How binging creates alcohol tolerance in flies

Repeated exposure to large quantities of alcohol may lead to tolerance by reducing the activity of…

Speed-accuracy tradeoff turns up gain in the brain

Widespread changes in neural activity enable people to quickly make a decision by 'turning up the…

Try togetherness: Study promotes cooperative weed management to curb herbicide resistance

In the fight against herbicide resistance, farmers are working with a shrinking toolkit. Waterhemp, a weedy…

Precision medicine clinical trial releases new findings

The largest precision medicine trial of its kind has achieved a milestone with the release of…

How does alcohol influence the development of Alzheimer’s disease?

Research has found that some of the genes affected by alcohol and inflammation are also implicated…

ChemMaps lets researchers navigate the chemical universe

A new online service -- ChemMaps -- allows users to interactively navigate the chemical space of…

HIV vaccine elicits antibodies in animals that neutralize dozens of HIV strains

An experimental vaccine regimen based on the structure of a vulnerable site on HIV elicited antibodies…

Global warming can be limited to 1.5°C by changing how we travel, heat homes, use devices

Global warming can be limited to 1.5°C by unprecedented improvements in the energy efficiency of everyday…

Mixed signals from poisonous moths

Poisonous moths use bright red spots to warn predators to avoid them -- but natural variation…

Novel PET imaging noninvasively pinpoints colitis inflammation

A novel positron emission tomography (PET) imaging method shows promise for noninvasively pinpointing sites of inflammation…