Brown fat, unlike white fat, burns calories and regulates body temperature. The study published in Aging Cell shows that it also improves blood circulation to muscles during exercise. The modified ...

Researchers in China conducted the first study demonstrating this neural coupling between two different species. Using electroencephalography (EEG), they recorded the brain signals of dogs and humans ...

The remarkable resistance of this response to a whole battery of ion channel inhibitors, beyond just sodium channels, suggests that it could largely be an intracellular phenomenon, relying on the ...

By Laure Tabouy - University of Paris-Saclay Consciousness is one of the most complicated and complex notions. Complicated because it is difficult to understand, and complex because it encompasses ...

While the patterns and colors of lizard skin are fascinating, the mechanisms behind them are largely unknown. A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has focused on the leopard gecko, a popular ...

The egg is a closed environment that allows the development of an embryo and the future chick. It provides all the essential nutrients for the embryo to develop until hatching. It ensures gas ...

Indeed, our body is not well adapted for this consumption, and alcohol remains toxic, even though evolution has done what it could by stabilizing a mutation in our genome in the gene coding for the ...

This question about the boundaries of the universe is one of those that humans will likely continue to ponder until the end of time. We are not sure, but we can try to imagine what the edge of the ...

This study, conducted by scientists at ETH Zurich, reveals that the brain remains partially awake even during rest. The pupils, by changing size, betray these fluctuations in brain activation, thus ...

Beneath our feet, hundreds of kilometers deep, lies an invisible yet essential world: the Earth's mantle. For a long time, scientists believed they understood its structure and functioning. But a ...

The study utilized long-term data, demonstrating that losing family members increases aging markers in DNA, particularly if these losses happen during childhood or young adulthood. Researchers relied ...

But why is milk prone to boiling over, while a pot of water causes no such trouble (beyond rattling the lid or creating the occasional splash in a vigorous boil)? It's all due to the unique ...