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Saving The Pandas Is Worth Every Cent

Protecting giant pandas generates benefits that amount to 10-27 times the cost of conservation efforts, scientists say.

The Goldilocks Zone For Graphene-Coated Nanoparticles

Scientists in Japan have identified the precise number of graphene layers that would help to stabilize nanoparticles without compromising their catalytic ability.

Features

So You Want To Land That Data Science Internship? Here’s What You Need To Know

Having good technical skills alone is not enough to set you apart from the competition, said a panel of employers and current interns.

Technology

Gold & Graphene Make Brain Probes More Sensitive

Researchers from South Korea have developed brain probes that are small, flexible and read signals clearly.

Print

10 Unsolved Questions In Neuroscience

The mind still holds many mysteries today. Here, we uncover what we know about ten of them.

In the Lab

A Window Into The Schizophrenic Brain

Using stem cells in a dish, scientists have shown that the brain cells of schizophrenic patients is 90 percent less responsive to activity.

In the Lab

How Too Much Of A Protein Leads To Parkinson’s Disease

Scientists in Japan have revealed that too much of a protein called alpha-synuclein could cause Parkinson’s disease by interfering with vesicle recycling.

In the Lab

Sniffing Out Social Memories

Using molecular and behavioral observation techniques in mice, scientists in China have uncovered the basis of socially-dependent, odor-based learning and memory.

Philippines Enacts Law To Reverse Brain Drain

The Philippines has enacted a law to encourage Filipino scientists based overseas to return to the Philippines and carry out research in their home country.

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