For nearly a century, laboratory studies have shown consistent results: eat less food, or eat less often, and an animal will live longer. But scientists have struggled to understand why these kinds of ...

Various parts of our brain affect different behaviors. Scientists tested a particular area of the cerebellum in mice to see how it affects eating. Activation of specific neurons will limit how much ...

Here we go with mice again. I am a cautionary skeptic when I read about scientific experiments that deal with social hypotheses. As someone who has worked in risk analysis, I squint at imaginative ...