News tagged with journal science

Tiny wireless injectable LED device shines light on mouse brain, generating reward

Using a miniature electronic device implanted in the brain, scientists have tapped into the internal reward system of mice, prodding neurons to release dopamine, a chemical associated with pleasure.

Neuroscience created Apr 11, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Could scientists peek into your dreams? (w/ video)

(HealthDay)—Talk about mind reading. Researchers have discovered a potential way to decode your dreams, predicting the content of the visual imagery you've experienced on the basis of neural activity recorded ...

Neuroscience created Apr 04, 2013 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Mitochondrial dynamics in neurons: Whats all the fuss about?

(Medical Xpress)—In the epic series Star Wars, the mysterious energy field known simply as, the Force, was communicated by microscopic endosymbionts known as midichlorians. Their real world counterparts, ...

Neuroscience created Apr 03, 2013 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Research says 'evolutionary glitch' could be cause of childhood ear infections

Researchers at King's College London have uncovered how the human ear is formed, giving clues as to why children are susceptible to infections such as glue ear. The work was funded by the UK Medical Research Council and published ...

Medical research created Mar 21, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Wolf in sheep's clothing: Uncovering how deadly bacteria trick immune system

An outbreak of tuberculosis in the skid row area of downtown Los Angeles may have exposed up to 4,500 individuals to the bacterium that causes the deadly disease and has left federal officials scrambling ...

Medical research created Feb 28, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Epigenetic reprogramming: Research discovers how epigenetic information could be inherited

New research reveals a potential way for how parents' experiences could be passed to their offspring's genes. The research was published today, 25 January, in the journal Science.

Genetics created Jan 24, 2013 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Mouse research links adolescent stress and severe adult mental illness

Working with mice, Johns Hopkins researchers have established a link between elevated levels of a stress hormone in adolescence—a critical time for brain development—and genetic changes that, in young adulthood, cause ...

Neuroscience created Jan 17, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Model for brain signaling flawed, new study finds

A new study out today in the journal Science turns two decades of understanding about how brain cells communicate on its head. The study demonstrates that the tripartite synapse – a model long accepted by the ...

Neuroscience created Jan 10, 2013 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (14) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Study pinpoints brain area's role in learning

An area of the brain called the orbitofrontal cortex is responsible for decisions made on the spur of the moment, but not those made based on prior experience or habit, according to a new basic science study ...

Neuroscience created Nov 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

'Different kind of stem cell' possesses attributes favoring regenerative medicine

A research team at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center say the new and powerful cells they first created in the laboratory a year ago constitute a new stem-like state of adult epithelial cells. They say these ...

Medical research created Nov 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Research on mice suggests new fertility treatments

Japanese scientists have turned mouse skin cells into eggs that produced baby mice—a technique that, if successfully applied to humans, could someday allow women to stop worrying about the ticking of their ...

Medical research created Oct 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists explain how ketamine vanquishes depression within hours

(Medical Xpress)—Many chronically depressed and treatment-resistant patients experience immediate relief from symptoms after taking small amounts of the drug ketamine. For a decade, scientists have been ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Oct 04, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (40) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Study shows how early social isolation impairs long-term cognitive function

A growing body of research shows that children who suffer severe neglect and social isolation have cognitive and social impairments as adults. A study from Boston Children's Hospital shows, for the first time, how these functional ...

Neuroscience created Sep 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Electrical brain stimulation curbs epileptic seizures in rats

(HealthDay) -- Researchers report that they have created a device able to short-circuit epileptic seizures in rats.

Neuroscience created Aug 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

One act of remembering can influence future acts: study

Can the simple act of recognizing a face as you walk down the street change the way we think? Or can taking the time to notice something new on our way to work change what we remember about that walk? In a new study published ...

Neuroscience created Jul 26, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Science (journal)

Science is the academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is considered one of the world's most prestigious scientific journals. The peer-reviewed journal, first published in 1880 is circulated weekly and has a print subscriber base of around 130,000. Because institutional subscriptions and online access serve a larger audience, its estimated readership is one million people.

The major focus of the journal is publishing important original scientific research and research reviews, but Science also publishes science-related news, opinions on science policy and other matters of interest to scientists and others who are concerned with the wide implications of science and technology. Although most scientific journals focus on a specific field, Science and its rival Nature cover the full range of scientific disciplines. Science places special emphasis on biology and the life sciences because of the expansion of biotechnology and genetics over the past few decades[citation needed]. Science's impact factor for 2006 was 30.028 (as measured by Thomson ISI).

Although it is the journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, membership in the AAAS is not required to publish in Science. Papers are accepted from authors around the world. Competition to publish in Science is very intense, as an article published in such a highly-cited journal can lead to attention and career advancement for the authors. Fewer than 10% of articles submitted to the editors are accepted for publication and all research articles are subject to peer review before they appear in the magazine.

In 2007 Science (together with Nature) received the prestigious Prince of Asturias Award for Communications and Humanity

Science is based in Washington, D.C., USA, with a second office in Cambridge, England.

For more information about Science (journal), read the full article at Wikipedia.
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