Researchers discover that the phosphorylation of a newly identified protein kinase substrate downstream of the dopamine signaling pathway regulates the brain reward behavior. The nucleus accumbens, ...

Because same-sex sexual behavior does not result in offspring, evolutionary biologists have long wondered how the genes associated with this behavior have persisted in the human genome, and whether ...

In the past few years, artificial intelligence models of language have become very good at certain tasks. Most notably, they excel at predicting the next word in a string of text; this technology ...

This post was written by Elizabeth Berry, BSc, and Professor Patricia Lockwood, Ph.D. Adolescence is a time of rapid change, biologically, emotionally, and socially. While most young people are able ...