“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity.” Louis Pasteur said that in 1876. Today it would be more accurate to say that science belongs to the corporations and investors that ...

The ability to regulate our impulses and desires is indispensable to success in living and working with others. People with good control over their thought processes, emotions and behaviors not only ...

A scientific squabble over how to define self-control draws from an unlikely source: A story from Greek mythology. Sailing home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, Odysseus longed to hear the Sirens’ ...

Darby Saxbe is worried her research funding might get canceled. People's brains change when they become parents. She studies fathers' brains, in particular, to understand which changes might underlie ...

For over a century, we’ve turned to technology in an attempt to control the weather. Are today’s geoengineering proposals any better? By Bill Gourgey Published ...

In laboratory experiments, the team used the device to send tiny, patterned bursts of light into the brains of genetically modified mice whose neurons respond to light. The mice quickly learned to ...

Researchers developed a way to help people with amputation or paralysis regain limb control. Their optogenetic technique could offer more precise control over muscle contraction, along with a dramatic ...

Better late than never. Amid the still widening corruption scandal, government officials say certain flood control projects will resume or be implemented. The difference this time is that the projects ...

Most, if not all, forms of hormonal birth control, from pills to implants to intrauterine devices (IUDs), increase the risk of developing breast cancer, a new study suggests. It was known that ...

A brain region called the hypothalamus is smaller among women who use birth control pills, compared with non-users, a new study finds. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

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