New findings published in the Journal of Neuroscience show how people who frequently use botox, a cosmetic treatment that's used to treat wrinkles and can also be used for some medical conditions, was found to escape to spots in the central nervous system.
Scientists have taken a closer look at bird populations and have found that since the March 11 earthquake, which caused the nuclear catastrophe, bird populations have plummeted.
Humans may be able to communicate positive emotions like happiness through just the smell of their sweat.
Scientists may have discovered a new way to make trees grow bigger and faster, which could increase supplies of renewable resources and help trees cope with the effects of climate change.
Bisphenol A (BPA) may just impact the animals in our environment. Scientists have discovered this chemical can disrupt sexual function in turtles, which could be a warning for environmental health.
The ability to create a Lower Paleolithic hand axe may just depend on complex cognitive control by the prefrontal cortex, including the "central executive" function of working memory.
Since the Cambrian Explosion, ecosystems have suffered repeated mass extinctions: five in total. Now, scientists have identified a sixth major extinction that occurred 262 million years ago in China.
What causes a mother to respond to her child? It all has to do with hormones. Scientists have discovered that the powerful brain hormone oxytocin acts on individual brain cells to prompt specific social behaviors.
A strange, gruesome species of bone-eating worm that was thought to have evolved at the same time as whales has now been dated back to prehistoric times.
Scientists have uncovered the longest migration in the animal kingdom. They've found that a critically endangered species of whale takes a round-trip trek of nearly 14,000 miles by sea.
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is just three months away from returning the first-ever close up images of Pluto and its system of moons. The new information should shed new insights into this distant, cold planet.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service is recalling over 1,900 pounds of Beech-Nut Nutrition baby food products because small pieces of glass may have gotten into the jars.
