Fan Wang’s studies of how the brain controls pain may one day lead to new treatments that could help millions of people.
The planet’s night side likely hosts iron clouds, titanium rain, and winds that dwarf Earth’s jetstream.
A model’s ability to generalize is influenced by both the diversity of the data and the way the model is trained, researchers report.
MIT neuroscientists have identified a population of neurons in the human brain that respond to singing but not other types of music.
Discovery shows for the first time that multiferroic properties can exist in a two-dimensional material; could lead to more efficient magnetic memory devices.
State-of-the-art analysis of brain images from nearly 700 children has turned up surprisingly few links between white matter structure and reading ability.
Shipping Emissions, Humidity and Strong Sea Breeze Contribute to Hazy Conditions
May Be Helpful for High-Risk and Immunocompromised Individuals
Media Meant to Inform Can Cause Skewed View of Increased Crime
Northern States Take the Lead
Study Suggests Health Disparities May Cause Those Living in Rural Areas to be More Neurotic, Less Open
Researchers at the University of Houston are using glow-in-the-dark materials to enhance and improve rapid COVID-19 home tests.
GeneRISK study shows that information about personal genetic risk for cardiovascular disease motivates individuals to take better care of their health. This is the first comprehensive study assessing the impact of overall disease risk information based on both genetic and traditional health factors on lifestyle.
Researchers at the University of Helsinki discovered how ovarian cancer hides from the body’s immune system. The findings will help develop novel precision therapies for ovarian cancer, a common and aggressive cancer type.
The coronavirus pandemic has increased digital nomadism, which can bring about new forms of inequality in professional life.
Using supercomputer simulations researchers have been able to create the most accurate simulation to date that depicts the evolution of the Local Universe from the Big Bang to the present-day.
New study provides the first comprehensive and complimentary overview on the physical and functional interactions of the human transcription factors.
An international team of scientists, led by University of Helsinki, reported the first evidence that “mitophagy” – recycling of damaged mitochondria – leads to human disease.
A Finnish twin study suggests that the deteriorative effects of cardiovascular risk factors on late-life cognition are stronger in individuals with lower education compared to those with higher education.
The researchers of the Digital Geography Lab at the University of Helsinki have published spatial data describing the daily rhythms in the population distribution in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area as open data.