A new study from Austrian researchers suggests the brain begins life with an overly dense and disorganised network of ...

Manganese is not a metal most people think much about. Unlike lead or mercury, it has a benign reputation. Small amounts of ...

Scientists have created a new way to map how brain cells connect by assigning each neuron a unique molecular “barcode.” Using ...

German scientists have successfully cryopreserved adult mouse hippocampal tissue, cooling it to -196°C and later rewarming it ...

Artificial neurons could open a pathway toward computing that resembles human brain power.

Researchers use molecular barcoding to discover that Alston’s singing mice evolved complex vocalizations through targeted tripling of neural projections.

Scientists wanted to know why the chatter of Alston’s singing mice sounds so much like human conversation. What they found ...

Speech is a crowning achievement of human evolution, the skill that separates us from every other animal. So, it would stand to reason that evolving this capability required some enormous leap in ...

In mouse brain cells, and in follow-up work involving worms and human cortical neurons, the team found that many axons ...