By tracking feedback during tasks, the anterior cingulate cortex notices when a new step has become necessary and signals the motor cortex to adjust.
Mathematical modeling speeds up the process of programming bacterial systems to self-assemble into desired 2D shapes.
The materials’ stiffness increases up to 40 percent, in a reversible effect, the researchers report in a study that also explains the phenomenon's atomic origins.
An Auburn University research team from the College of Veterinary Medicine and the College of Agriculture recently became the first to map a high-quality genome assembly of the blue catfish.
Two new images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope show what may be among the earliest galaxies ever observed.
About 37,000 years ago, a mother mammoth and her calf met their end at the hands of human beings.
When people feel sleepy or alert, that sensation is controlled in part by the ebb and flow of a 24-hour rhythm of their body temperature.
With the rapid, unprecedented pace of climate change, it is time to start seriously considering the worst-case scenarios, warns Washington State University archaeologist Tim Kohler.
Eukaryotes are organisms whose cells have a separate nucleus containing the genetic material, a protein-transcribing apparatus in the cytoplasm and energy-producing organelles such as mitochondria.
Stem cell capsules implanted on heart surface improve function in four weeks
Rice lab leads effort to generate thickness-independent piezoelectricity in atom-thick materials
Structural racism exacerbates cognitive declines of Black children exposed to lead
How do frogs protect themselves from predators?
Megalodon, the largest shark that ever lived, is famous for its huge, human-hand-sized teeth. However, there is little fossil evidence of its whole body.
Simultaneous extreme heat and drought events have consequences in a variety of areas – for example the economy, health and food production.
Similar to humans, chimpanzees use communication to coordinate their cooperative behavior – such as during hunting.
With the help of the worlds best tweezers a team of researchers from the University of Copenhagen has shed new light on a fundamental mechanism in all living cells that helps them explore their surroundings and even invade tissue.
Young people’s mental health has not been affected by the two corona lockdowns, a new study from the University of Copenhagen concludes.
Gazing back to the early epochs after the Big Bang, for the first time have scientists found the ancestor of a supermassive black hole.
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a new method for studying age-related brain disorders.