“A new stress paradigm for women”

“The model, called “tend-and-befriend” by its developers, won’t replace fight-or-flight. Rather, it adds another dimension to the stress-response arsenal, says University of California, Los Angeles, psychologist Shelley Taylor, PhD, who, along with five colleagues…

“Prions Are Key to Preserving Long-Term Memories”

“animals make and use prions in their nervous systems as part of an essential function: stabilizing the synapses that constitute long-term memories. These natural prions aren’t infectious but on a molecular level they chain up exactly the same…

“Mummy genomes reveal just how catastrophic European contact was for New World”

“By tallying up the random mutations that accumulate in populations that have been separated, geneticists can count backwards and figure out when two groups last had a common ancestor. When the…

“The dystopian lake filled by the world’s tech lust”

“Dozens of pipes line the shore, churning out a torrent of thick, black, chemical waste from the refineries that surround the lake. The smell of sulphur and the roar of the pipes invades my senses. It feels like hell on Earth.

“How Junk Food Can End Obesity”

“If the most-influential voices in our food culture today get their way, we will achieve a genuine food revolution. Too bad it would be one tailored to the dubious health fantasies of a small, elite minority. And too bad it would largely exclude the obese masses, who would…

“The Octopus Genome: Not “Alien” but Still a Big Problem for Darwinism”

“The technical paper explains that the octopus genome reveals “massive expansions in two gene families previously thought to be uniquely enlarged in vertebrates: the protocadherins, which regulate neuronal…

“Brain’s ‘atlas’ of words revealed”

“Volunteers — including lead author Alex Huth — listened to more than two hours of stories from a US radio programme while remaining still inside a functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanner…

The results were converted into a…