A new study suggests that in the Spanish Habsburg royal family, natural selection may have diminished the most harmful effects of inbreeding.
A new study suggests that in the Spanish Habsburg royal family, natural selection may have diminished the most harmful effects of inbreeding.
Researchers are identifying distinctive brain activity patterns that can be used to monitor patients under anesthesia and assess consciousness in “vegetative” patients.
A newly developed drug, modeled after a bacteria-infecting virus, is less likely to become antibiotic resistant.
A new study blames the unreliable nature of some research in the field on underpowered statistical analyses.
Just the flavor of beer is enough to boost dopamine in brain areas related to reward—especially in men with alcoholic relatives.
Today’s tulip trees carry similar mitochondrial DNA as those that grew in the time of the dinosaurs.
Mutations tied to autism in mice lead to deficits in the signaling pathway activated by marijuana.
Fossilized skeletal remains of the hominid Australopithecus sediba add to the puzzle of human evolution.
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Starting in 2014, the federally funded initiative will seek to develop new technologies capable of mapping the activity in the human brain.