The Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in South Korea has developed a fully biodegradable artificial ...

Brain scans of thousands of people revealed that the human brain has five distinct eras, with turning points in the way it is ...

New research from Colorado State University into the ways neurons regulate chemical balance in the brain could provide ...

In the brain, highly specific connections called synapses link nerve cells and transmit electrical signals in a targeted manner. Despite decades of research, how synapses form during brain development ...

Scientists have engineered a protein able to record the incoming chemical signals of brain cells (as opposed to just their ...

Co-written with Jai Liester. Silent synapses represent one of neuroscience's most fascinating discoveries—connections between neurons that lie dormant until activated by specific triggers. These ...

Scientists can finally hear the brain’s quietest messages—unlocking the hidden code behind how neurons think, decide, and ...

Fruit flies are excellent research models, in part because it is so easy and inexpensive to raise them, and also because they are so well characterized. The DNA of these insects is estimated to be ...