Ever eat a full meal ... and find you still have room for dessert? If so, you're not alone. Sugar is a quick form of energy ...

This week's Short Wave news roundup covers harvesting drinking water from fog, what elephant seals reveal about fish ...

A study has found that brain chemicals such as dopamine and serotonin work together in controlling hunger and food intake, a ...

Armen Saghatelyan aimed to shed light on how neural stem cells integrate a multitude of signals from different cell types in the brain – and how they decode these signals. ‘How does the brain ...

Summary: Scientists have discovered that neural stem cells (NSCs) receive constant feedback from their daughter cells, influencing whether they remain dormant or activate to form new neurons and glia.

The brain contains a complex network of structures involved in the evaluation and processing of stress. These include the prefrontal cortex, the central amygdala, the hippocampus, as well as several ...

Neurons found in one of the oldest regions of the brain may control when we stop eating a meal, new research in mice hints.

To investigate whether the Cdc2-like kinase 2 (CLK2) is expressed in hypothalamic neurons and if it is, whether the hypothalamic CLK2 has a role in the regulation of energy balance. Thus ...

Newly discovered brain cells count each bite before sending the order to cease eating a meal. Columbia scientists have found specialized neurons in the brains of mice that order the animals to ...

Feb. 4, 2025 – Microplastics have been found in the brain, showing they can cross the blood-brain barrier, and the amounts of the tiny plastic bits inside our bodies appear to be increasing at a ...

Elon Musk wants to merge humans with AI. And his goal of achieving "symbiosis" with artificial intelligence starts with a brain chip. Neuralink, a company Musk co-founded, is testing linking ...