Four species of the horseshoe crab, the Atlantic horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) and three additional Asian species, have been integral to the safe manufacturing of…
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Most people think of acetylcholine as a neurotransmitter, a substance that is produced by nerve cells to relay signals between nerves as well as from…
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What happens to coral reef fish after they’re caught by fishers and released back into the water? In a new study, researchers followed released fish…
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In the sixties and seventies of the last century, Raileigh and coworkers experimented with the injection of fluids in the subsurface of Colorado, aiming to…
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Diffeomorphic image registration is an essential procedure in many MRI analysis tasks, such as atlas building and segmentation, anatomical variability analysis, functional magnetic resonance image…
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When was the last time you ate something which you have never had before, something like a “new” fruit or vegetable? Have you ever thought…
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In 2012, Mike Daisey appeared on the radio show This American Life to showcase excerpts from his famous monologue, “The Agony and the Ecstasy of…
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Infection by herpesviruses leads to many human diseases, ranging from a cold sore, chickenpox, to cancer. Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is a member of the β-herpesvirus…
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It starts when the rain reaches the ground and percolates into the soil, infiltrating the first layers of the Earth’s crust where groundwater circulates. This…
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Humans are inherently social. This is particularly important in early development, as young infants spend the majority of their lives interacting with caregivers. However, almost…
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There is a well-known statisticians’ joke: with one foot in a bucket of boiling water and one in a bucket of ice water, you are,…
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