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 ...

Artificial intelligence allows tracing the evolution of genetic control elements in the developing mammalian cerebellum.

Published January 7 in the journal Nature, one paper tackled the age-old problem of nature’s construction with a bit of a twist: it suggests that living networks, like our brain, may use some of the ...

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

The advent of military technology is rapidly giving rise to new and much more ...

It could transform our understanding of why diseases develop and the medicines needed to treat them, says researchers.

The cerebellum, often called the little brain, plays a much bigger role in language processing than once believed. Located at ...

New research suggests pain is not a simple signal of injury but a process that unfolds across nerves, spinal cord, and brain.

How do electrical signals become "about" something? Through purely physical processes, neural networks transform activity ...

Comics as a literary form probably originated in the 1830s with the Swiss cartoonist Rodolphe Töpffer (1799–1846). He created heroes who were found in interconnected stories depicted through drawings ...

Supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, which sits within the Milky Way X-ray: NASA / CXC / SAO; Optical: NASA / ESA / STScI; IR: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / Milisavljevic et al., NASA / JPL / CalTech; Image ...