Scientists define five types of colon neurons specialized for sending different signals to the brain. The gut-brain connection is a complicated two-way signaling cascade that is responsible for ...

Every second, about 100 trillion neutrinos pass through your body unnoticed. At the South Pole, the National Science Foundation-funded IceCube Neutrino Observatory uses a kilometer-wide array of ...

The University of Connecticut is conducting a research project to see how pedestrians and drivers interact with each other at intersections with traffic signals. It will also determine how safe ...

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A new study by Pitt researchers challenges a decades-old assumption in neuroscience by showing that the brain uses distinct transmission sites—not a shared site—to achieve different types of ...