How does one distinguish the smoothness of silk or the coarse texture of sandpaper? Individuals' sense of touch is complex, requiring circuits in the brain to process incoming information much like a computer. These circuits ...
Mar 7, 2024
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Complex neuroimaging data can be explored through translation into an audiovisual format—a video with accompanying musical soundtrack—to help interpret what happens in the brain when performing certain behaviors.
Feb 21, 2024
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The deaths and injuries caused by car drivers are an everyday occurrence. This road violence has become normalized. We take it for granted as the price we have to pay to use our cars.
Nov 2, 2023
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On Sunday, Nov. 5, parts of the world, including most of the United States and Canada, will participate in the annual ritual of setting their clocks an hour back to mark the end of daylight saving time.
Oct 31, 2023
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Sometimes in the laboratory there are unexpected results. "Previously it had been observed that autoantibodies are common in severe COVID patients, those who end up in intensive care," says Jonathan Muri, postdoctoral fellow ...
Mar 6, 2023
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For the first eighteen months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Aotearoa New Zealand focused on an elimination strategy to stamp out transmission of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19). By late 2021, the country was dealing with a major outbreak ...
Feb 1, 2023
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On Sunday, Nov. 6, parts of the world, including most of the United States and Canada, will participate in the annual ritual of setting their clocks an hour back to mark the end of daylight saving time.
Nov 4, 2022
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Neuroscientists from the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) report in Science Advances that star-shaped brain cells known as astrocytes can "turn off" neurons involved in relapse to heroin. Drug-related cues in the ...
Oct 5, 2022
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Accepted theories of how people's visual attention behaves in situations with lots of stimuli, such as crossing a busy street, may need to be rethought.
Aug 22, 2022
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Researchers at the Texas A&M University School of Public Health have developed a new COVID-19 test distribution method that uses drones to quickly deliver at-home diagnostic tests to individuals who suspect they have COVID-19.
Jul 25, 2022
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