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The journal is sharpening its review of life science papers and giving authors additional space to document more detailed methods.

Researchers use bacteria to deliver radiation to shrink pancreatic tumors in mice.

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.
 

Rodents and fruit flies appear to be able to sense nutrients even when they can’t taste the food they’re eating. Now, researchers are trying to figure out how.

Researchers are identifying distinctive brain activity patterns that can be used to monitor patients under anesthesia and assess consciousness in “vegetative” patients.

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A protective barrier built from detergent and plasma allows living creatures to be viewed under a scanning electron microscope.

Two publications on the same topic are compromised by the decision to separate the data.

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.

This dramatic science fiction film follows a grieving father using his research to understand his infant son’s gruesome death—and explores the culture and ethics of science along the way.

Fossilized skeletal remains of the hominid Australopithecus sediba add to the puzzle of human evolution.