Every day, people are constantly learning and forming new memories. When you pick up a new hobby, try a recipe a friend ...

Every soft caress of wind, searing burn and seismic rumble is detected by our skin’s tangle of touch sensors. David Ginty has ...

Novel tools that allow neuron-specific investigations of the structure controlling sleep regulation in fruit flies reveal the extent of neuronal heterogeneity.

Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date.

In a study published in Cell on April 7, a research team led by Prof. Li Hanjie from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced ...

In a study published in Cell, a research team led by Prof. Li Hanjie from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology ...

“One of these groups of neurons is solely dedicated to regulating the desire to drink, the first ‘thirst neuron’ that has been identified ... and a laser precisely tuned to trigger those cells. They ...

New research shines light on how the brain interprets nutritional and hydration needs and turns them into action ...

Rosemarie Hansen learned the hard way when an open flame turned her locks into a lesson. New methods for deriving macrophages from induced pluripotent stem cells are easier to scale and provide more ...

This week, MIT Technology Review published a piece on bodyoids—living bodies that cannot think or ... Embryos start with the union of an egg cell and a sperm cell. But scientists have been ...