Here’s the (usual) Phish summertime formula: Fun first set with lots of songs, tour debuts, and the occasional bust-out. Big second set with deep, rolling jams and higher highs. Last night in Chicago, ...

Plato, who taught in the fourth century BCE, argued that each person has an intuitive capacity to recognize the truth. He called this the highest form of understanding: “noesis .” Noesis enables ...

Sleep may not just be rest for the mind—it may be essential maintenance for the body's power supply. A new study by ...

What made ribose the sugar of choice for life's code? Scientists at Scripps Research may have cracked a major part of this ...

In a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park, a microbe does something that life shouldn’t be able to do: It breathes oxygen ...

Now, an ambitious Microsoft-funded project at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), is studying the neural activity ...

Ticks can be hard to spot but spread serious diseases. See pictures of what tick bites and rashes look like and get tips from experts on how to identify them.

In a scientific first, researchers from Vanderbilt University and the University of California, San Diego, have generated a ...

Researchers led by Gen Kurosawa at the RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences (iTHEMS) in ...

In a key advance for regenerative medicine and gut health, scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School and Nanyang Technological ...

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Researchers have discovered a novel gut-brain sensory circuit in mice where specialized colonic cells sense bacterial flagellin and rapidly suppress feeding via the vagus nerve. This "neurobiotic ...