Inmates in Texas prisons want a federal court to force the state to provide air-conditioning for all of its prison cells. By Lauren McGaughy Reporting from Austin. A federal judge in Austin will soon ...

The trial over insufficient air conditioning in Texas prisons is slated to start Monday in Austin. The proceeding comes over a year after U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman said in a groundbreaking, 91 ...

Neural mechanisms underlying active avoidance are not fully understood. Here authors show that avoidance actions are positively reinforced by learned safety signals. With training, control shifts from ...

What is the optimal way to learn something new? In a JNeurosci paper, John Byrne and colleagues, from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, bring us a step closer to answering this ...

Fear conditioning is a type of classical conditioning that involves pairing an aversive stimulus (such as an electric shock) with either a neutral context (such as a location) or stimulus (such as a ...

Your window air conditioner isn’t exactly the prettiest decor, but it is one of the best tools for staying cool in warm weather, especially if (like me) you don’t ...

If you want fresh, cool air without the stress of a window AC installation, a portable air conditioner can be a great solution. Think of these appliances as AC units on wheels, able to cool a single ...