Researchers at Cortical Labs in Australia have attached lab-grown neurons to a robotic dog and used them to steer it toward a ...

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Some countries are introducing sweeping social-media bans for young people, but the impact of screen time is still under ...

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A new mini-review proposes that durable senescence-like states in dorsal root ganglion sensory neurons may help explain why ...

Some people have the telltale signs of Alzheimer's in their brains yet never develop dementia. Scientists think they may know ...

Salve Regina senior Gloria Doliscar’s summer research found that when transcranial electrical stimulation is used, cells that ...

A 16-week study suggests that eating 60 grams of peanuts daily may improve how older brains respond to insulin and boost ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, reveals how psilocybin, the psychoactive compound ...

The Simons Foundation is launching the Simons Collaboration on Brain Energetics (SCOBE), a 10-year initiative to understand how energy constraints shape neural computation. Researchers will study ...

For most animals, the need for sleep gradually increases during waking hours and then decreases while sleeping. In neuroscience, this accumulating need to sleep is known as sleep pressure.

There are more than 1.5 million known zoological species on Earth, with at least as many enigmas. Here are our top 10.