Example of a congruent and an incongruent picture-word Stroop. Credit: UC Davis HealthAccording to a UC Davis study, adolescents and young adults with...
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Schizophrenia: When the thalamus misleads the ear
Diagram of the brain and thalamus. The green arrows represent the nerve connections between the two nuclei of the thalamus and the auditory cortex and...
Study ties stroke-related brain blood vessel abnormality to gut bacteria
An NIH funded study found a link between the appearance of abnormal, stroke-inducing blood vessel bundles, called cavernous angiomas, and the composit...
Study identifies the mechanism by which eating fish reduces risk of cardiovascular disease
Credit: CC0 Public DomainA study by researchers from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) and Harvard Medical School has found that consuming omega ...
Eat less and live a long healthy life? Study shows 'not in all cases'
Each of the analyzed fly strains arranged by response to dietary restriction. The overlapping bars show the increase or decrease in lifespan (grey bar...
A clue as to why it's so hard to wake up on a cold winter's morning
Drosophila melanogaster. Credit: Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 2.5Winter may be behind us, but do you remember the challenge of waking up on those cold, dark day...
Honeywell claims it has built the most powerful quantum computer ever
Inside the vacuum chamber that houses the qubits in Honeywell’s quantum computerHoneywell International Inc.Honeywell, a company best known for making...
Diabetics break bones easily – new research is figuring out why their bones are so fragile
Bone samples from cadavers were incubated in sugar solutions at body temperature. Credit: Taraneh Rezaee, CC BYA person with Type 2 diabetes is three ...
Exclusive: Bizarre Spinosaurus makes history as first known swimming dinosaur
CASABLANCA, MOROCCO – At the end of a dim hallway in Casablanca’s Université Hassan II, I’ve walked into a dusty room containing a remarkable set of f...