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Shhh! Traffic Noise Messes Up Owl Hunts
Traffic noise reduces the hunting efficiency of 'acoustic predators' like owls by up to 89 percent.
Kang Jiheong Wins 2016 Reaxys PhD Prize
Kang Jiheong, Pascal Ellerbrock and Jamie Hicks have been awarded the 2016 Reaxys PhD Prize for their research on synthetic chemistry.
14 Inspiring Innovators From Asia
Meet some of Asia's best and brightest engineers and inventors.
Faulty BIN1 Leads To Alzheimer’s Plaques
Disrupted intracellular transport is a key mechanism involved in the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, researchers say.
Where The Brain Stores A Familiar Face
Have we met somewhere before? Let me check the memories inside my ventral hippocampus.
2016 Nobel Prize In Medicine Awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi
Professor Ohsumi has been recognized for his role in the discovery of autophagy, a cellular self-renewal process.
Scientists Find Region In Mouse Brain That Works Like GPS
Scientists in Japan have discovered a region of the mouse brain that acts like a GPS navigator in the absence of a sound cue signaling the location of a reward.
Brain Control: A Promising Way To Create Motor Memories
A new study shows that human motor memories can be manipulated artificially and noninvasively.
Kids With ADHD Could Be More Sensitive To Failure
For children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, if at first they don't succeed, do they try, and try again?
