"We think we can make something better or find out what is going on in this interesting area if we try a bunch of things and apply several sophisticated techniques to study this." These proposals are ...

The results of a study in mice by scientists at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and at the Nathan Kline Institute suggest that a breakdown in how brain cells rid themselves of waste precedes the build ...

In his bestselling 2005 book Collapse, Jared Diamond offered the societal collapse of Easter Island (aka Rapa Nui), around 1600, as a cautionary tale. Diamond essentially argued that the destruction ...

Recent speculations propose that nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (AChRs) may serve as additional receptors for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) to the host cells – also ...

A language model the researchers named the “Ontologist” is tasked with defining scientific terms in the papers and examining the connections between them, fleshing out the knowledge graph. Crafting a ...

The "hygiene hypothesis" suggests exposure to diverse types of microbes may protect against developing diseases caused by allergens, but a new study in mice reveals that adults' exposure to diverse ...

As I’ve discussed previously, conventional wisdom suggests that using social media promotes poor mental health, especially in teenagers. But there is good reason to question this idea. As more ...

Human cravings for booze may have deep evolutionary roots, a new study has shown. The study, published in Science Advances, involved observing the eating behaviors of chimpanzees—"our closest living ...

The first primate to look like modern humans, Homo sapiens that is, was Homo erectus, an ancient hominin that evolved in Africa about 2 million years ago. H. erectus was taller than the archaic ...

"We think we can make something better or find out what is going on in this interesting area if we try a bunch of things and apply several sophisticated techniques to study this." These proposals are ...