Molecular discoveries may help improve treatments for labor and pain. When labor starts, the uterus must produce steady, precisely timed contractions to allow a safe delivery. Hormones such as ...

As people grow older, the same brain chemistry that once supported sharp thinking and stable mood can quietly start to work ...

The brain constantly blends split-second reactions with slower, more thoughtful processing, and new research shows how it ...

Going by his words, understanding the human brain is far more complex than comprehending the entire solar system. Veteran ...

Scientists have developed molecular devices that can switch roles, behaving as memory, logic, or learning elements within the ...

Engineers are starting to build hardware that does not just run artificial intelligence, it behaves like a primitive form of ...

Author of the recent thriller Final Orbit shares how completing crosswords with his wife is the perfect metaphor for life ...

This study presents SynaptoGen, a differentiable extension of connectome models that links gene expression, protein-protein interaction probabilities, synaptic multiplicity, and synaptic weights, and ...

A biologically grounded computational model built to mimic real neural circuits, not trained on animal data, learned a visual categorization task just as actual lab animals do, matching their accuracy ...

Researchers have engineered a next-generation glutamate sensor, iGluSnFR4, capable of detecting the faintest incoming ...

Is curing Alzheimer’s an impossible challenge or can we get there? I was invited to attend brain surgery at the forefront of ...

Prof Brennan uses a surgical drill to remove a flap of skull. The exposed brain is pink, flushed with blood, and gently ...