News Articles

Understanding which brain circuits respond to weight loss medications and how they behave could lead to better weight loss with fewer side effects.

Scientists have reported that an experimental vaccine targeting one of the most common genetic drivers of pancreatic cancer, called mutant KRAS, is safe and generated a durable immune responses aimed at preventing the cancer.

In the 1980s, scientists captured the precise mechanics of a protein machine. It looked strange, to researchers its tall thin structure with stubby legs invoked the enchanted broomstick that stole the show in "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" segment of Disney's 1940 Fantasia film.

After decades of public safety campaigns focused on drinking and driving, it may be time to focus on the seventh leading cause of injury-related death, according to Bureau of Occupational Health and Injury Prevention at New York State Department of Health and Columbia University scholars looking at New York State.

We're bombarded with information at all times, so much that if we had to try and process it all times, we'd be paralyzed. Our cerebellum does information damage control by filtering out what changes. Evolution made it possible for us to conserve energy while still processing anomalies quickly.

If you see multiple graves in medieval graves, it is reasonable to assume children and adults were related, but a new study finds that was not the case.

More men than women develop Parkinson’s disease and new work presented at the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies says that it is do to sex differences in how brain cells change. Parkinson’s disease affects about 9 million people and becomes increasingly prevalent with age.

Hepatectomy is surgery in which part of the liver is removed, generally to treat liver cancer or harvest a portion of the liver for a transplant.

All living great apes laugh, and of course humans do as well.

Not many humans have died from the venom of the species of blue-ringed octopuses in the genus Hapalochlaena despite them living in tide pools from Japan to Australia, but all of the deaths had to be memorable. Because Hapalochlaena venom only paralyzes voluntary muscles.

In the last 50 years, Canada's Long Point Bird Observatory has seen a decline of insects by over 60 percent and it took a U.S. university to sound the alarm. The impact, the authors of a new paper believe, is smaller birds and less breeding success.

Scientists studying the inner main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson, believed to be a member of the Erigone asteroid family, have found that its rotation wobbles.