How do electrical signals become "about" something? Through purely physical processes, neural networks transform activity ...

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

UCLA basketball has been a bona fide defensive team under head coach Mick Cronin, riding it to compete for conference championships and make deep postseason runs in March. Under Cronin's watch, the ...

UMass Amherst engineers have built an artificial neuron powered by bacterial protein nanowires that functions like a real one, but at extremely low voltage. This allows for seamless communication with ...

A new bioluminescent tool allows neurons to glow on their own, letting scientists track brain activity without harmful lasers or fading signals. The advance makes it possible to watch individual brain ...

Bilal Haider receives funding from NIH and the Simons Foundation. Despite the nursery rhyme about three blind mice, mouse eyesight is surprisingly sensitive. Studying how mice see has helped ...

Becoming Iron Man in the NFL is a lot tougher than calling your nano-tech suit over from wherever you’ve stashed it like Tony Stark. It takes literal decades of hard work, consistency, and reliability ...

JL Collins' The Simple Path to Wealth was intended as a plain‑spoken guide for readers who want financial independence without studying every corner of the stock market. Instead of chasing hot tips or ...

Dopamine neurons—the cells that drive reward and motivation while we're awake—become surprisingly active during nonrapid eye movement sleep right after we learn something new. The findings challenge ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Not every conversation is collaborative. Some people don’t want to negotiate—they want to ...

When Sarah’s mother stopped recognizing her last year, it wasn’t a gradual process. One Tuesday afternoon, her mom looked at her with polite confusion and asked, “Have we met before?” For Sarah, like ...