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Researchers have conducted a meta-analysis of 17 articles to find out which areas of the brain are involved in decision-making for rendering social punishment.

Yoga has been found to be an effective approach to treating co-occurring sleep disturbance and back pain, simultaneously reducing the need for medication.

Researchers have found a new survival mechanism for a commonly known type of bacteria. It can send out warning signals and thus make sure that other bacteria escape ‘dangers’ such as antibiotics.

A research team in Trinity College Dublin has uncovered a critical role for a protein called "PKM2" in the regulation of immune cell types at the heart of multiple inflammatory diseases.

A toxic pollutant produced by burning fossil fuels can be captured from the exhaust gas stream and converted into useful industrial chemicals using only water and air thanks to a new advanced material.

One of the ways a cancer-causing gene works up enough power to turn a normal cell into a cancer cell is by copying itself over and over, like a Xerox machine. Scientists have long noticed that when cancer-causing genes do that, they also scoop up some extra DNA into their copies.

The study was published in the leading journal Nature Communications.

A gallium-based metal complex has been developed that enables the rapid chiral analysis of alcohols using NMR spectroscopy.

Michigan State University's Sleep and Learning Lab has conducted one of the largest sleep studies to date, revealing that sleep deprivation affects us much more than prior theories have suggested.

Study establishes how some songs sound 'right' in different social contexts, all over the world. The new study on music examines it as a cultural product and what makes it truly "universal."