We can get silicon to "think" but the neuron can't be beat for efficiency. So, researchers worked to imitate it.

Neuron networks in the brains hippocampus, the memory centre, are dense with connections that appear random, but as animals ...

Scientists have finally cracked one of the biggest mysteries in the senses: how smell is organized. By mapping millions of ...

A new study reveals that neuron networks in the brain's hippocampus, the memory centre, become sparser but more structured and refined as animals mature.

A detailed receptor map shows smell neurons form structured stripes guided by molecular signals, improving our understanding ...

A new study reveals how the brain's memory centre becomes more efficient with age, shedding excess connections to sharpen ...

Scientists have created the first detailed map of smell receptors, revealing the sense of smell is far more organized than ...

Ticklish laughter appears across primates and triggers ancient brain circuits. Yet after two millennia of inquiry, its ...

Three life-science prizes were awarded for advances in gene therapies. Opthalmologists Jean Bennett and Albert Maguire, and ...

Researchers released the first detailed map of smell receptors in the nose, organized into horizontal stripes that mirror the ...

Chronic pain affects roughly 51 million adults in the United States alone, and for most of them, the available drug options remain blunt instruments: opioids that carry addiction risk, or ...