Low doses of methamphetamine help cancer drugs cross the blood-brain barrier

A smell test can predict whether unresponsive coma patients will recover from long term injury

Scientists who tweet about their work get three times more citations than those who don't

Scientists skip stem cells, convert skin cells directly into photoreceptors. Could be new method for treating macular degeneration

A new method of identifying viruses traps them in a nanotube mesh, measures their unique "vibration" when shot with lasers

Overactive neurons in the hippocampus linked to stress and anxiety in mice

Exploring new places increases brain connectivity associated with reward processing

Dyes in squid skin are naturally anti-microbial, inhibiting growth from Candida albicans and Salmonella species

Scientists suck CO2 out of the atmosphere, create one-pot recipe for converting it into useful methanol

Fat cells "remember" early life eating behavior, and dietary changes later in life have less effect on lifespan than those early on (in mice)

Fungi learn and get tougher when exposed to drought stress, but at the cost of becoming weaker when there is no stress

Light obligation correlates with strong mental health, but as obligations get heavier the trend reverses and correlates with depressive symptoms

General relativity confirmed on the scale of centimeters rather than light years using clocks

Got a sweet tooth? Your gut bacteria are asking for some sugar

Stress causes gray hair by activating flight-or-flight response, which drives pigment-producing cells away from hair follicles

Robusta coffee is just as sensitive to climate change and cannot be relied upon to replace Arabica coffee beans, new study shows

Language skills are more important than math skills for learning programming, new neuroscience research shows

Invasive Asian carp are "starving out" native species. Because they breed well in flood waters, every flood spreads them further inland

The Milky Way's black hole may have provided the energy needed to create water and life on Earth

Climate change increases the amount of allergenic pollen in the air. This is due to a flowering season that's getting longer every year

Female toads breed with a different species when it helps their tadpoles survive

Bears that eat human food hibernate less, have shorter telomeres, and age faster

Scientists invent a cheap method for studying plants: an "ant-farm" for roots using discarded CD-ROMs

Australian researchers use phage therapy to successfully treat drug-resistant Staph. aureus

In the Atacama Desert, cyanobacteria survive by using acid to extract individual molecules of water from gypsum rocks

Cost analysis shows it'd take $1.4B to protect one Louisiana coastal town of 4,700 people from climate change-induced flooding

Hurricanes drive evolution -- lizards develop larger footpads to survive stronger hurricane seasons caused by climate change

Neuroscientists identify key proteins that control re-insulation of damaged neurons in multiple sclerosis

Imprints on the inside of the skull show humans evolved asymmetric brain pattern that other primates lack

We could soon be harvesting anti-viral antibodies from tobacco plants

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