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 ...

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

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 ...

Scientists have mapped the sensory neurons in bone for the first time, and identified their dual role in reporting and ...

Readers are spoiled for choice when it comes to popular science reading this month, with new titles by major names including Maggie Aderin and Michael Pollan ...

An investigation by researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in the US has filled in a missing link between the toxic build-up of proteins in the neurodegenerative condition ...

Corals may look still, but they follow a daily sleep cycle. New research shows why corals rest at night while their microbes ...

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 ...

Researchers found a "garbage man" enzyme that tags toxic clumps of proteins in the brain for removal, and saw a correlation ...

Researchers have developed a way to grow a highly specialized subset of brain nerve cells that are involved in motor neuron disease and damaged in spinal injuries. Their study, published today in ...

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