Science

Five days of indulging in chocolate bars, crisps and other junk foods can lead to lingering changes in brain activity, a study shows1. The resulting brain patterns are similar to those seen in people who have obesity.

On November 26, 2003, the plane that was once heralded as the future of aviation—the Concorde—took its final flight to Bristol, U.K.

Your dog might seem just as grumpy about the time change as you are—but scientists actually studied their responses.

Clinical trials from the UK to Japan are exploring man-made substitutes for blood.

Whether mice persist with a task, explore new options or give up comes down to the activity of three types of neuron in the brain.

This is a column about a helpful trick that will radically improve your memory with minimal effort so you can learn faster. But before I get to the science behind the technique and how it can help you in business, indulge me for a minute in explaining why I was so thrilled to discover it. 

By breaking up clusters of cancer cells, an old heart drug called digoxin may help stop tumors from spreading to other organs, a small trial shows.

The existence of synesthesia blew Sean Noah’s mind the first time he learned about it in high school biology class.

On a warm Melbourne day late last year, hundreds of thousands of live human brain cells sat inside a box on a table in Brunswick.

The fusion of non-Abelian anyons is a fundamental operation in measurement-only topological quantum computation1. In one-dimensional topological superconductors (1DTSs)2,3,4, fusion amounts to a determination of the shared fermion parity of Majorana zero modes (MZMs).