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

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

Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

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 ...

Can the brain keep working when its architecture changes? Researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) have discovered ...

A newly identified enzyme appears to control tau production, brain inflammation, and aging. Researchers at the University of ...

While probing the escape reflex in the fruit fly Drosophila, researchers at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz (JGU) and the ...

Scientists have developed a computer-based model that may explain how nerve cells become damaged in ALS, and how best to time ...

A new study reveals how biological branching networks use surface geometry to shape blood vessels, brains, and plants.

Your brain can still make new neurons when you’re an adult. But how does the rare birth of these new neurons contribute to cognitive function? Researchers know that new neurons contribute to memory ...

The Arctic ground squirrel survives conditions that would cause irreparable brain damage in almost any other mammal on the ...

A new technical paper titled “A Case for Hypergraphs to Model and Map SNNs on Neuromorphic Hardware” was published by ...