An international team of more than 300 researchers has announced the completion of a project to find the genetic causes of high blood pressure. Scientists have identified 28 genes whose mutations lead to disturbances in its regulation.
German researcher Fabian Hemmert has shown prototypes of mobile devices that transmit not only speech, but also touch, moisture from a kiss, and light breathing.
British researchers have discovered a gene responsible for chronic pain, the BBC reports. Their work opens the way to the development of new painkillers.
In total darkness, the brain tells the visual system what it thinks should be there. In doing so, the brain mobilizes its own previous life and visual experience.
Scientists from Harvard University conducted a study involving 14,000 nurses and concluded that 15-30 grams of alcohol per day has a beneficial effect on the health of women over 50 years of age,
The abnormally enlarged head and brain of newborns is due to abnormal activity of neuronal precursor cells, which, when dividing, block the channels for the outflow of cerebrospinal fluid from the brain.
The doubts surrounding the female orgasm were almost resolved by a theory formulated in 2005. According to it, it was a by-product of male evolution: men had gained an important and useful orgasm for them, and women had also benefited from this evolutionary process.
The mind is the most expensive thing in the world. Not in money, but in the currency common to all biology - energy. As one study showed, newborns spend almost 90% of the calories they receive on building and using the brain.
Swiss engineers have built a robot to transmit the effect of telepresence, control of which requires only a network of electrodes connected to the user's head.
