Science

Scientists at Wake Forest University School of Medicine have conducted a groundbreaking study to uncover the role of dopamine in encoding reward and punishment prediction errors in the human brain.…

Scientists have achieved a breakthrough in reinstating lost brain function in mouse models of stroke by utilizing small molecules. These molecules hold the potential for future development into a therapeutic…

The Science of Overeating In the realm of appetite control, a recent study by scientists at UC San Francisco challenges long-standing beliefs about the signals that keep us from indulging…

The latest image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows a portion of the dense center of our galaxy in unprecedented detail, including never-before-seen features astronomers have yet to explain.…

In the geological past, several groups of crocodiles evolved towards a morphology adapted to marine life. However, the extent of these adaptations and their evolutionary trajectories remained unknown. An exhaustive…

The one thing everyone knows about black holes is that absolutely everything nearby gets sucked into them. Almost everything, it turns out. “Even though black holes are defined as objects…

In the 1800s, some of the strongest earthquakes in recorded U.S. history struck North America’s continental interior. Almost two centuries later, the central and eastern United States may still be…

Weather extremes, such as heatwaves and torrential rainfalls, are becoming more frequent and more intense across the United States under climate change. In late September of this year, flash-flooding surged…

In early October, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) marked a new chapter in the history of sustainability by fining Dish Network $150,000 for abandoning one of its satellites in an…

Microfossils from Western Australia may capture a jump in the complexity of life that coincided with the rise of oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere and oceans, according to an international team…