Self-driving cars may soon be able to make moral and ethical decisions as humans do

A ground-breaking new study challenges the assumption that moral decisions are strongly context dependent and cannot…

Repurposed asthma drug shows blood sugar improvement among some diabetics

After 12 weeks of taking an anti-asthma drug, a subset of patients with type 2 diabetes…

Brain’s immune cells may drive overeating and weight gain

Immune cells in the brain trigger overeating and weight gain in response to diets rich in…

Spinning around: A room temperature field-effect transistor using graphene’s electron spin

A graphene-based spin field-effect transistor has been used in an operating at room temperature. Using the…

Multichannel EEG recordings enable precise brain wave measurement of fish

Today, zebrafish is rising as a new experimental animal model that can replace or supplement rodents…

Probing psychopathic brains

Using a mobile MRI scanner to image the brains of prison inmates, researchers have found that…

Smelling your food makes you fat

Researchers developed ways to temporarily eliminate the sense of smell in adult mice, and discovered that…

Watching cancer spread in a mouse

A new method has been developed to image cancer at the single-cell level by using chemical…

Recreating interstellar ions with lasers

Trihydrogen, or H3+, has been called the molecule that made the universe, where it plays a…

Synthetic horns may save rhinos if they are not like the real thing

To help stem the tide of rhino poaching, some biotech companies are seeking to develop and manufacture…