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New research by neuroscientists revealed that a simple, earbud-like device developed at UCSF that imperceptibly stimulates a key nerve leading to the brain could significantly improve the wearer's ability to learn the sounds of a new language.

Plants recognize beneficial microbes and keep harmful ones out, which is important for healthy plant production and global food security. Scientists have now discovered how legumes use small, well-defined motifs in receptor proteins to read molecular signals produced by both pathogenic and symbiotic microbes.

As a first-year graduate student studying truffle ecology, Dan Luoma attended a scientific meeting in 1981 on Orcas Island in Washington. He went out one day of the meeting looking for the prized fungi and found a collection. Almost four decades later, with the help of new scientific technologies, Trappe and several other scientists confirmed that the truffle is unique

Researchers have demonstrated that placebos reduce brain markers of emotional distress even when people know they are taking one.

Rhythms produced by the brain can reliably be used to predict how sensitive we are to pain, new research shows.

When we dream, our brains are filled with noisy electrical activity that looks nearly identical to that of the awake brain. Now, researchers have pulled a signal out of the noise that uniquely defines dreaming, or REM sleep, potentially making it easier to monitor people with sleep disorders, as well as unconscious coma patients or those under anesthesia.

Taking vitamin D and calcium twice a day may reduce your chances of getting vertigo again, according to a new study.

When it comes to training neural circuits for tissue engineering or biomedical applications, a new study suggests a key parameter: Train them young.

A new analysis of ancient genomes suggests that different branches of the human family tree interbred multiple times, and that some humans carry DNA from an archaic, unknown ancestor.

Researchers warn that even with some lockdown measures staying in place to the end of 2021, without more structural interventions global temperatures will only be roughly 0.01°C lower than expected by 2030.