A mouse study highlights the role of acetylcholine in behavioral flexibility, offering new insight into the brain mechanisms involved in addiction and obsessive compulsive disorder.

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NetApp continues to grow in spite of, and perhaps because of, uncertainties in the cloud, AI, and data center infrastructure ...

Although we've all experienced the sensation of "eating" with our eyes and noses before food meets mouth, much less is known about the information superhighway, known as the vagus nerve, that sends ...

This article explains how diet creates sustained epigenetic changes that affect long-term health, disease risk, aging, and ...

Most materials we use in everyday life expand slightly when heated and return to their original size when cooled. In addition to such thermal properties, materials can also have electrical properties ...

Conservation has long depended on measurement. Populations are counted, habitats mapped, trends plotted against baselines that often extend back only a few decades. Yet many ecosystems began changing ...

Music has long been more than mere background. Clinical observations and research findings suggest that melodies affect emotional tone, attention, bodily responses, and everyday decisions—from ...