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One of the world’s largest scientific publishers refused to reduce its $3,450 fee to publish in NeuroImage. All the editors left to start their own journal. Elsevier, which says it disseminated about 18 percent of Earth’s scientific articles last year, declined editors’ requests to lower the $3,450 publishing fee at one of its journals. NeuroImage editors said they formally asked Elsevier in June to drop the charge below $2,000. Early last month, they warned they would resign.

Marijuana (cannabis) is well known for giving people the “munchies.” Not only does it make people want to eat more, but it also makes them crave the tastiest, most high-calorie foods. Now a new study in the journal Current Biology on April 20 shows that well-studied nematode worms (C. elegans) react to those chemicals known as cannabinoids in precisely the same way.

Scientists argue that elephants could be the only non-primate animal that is self-domesticated and they think the Asian elephant peeling a banana is just another proof. Read the article to learn more.

Ludwig van Beethoven died in Vienna nearly 200 years ago after a lifetime of composing some of the most influential works in classical music.

American Homefront Reporter Desiree D’Iorio will host an important online conversation with advocates for women service members, veterans and their families.

Hair samples believed to be from Ludwig van Beethoven that were auctioned for high prices might not actually be his.

The prodigious composer had serious liver problems and a hepatitis infection sometime before he died in 1827.

Nearly 200 years after Ludwig van Beethoven died, a team of researchers has managed to sequence the German composer’s genome from locks of his hair,

Hair samples believed to be from Ludwig van Beethoven that were auctioned for high prices might not actually be his.

Hair samples believed to be from Ludwig van Beethoven that were auctioned for high prices might not actually be his.