Why do we sometimes keep eating even when we're full and other times turn down food completely? Why do we crave salty things ...

New experiments reveal how astrocytes tune neuronal activity to modulate our mental and emotional states. The results suggest ...

The way the brain develops can shape us throughout our lives, so neuroscientists are intensely curious about how it happens. A new study by researchers in The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory ...

Birds don’t get enough credit for the magnificent creatures they are. Many people have heard a black-capped chickadee trilling or chirping in their backyard but fail to realize evolution has ...

Scientists are developing a "sponge" that can soak up pain signals in the body before they reach the brain, potentially ...

Most people wouldn’t give Geobacter sulfurreducens a second look. The bacteria was first discovered in a ditch in rural Oklahoma. But the lowly microbe has a superpower. It grows protein nanotubes ...

The findings, published in Nature on July 19, shed light on potential neural mechanisms involved in working memory and decision making. "Our study is a step toward thinking of the brain not in terms ...

Navigating the world is no mean feat, especially when the world pushes back. For instance, airflow hitting a fly on its right ...

A study on mice identified a group of neurons in the central amygdala region of the brain that display a unique pattern of ...

To navigate, the brain must convert changing sensations into a map-like sense of the world, which remains stable as the body moves. A new study finds that the fly brain sometimes performs the ...