Researchers at Leipzig University have gained important insights into learning mechanisms in the brain of the fruit fly ...

Every cell in the human body squeezes over six feet of DNA into a minuscule speck invisible to the naked eye—like compressing ...

Just like vertebrates, cephalopods — such as octopuses and squid — have elaborate brains. Neuroscientists are flocking to ...

The odor receptors in the nose are not distributed at random but organized in a precise spatial pattern, two new studies ...

If you look at a Neanderthal skull and a Homo sapiens skull, they’re visibly different: Neanderthal skulls are lower and longer, whereas ours tend to be rounder. However, those differences probably ...

The exposome encompasses the entire archive of our encounters with the world; it is written, molecule by molecule, into your ...

Neuroscientists have identified a novel form of neuroplasticity, behavioral timescale synaptic plasticity (BTSP), that enables the brain to encode memories from a single experience. The mechanism, ...

Neurons that fire together, wire together” is not the full story. A novel mechanism explains how the brain can learn across ...

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Is consciousness something the brain produces, or is it woven into the fabric of reality itself? Renowned neuroscientist Christof Koch is challenging long-held scientific assumptions by confronting ...

“This is an agreement to begin to talk…A ceasefire is better than no ceasefire. It’s good for the bombing to stop. It’s good for the Strait of Hormuz to be reopened, assuming that the Iranians ...

The development of the human brain, with its extraordinary range of cognitive abilities, is an awe-inspiring feat of evolution. Each of its tens of billions of cells must be born at precisely the ...