Under time pressure, people tell us what we want to hear

When asked to answer questions quickly and impulsively, people tend to respond with a socially desirable…

Overweight before age 40 increases the cancer risk

The risk of cancer increases considerably if you gain weight before the age of 40. …

Habitual tea drinking modulates brain efficiency: Evidence from brain connectivity evaluation

The researchers recruited healthy older participants to two groups according to their history of tea drinking…

Aleksei Leonov, First Man to Walk in Space, Dies at 85

The Russian cosmonaut’s thrilling feat in 1965 nearly cost him his life, but raised Soviet prestige…

PIA23489: Terra Cimmeria

           Target: Mars Mission:  2001 Mars Odyssey Instrument:  THEMIS Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Click here…

Alexei Leonov, first human to walk in space, dies at 85

Alexei Leonov, who became the first human to walk in space in 1965, died on Friday…

Alexei Leonov: First person to walk in space dies aged 85

Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov floated above the Earth for 12 minutes in 1965. Click…

Overcoming the blood-brain-barrier: Delivering therapeutics to the brain

For the first time, scientists have identified a simple way that can effectively transport medication into…

Physics: DNA-PAINT super-resolution microscopy at speed

Recent advances in fluorescence microscopy allow researchers to study biological processes below the classical diffraction limit…

Illumination of abnormal neuronal activities caused by myelin impairment

The neural circuit basis for motor learning tasks when myelination is impaired has been illuminated for…