New libel laws for England and Wales should help protect scientific debate, but campaigners worry that legal costs remain a threat.
New libel laws for England and Wales should help protect scientific debate, but campaigners worry that legal costs remain a threat.
The journal is sharpening its review of life science papers and giving authors additional space to document more detailed methods.
A new study of brain activity patterns suggests that babies as young as 5 months old have the neural mechanisms to register that they’ve seen a face.
Measuring consciousness; unethical data splitting; the deliciousness of beer; autism mutations linked to cannabinoid signaling; arming animals against electron microscopes
Researchers are identifying distinctive brain activity patterns that can be used to monitor patients under anesthesia and assess consciousness in “vegetative” patients.
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.
Mutations tied to autism in mice lead to deficits in the signaling pathway activated by marijuana.
A study concludes that the open access repository is decreasing biomedical journal readership.
Starting in 2014, the federally funded initiative will seek to develop new technologies capable of mapping the activity in the human brain.