Nerve cells with a direct connection from the olfactory bulb trigger a feeling of fullness. - These nerve cells do not trigger fullness in obese mice - The results are important for behavioural ...

To improve access to safe and affordable drinking water, MIT engineers are tapping into an unconventional source: the air. They developed a new atmospheric water harvester and showed that it ...

A new pilot project led by McGill University researchers is showing early success in helping cancer survivors return to work, addressing an aspect of recovery they say is often overlooked. iCanWork is ...

An MIT study shows humans flexibly deploy different reasoning strategies to tackle challenging mental tasks — offering insights for building machines that think more like us.

The brain creates separate but overlapping maps of places and rewards, with implications for understanding disorders from dementia to addiction, according to research from the Wu Tsai Neurosciences In ...

Over the past decade, the fast-growing seaweed Caulerpa prolifera has taken over seagrass in Florida’s Indian River Lagoon.

Breathalyzers are a frequently used tool to measure the amount of ethanol in someone’s breath, which relates to their blood ...

In a world first, a team led by researchers at Penn State used two-dimensional materials, which are only an atom thick and ...

UC Davis researchers have developed a brain-computer interface that can instantaneously translate brain activity into voice ...

Drinking a smoothie is a popular way to consume fruits and vegetables, many of which are rich in micronutrients called ...

We’ve converted something that has to be taken once a day to once a week, orally, using a technology that can be adapted for a variety of medications,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor ...

The ingestible capsule is about the size of a multivitamin, and once swallowed, it expands into a star shape that helps it remain in the stomach until all of the drug is released.