Northwestern researchers have developed a wireless device that uses patterns of light to send information directly to the ...

“Most sex differences in the brain are subtle and distributed,” Licht explained in a statement. “What surprised us here was the clarity of the signal. This is a discrete group of neurons that behaves ...

Many animals do something that still surprises researchers: females often mate with more than one male. This behavior—polyandry—has long raised a blunt question. Why divide offspring among multiple ...

Scientists have long suspected that the trillions of microbes in our intestines do more than digest lunch, but new work goes much further, showing that human gut bacteria can push mouse brains to ...

Researchers tested what factors improve or worsen the quality of sleep in mice. A team including researchers from the ...

While some factors that improve or reduce the quality of sleep are relatively well understood, many are not. Given the impact that sleep is known to have on matters such as stress, concentration and ...

Combining small improvements to several areas of well-being could lead to bigger health gains than improving just one in ...

Mickey Mouse endures because he fits our evolved need for safe faces, shared stories, and imagination, helping us regulate ...

A mouse scurries up to six chestnuts. Three look healthy. Three have exit holes where moth larvae ate the insides before they left. What does the mouse do?

"They were teasing him, and he was trying to chase them away." The post Strange Mushroom Makes You See Tiny People Chilling ...

A salt-grain-sized neural implant can record and transmit brain activity wirelessly for extended periods. Researchers at Cornell University, working with collaborators, have created an extremely small ...

For a long time, neuroscientists treated this forgetting as a cognitive glitch or a simple lack of brainware maturity. But a ...