Researchers discover the SELK neuron, a single-cell decision-maker in fruit flies that weighs sweet vs. bitter signals to determine whether to eat or flee.
It has long been known as the arbiter of reward in the brain, but recent findings could upend this classic theory of dopamine ...
"If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't." — Emerson M. Pugh. In a previous piece, I argued that introspection may ...
Scientists offer new insight into how the body detects light touch and how disruptions in that process may contribute to sensory disorders.
A new study suggests AI systems could be a lot more efficient. Researchers were able to shrink an AI vision model to 1/1000th ...
Researchers challenge the long-standing "neural independence" theory, showing that learning actually makes neurons more coordinated.
New research from the University of Wyoming reveals that the brain cells that control hunger may be far more adaptable during prenatal brain development than scientists previously believed. This ...
“Four minutes is too long.” That’s the note undergraduate Chris Zuo sent me along with photos of countless mosquito bites on ...
Yet swarms of fireflies clearly exercise a level of control over when they light up, and they do so only in specialized organs, and those are aspects scientists are still keen to understand better.
Every multicellular organism, from tiny worms to humans, elephants, and whales, needs a way for their cells to connect with each other to form tissues, organs, and organize their overall body plan.
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results