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Practice thought to be good for health and to lower risk of lifestyle diseases Leaving a two-hour gap between the last meal of the day and bedtime doesn't seem to be associated with any discernible difference in blood glucose levels among…

Ancient eel-like creature answers questions about when these bizarre fish branched off the evolutionary tree from other vertebratesCredit: Tetsuto Miyashita, University of Chicago. Paleontologists at the University of Chicago have…

Credit: Kenichi Tsuda Unlike animals, plants cannot move freely to escape from life-threatening conditions. This constraint means that they require strategies to protect themselves against the diverse stresses they encounter in their…

Credit: Dr. Vadim Axelrod Imagine a world where everyone has the same face. That would be a very different world than the one we know. In our world, in which faces are different, faces convey essential information. For example, most of…

Credit: Thor Balkhed/Linköping University Our brains seem to reduce sensory perception from an area of our skin when we touch it ourselves, according to a new study from Linköping University published in the journal Proceedings of the…

Education, job complexity and intellectual activities play only minor roles Early adult general cognitive ability (GCA) -- the diverse set of skills involved in thinking, such as reasoning, memory and perception -- is a stronger predictor…

Southwest part of the island could be major contributor to sea level rise COLUMBUS, Ohio - Greenland is melting faster than scientists previously thought--and will likely lead to faster sea level rise--thanks to the continued, accelerating…

Life experience may be transmitted from one generation to the next through changes in gene expression, parental caretakingCredit: Kalogeraki, Yusifov, and Löwel, eNeuro (2019) Mice growing up in a basic cage maintain lifelong visual cortex…

Approach reduces seizures by 93 percent in three monthsCredit: Giovanna Paolone A protein-secreting device implanted into the hippocampus of epileptic rats reduces seizures by 93 percent in three months, finds preclinical research…

New animal model could improve understanding of post-traumatic epilepsyCredit: Alexys Harrington Researchers have identified a cellular response to repeated concussions that may contribute to seizures in mice like those observed following…