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Yale researchers say that by applying modern engineering design tools to one of the basic units of life, artificial cells could be built that not only replicate the electrical behavior of electric eel cells but in fact improve on them...

A two-hour exposure of Jupiter using a next generation adaptive optical technique to remove atmospheric blur has produced the sharpest whole-planet picture ever taken from an Earth-based telescope...

The brain uses 20 percent of the body's energy, but our waking goal-oriented behaviors account for only 2 percent. Now, researchers are beginning to understand how the rest of that energy is expended to keep predictive neuronal structures communicating in a constant state of readiness...

Higher levels of testosterone correlate strongly with financial risk-taking behavior, according to a new study that sheds light on the evolutionary function and biological origins of risk taking...

Viruses dramatically increase cellular metabolism, and existing anti-obesity drugs may represent a new way to block these metabolic changes and inhibit viral infection, say University of Rochester researchers...