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Neuroscience

Obese women struggle to learn food associations

In a lab experiment, women fail to connect color signal with tasty reward, a deficit that may contribute to obesity.

Astronomy

Voyager may not have entered interstellar space, after all

Two scientists argue that Voyager 1 space probe is still in solar bubble, despite NASA’s announcements to the contrary.

Plants

Wine corks may owe quality to gene activity

Discovery of genes that distinguish superior stoppers from inferior ones could help reverse recent global downturn in quality.

Neuroscience

Electrode turns consciousness on and off

Woman lost awareness, though appeared awake, when her brain was stimulated near an area called the claustrum.