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New flexible, porous and highly sensitive nitrogen dioxide sensors that can be applied to skin and clothing have potential applications in health care, environmental health monitoring and military use, according to researchers.

Can we become addicted to the internet? That’s the question discussed in a new review article published in Science by the University of Duisburg-Essen’s Prof. Matthias Brand.

A new research study has explored a large library of authorized drugs to identify compounds that may elicit antiviral activity against SARS-CoV-2. An antibiotic, clofoctol, produced promising results in a mouse model.

Dolphins are well known for their acoustic sense, being able to communicate over several kilometres underwater. Now researchers have found that they also have a unique sense of taste that allows them to identify family and friends without seeing or hearing them.

A lot of young people have depressive symptoms. Ruminative thinking, and even thinking about how much you ruminate, reinforces the symptoms. But there is hope.

Anyone waiting for a sociopath to grow up or calm down should give up; they will not change, a new study has revealed.

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation has been used as an effective treatment for treatment-resistant depression, and now researchers are beginning to understand how it works.

Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have developed an approach that may help to restore tumor blood flow to enhance access of chemotherapy into cancer cells and alleviate hypoxia.

People who are highly responsive to food lost more weight and, importantly, were more successful at keeping the pounds off using a new alternative weight-loss intervention that targets improving a person’s response to internal hunger cues and their ability to resist food.

A gene responsible for the evolution of neural structures used for sensing the environment has been identified.