Elderly people are worse at spotting untrustworthy faces, possibly due to decreased activity in the brain region associated with such perceptions.
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Laurent Descarries, well known for his research on the brain’s axon terminals, has passed away at the age of 73.
Rodents experience placebo-induced pain relief, providing a new model with which to investigate the phenomenon.
A type of scallop expels water and waste through a sort of cough that could reveal clues about water quality.
Using satellite data, researchers calculate that mountain pine beetle infestations raise summertime temperatures in British Columbia’s pine forests by 1 degree Celsius.
Lab inspection reports and internal documents reveal incidents involving the mistreatment of research animals at the University of California, San Francisco.
Neighboring neurons in an insect’s antennae can block each other without sharing any synaptic connections.
The World Meteorological Organization finds that the atmospheric gases behind climate change reached a new record high in 2011.
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