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Working with Caenorhabditis elegans, a transparent nematode found in soil, researchers were the first to find that the nervous system controls the tiny worm's cuticle, a skin-like exterior barrier, in response to bacterial infections.

This is the first study to really show, in a statistical model, that air pollution was associated with Alzheimer’s-like brain changes with declines in memory performance.

Now, Salk Institute researchers have discovered a brain circuit that controls alcohol drinking behavior in mice, and can be used as a biomarker for predicting the development of compulsive drinking later on.

The world’s love for chocolate has helped decimate protected forests in western Africa as some residents have turned protected areas into illegal cocoa farms and hunting grounds. But researchers have found that simply patrolling the grounds of two forest reserves in Ivory Coast has helped reduce illegal activity.

Stanford and UMass Amherst develop a new way to help machine-learning designers build AI with safeguards against specific, undesirable outcomes such as racial and gender bias

Engineers at Duke University have developed a microscope that adapts its lighting angles, colors and patterns while teaching itself the optimal settings needed to complete a given diagnostic task.

A recent study provides clarification and analysis on various aspects of what a controlled environment system entails and the extent to which differing food production approaches can be applied to the many current and hopeful endeavors of Urban Agriculture.

The cerebral cortex is not the only area with perceptual abilities.

Researchers have developed a breakthrough in marine invertebrate (sponge) cell culture. For the first time, they have accomplished a substantial increase in both the rate and number of cell divisions.

The secret recipe nature uses to make the diverse leaf shapes we see everywhere around us has been revealed in research.