brain encodes ...

Central auditory processing disorder (APD), a hearing disability, can impact cognitive functioning and academic performance in those who experience it. It is typically diagnosed in childhood. Children ...

Where you sleep is important. If you’re like me, you like to sleep where you’re safe, comfortable, and with a full stomach. Northern pigtailed macaques (Macaca leonina), found in southeast Asia, have ...

CRISPR-Cas9 is the most precise and efficient gene editing system that exists. Now, researchers working with golden rice are focused on developing a Cas9 system that can insert a desired gene, rather ...

Bonded by rejection and by being physicists who were also widows of physicists (William Ayrton died in 1908), the two women formed a fast friendship and spent summers together with their children on ...