This work, combining behavioural genetics and calcium imaging, provides evidence for a form of learning in Drosophila that derives solely from direct or (optogenetically induced) phantom experience of ...

Comparing a map of the neurons in a nematode worm - the connectome - with a map of how signals travel across those neurons ...

In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to ...

Researchers at POSTECH and Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine have identified that oral bacteria in the gut can ...

The brain never rests: even during deep sleep or under anesthesia, it maintains rhythmic electrical activity known as slow ...

The brain divides vision between its two hemispheres—what's on your left is processed by your right hemisphere and vice versa ...

How we focus our attention before we even see an object matters. For example, when we look for something moving in the sky, ...

The leading theories of consciousness suggest that the outer layer of the human brain, called the cortex (in blue in figure 1 ...

This study deciphers the characteristics of human spinal cord neural stem cells (hscNSCs) specific to cervical, thoracic, and ...

There's a molecule that our body makes from vitamin B5 that is critical for all of the metabolic processes essential for ...

Since their discovery in 2004, the grid cells in the brain, which are important for our orientation, have been regarded as a kind of "GPS in the head." However, scientists at the German Cancer ...

Tipping talked about adapting the film’s original script by Skip Bronkie and Zack Akers and exclusively confirmed to io9 that ...