For The Better

A new study analyzing stone tools from southern China provides the earliest evidence of rice harvesting, dating to as early as 10,000 years ago. The researchers identified two methods of harvesting rice, which helped initiate rice domestication.

Their older parents need care. Their kids are still under 18. And they probably have a job, too. They’re the ‘sandwich generation’ — a longtime nickname for the mostly female, mostly middle-aged group of Americans who serve as caregivers for both olde…

Researchers have devised a way to achieve long-term changes in neuron activity. With their new strategy, they can use light exposure to change the electrical capacitance of the neurons’ membranes, which alters their excitability (how strongly or weakly…

Engineers have created a soft robot capable of detecting when and where it was damaged — and then healing itself on the spot.

People who take cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins may have a lower risk of having a type of stroke called an intracerebral hemorrhage, according to a new study. An intracerebral hemorrhage is caused by bleeding in the brain.

Researchers showed participants videos of human, dog, and macaque pairs to determine how well humans assess social interactions.

Researchers performed an experiment, in which a set of students’ physiological data was gathered over the course of three exams. They used a smartwatch-like wearable device and collected multimodal physiological data. The use of the smartwatch-like wea…

In search of new biomarkers for nutrition and health studies, a research team has identified and structurally characterized three metabolites that could be considered as specific markers for individual coffee consumption. These are degradation products…

How do nematodes distantly related to the best-studied one, Caenorhabditis elegans, make their gut, given that the genes responsible for specifying the gut in C. elegans are absent in other nematodes?