All Stories by Laura Sanders
- Neuroscience
Zap to the head leads to fat loss
Stimulating the vestibular nerve led people to shed fat in a small trial.
- Life
Website turns Alzheimer’s research into a game
A new game assists Alzheimer’s researchers in the hunt for stalled blood vessels in the brains of mice.
- Health & Medicine
What not to do when your kid tells a lie
We teach children that lying is naughty, but it’s actually a sign of good brain development.
- Neuroscience
Giggling rats help reveal how brain creates joy
Rats relish a good tickle, which activates nerve cells in a part of the brain that detects touch.
- Neuroscience
Shape-shifting molecule aids memory in fruit flies
A prionlike protein may store long-term memories in fruit flies, a new study suggests.
- Neuroscience
Eyes offer window into brain’s timekeepers
In new experiments of time perception, when pupils were large, monkeys underestimated a second.
- Health & Medicine
Training for parents may lessen some autism symptoms in kids
Training parents may help with some autism symptoms, a new study suggests.
- Neuroscience
Frequent liars show less activity in key brain structure
Brain activity changed as people lied more, a new study finds.
- Health & Medicine
Screen time guidelines for kids give parents the controls
New recommendations for children’s media use are more nuanced than earlier guidelines, a change that reflects the shifting technology landscape.
- Health & Medicine
‘Three-parent baby’ boy healthy so far
A baby boy born with donor mitochondrial DNA seems to be healthy, researchers report at a meeting.
- Neuroscience
Mice smell, share each other’s pain
Pain can jump from one mouse to another, presumably through chemicals detected by the nose.
- Neuroscience
Out-of-sync body clock causes more woes than sleepiness
The ailment, called circadian-time sickness, can be described with Bayesian math, scientists propose.
