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As researchers unravel the molecular machinery that links exercise and cognition, working out is emerging as a promising neurotherapy.

Imaging, behavioral, and genetic data yield clues to what’s behind effective thinking.

Becoming a neuroscientist with a service dog by your side presents numerous challenges. Joey Ramp, who went back to college to study her own post-traumatic stress disorder, is learning this the hard way.

The neurodegenerative disease shares protein clumps in common with appendixes, perhaps explaining why removing the organ is protective.

A pair of mouse studies describes neuronal subpopulations not identified before and some of their functions.

Precisely timed electrical stimulation and intensive rehabilitation restore some capacity to walk among three men more than four years after their debilitating injuries.

A trial to test whether so-called c-kit cardiac stem cells, first reported by Piero Anversa, could help patients with chronic heart failure has been halted in light of suspicion surrounding his work.

A new report finds the decline in vertebrate abundance over the past four decades is most severe in South and Central America.

Researchers predict that activity around the digital currency could single-handedly push warming above 2 °C within 30 years, but other experts say the conclusion is flawed.

A University of Georgia fisheries researcher, who is head of the school’s program to farm-raise sturgeon and sell their salt-cured eggs, is expected to retire this week.

While farmers have the green light to grow the genetically engineered plant, FDA approval is still needed before the seeds are sold as food.

Conceived as a way to resolve differences between government regulators and academics over the chemical’s effects, the CLARITY-BPA collaboration instead highlights divisions.