A team of researchers shows how proteins called 'chaperones' are vital in ensuring that neurons can transmit signals to one another. When this neurotransmission breaks down, devastating diseases such ...

The nervous system does an astonishing job of tracking sensory information, and does so using signals that would drive many computer scientists insane: a noisy stream of activity spikes that may be ...

A joint research team led by Professors Jaesok Yu, Hoejoon Kim, and Sanghoon Lee of the Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering at the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology ...

One of the only things I think I’ve learned in what will, pretty soon, be decades, plural, of work in elite sport is that everybody is human. Everybody. Every Body. (Including the refs!) Which means ...

1 Key Laboratory of Bionic Engineering (Ministry of Education), Jilin University, Changchun, China 2 Institute of Structured and Architected Materials, Liaoning Academy of Materials, Shenyang, China ...

The sea lamprey looks like it’s from another planet, but this ancient creature has a surprising amount in common with humans Olivia Ferrari Sea lampreys have large neurons and synapses, making them ...

Gentex Corp. is partnering with Anduril to provide helmet and communications integration for the U.S. Army’s Soldier Borne Mission Command (SBMC) program. Credit: Gentex WASHINGTON — Maxar ...

Human bones were found in the sewer system in Hamilton and the discovery is reopening wounds for local families who have missing loved ones. On Wednesday, a routine maintenance inspection in Hamilton ...

Just as a genome is all the genetic information of an organism, a connectome is a map of all the neuronal connections in the brain of an organism (Swanson and Lichtman, 2016). The human brain contains ...

Your peripheral nervous system (PNS) is crucial to navigating daily life. It lets you walk, controls your eye movements, and rings your brain’s alarms when you step on a Lego brick. Yet researchers ...

We’ve long been told that happiness is a mindset, a perspective, maybe even a daily practice. But something else is also deeply embodied, radical and accurate: Happiness isn't just in our heads, it's ...