Every three minutes, someone in the UK is diagnosed with dementia. It is not an easy diagnosis to receive for the patient or ...

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 ...

Bees navigate their surroundings with astonishing precision. Their brains are now inspiring the design of tiny, low-power chips that could one day guide miniature robots and sensors.

African elephants create low rumbles that travel through the earth, letting other elephants detect messages through vibrations.

Understanding how the brain processes information remains one of science’s toughest challenges. Every thought, memory, and decision relies on neurons exchanging chemical messages at incredible speed.

This past October, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia successfully tested an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) capable of decimating coastal cities. The weapon is the most recent ...

Senior author Shannon Farris (left) and first author Renesa Tarannum of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC reported new findings in the Society for Neuroscience journal eNeuro that shed ...

This article is part of a package in collaboration with Forbes on time capsules, preserving information and communicating with the future. Read more from the report. After my grandmother died, we had ...

An axon in a developing brain is faced with a monumental challenge: finding its one perfect partner among billions of other neurons. The human brain contains roughly 100 trillion synapses, each the ...

Motor neurons are some of the largest cells in the human body. In particular, upper neurons—extending from the cerebral cortex to the brain stem or spinal cord—average 60μm in diameter. 3,4 These ...

Meta has confirmed to TechCrunch that it will soon begin testing a monthly limit on how many messages users and businesses can send to people who haven’t replied. From the report: “All messages users ...

WhatsApp is attempting to solve its spam problem by curbing how many messages individual users and businesses can send to unknown people without getting a response. While the app started as an easy ...