Female mammals typically carry two X chromosomes — one from each parent — and a new study suggests that the maternal X is ...

A recent study published in the European Journal of Neuroscience sheds light on how childhood maltreatment may leave lasting ...

The latest addition to Lego’s Architecture line is a highly-detailed version of Italy’s iconic Trevi Fountain. Yes, the ...

Lactylation is a reversible, covalent, post-translational modification of proteins. It happens exclusively on lysine residues, where it influences protein structure, stability, localization, and ...

This important study assessed the effects of food intake on sharp wave-ripples in the hippocampus of mice during subsequent sleep. Solid evidence supports the conclusion that sharp wave-ripples are ...

Consider the example of London taxi drivers whose hippocampi physically grew as they memorized the city’s streets. Similarly, musicians develop enhanced motor and auditory regions of the brain ...

People with chronic PTSD lost volume in certain parts of their hippocampi in the years after 2015. But as people recovered, their hippocampus stopped atrophying, the results suggest. The new ...

It may be, for example, that taxi and ambulance driving attract people who have naturally different hippocampi or have lower baseline risk of Alzheimer’s disease to begin with. After all ...

Explore amazing LEGO displays, from epic Star Wars collections to knights and their castles, for International LEGO ...