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UCLA research shows a little night music prompts a big response from the brain, except in one key area. A unique study of brain activity in the cerebral cortex of epilepsy patients found there was a robust response to sound during sleep…

Risk surrounds us. Researchers in the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Basel set out to discover how we look at risk and developed a new method to determine how society perceives it. The meaning of risk differs from individual…

Salk scientists discovered an unexpected molecular target of a common treatment for alopecia. The findings, published in Nature Immunology, describe how immune cells called 'regulatory T cells' interact with skin cells using a hormone as a…

A knee replacement creates nearly 30 pounds of waste, and almost half of that is biohazardous materials that require a great deal of energy to treat for safe disposal. Cataract surgery releases 400 pounds (181.8 kilograms) of carbon…

Cancer occurrences are climbing, and skin cancer is no exception. Doctors carve out lumps of tissue for biopsy to determine if cancer is present, often causing painful wounds that heal slowly. The medical field is more aggressively testing,…

DNA can mutate. Researchers at the University of Surrey say this could be due to strange rules of quantum mechanics. Typically, DNA bases follow strict bonding rules based on shape. If the bonds change slightly, wrong bases can link—and…

Researchers at Georgia State designed an artificial vision device that incorporates a novel vertical stacking architecture. The result is greater depth of color recognition and scalability on a micro-level. The new development is published…

By Carolyn Mathas Researchers used the ‘robot scientist’ Eve and automated text analysis to semi-automate reproducing research results. Reproducibility is a major challenge in science. Led by the University of Cambridge,…

We're relying on smartwatches for all kinds of information, including how our heart rate and rhythm behave during exercise and rest. However, according to a recent study, smartwatch measurements may be less accurate in people with darker…

It seems that our organs and systems have different ages from a biological perspective, says investigators Xun Xu of the Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI) and China National GeneBank (CNGB) in Shenzhen, China. Published in the journal Cell…