Decoded: How brain controls hunger

Decoded: How brain controls hunger

Although hunger is essential for survival, abnormal hunger can lead to obesity and eating disorders that are now reaching near-epidemic proportions around the world. The solution lies somewhere deep inside your brain. To unlock the mystery behind hunger pangs, researchers are creating a wiring diagram of the complex brain circuits that regulate the intense urge […]

Decoded: The evolution of multicellular organisms

Decoded: The evolution of multicellular organisms

How did cells make the transition from life as a solo cell to associating with other cells to become a single, cohesive unit? The answer lies in plants which have changed in size, shape, structure and reproduction over the past few million years, says a new study. Karl Niklas, a plant evolutionary biologist at Cornell […]