Yerba maté is made from the leaves of Ilex paraguariensis, a type of South American holy. It has a number…
Tool for studying decision-making is ineffective for training better behavior
A two-step task commonly used to study people’s decision-making behaviors does not appear to be effective for training people to…
Faster, stronger rabies vaccine
Every year, more than 59,000 people around the world die of rabies and there remains no cheap and easy vaccine…
Zika virus can cause immune and brain abnormalities in asymptomatic pig offspring
Zika virus infection in the womb produces altered immune responses and sex-specific brain abnormalities in apparently healthy pig offspring, according…
Restoring protein homeostasis improves memory deficits in Down syndrome model
Researchers found that that defects in a conserved stress pathway known as the ‘integrated stress response,’ or ISR, could explain…
Study dissects attitudes on short-term vacation rentals
Feelings of neighborhood pride, interactions with tourists and a community’s laws can all influence how neighbors feel about short-term vacation…
New research quantifies how much speakers’ first language affects learning a new language
Linguistic research suggests that accents are strongly shaped by the speaker’s first language they learned growing up. New research sheds…
How maternal Zika virus infection results in newborn microcephaly
Researchers have discovered that the Zika virus protein NS4A disrupts brain growth by hijacking a pathway that regulates the generation…
Doctors give electronic health records an ‘F’
The transition to electronic health records (EHRs) was supposed to improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare for doctors and…
Earthquake-like brain-wave bursts found to be essential for healthy sleep
New research in rats shows that cortical arousals and brief awakenings during sleep exhibit non-equilibrium dynamics and complex organization across…