From the moment they enter the world, kids are like sponges, soaking up vital lessons without needing words. They decode ...

New experiments reveal how astrocytes tune neuronal activity to modulate our mental and emotional states. The results suggest ...

Why do we sometimes keep eating even when we're full and other times turn down food completely? Why do we crave salty things ...

How do we hear, and how does hearing affect how we play music? These questions are central to the work of Nikolas Alejandro ...

Swiss edtech start-up Sparkli has raised $5 million of pre-seed funding as it scales and commercialises its artificial ...

The human brain contains billions of connected neurons that collectively support different mental functions, including the ...

The way the brain develops can shape us throughout our lives, so neuroscientists are intensely curious about how it happens. A new study by researchers in The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory ...

Screens today have gone from being helpful tools to something young children depend on too much. Doctors and child experts ...

The human brain must be able to link memory content to the circumstances in which it occurs. Researchers in Bonn have now discovered how the human brain uses two different groups of neurons to store ...

Scientists rebuilt human brain circuits in the lab and discovered that the thalamus acts as a central organizer of cortical wiring. The findings offer new insight into how brain networks form and why ...

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

The light-sensitive tissue of birds’ eyes is not supplied with oxygen by blood vessels – instead, it powers itself with a ...