Researchers from Sweden have discovered that the human brain continues to grow new cells in the memory region—called the hippocampus—even into old age. Using advanced tools to examine brain samples ...

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Incoming information from the retina is channeled into two pathways in the brain's visual system: one that's responsible for ...

Scientists say they have very strong evidence that the adult human brain is capable of making new neurons, a point of ongoing ...

In a peer-reviewed paper published in 2022 in the journal Science Advances, researchers from the University of Aberdeen and ...

There’s still a lot we don’t know about the brain, but so far experts have agreed that our thoughts, feelings and behavior ...

Topology in neuroscience: The image attempts to illustrate something that can not be imaged – a universe of multi-dimensional structures and spaces. On the left is a digital copy of a part of the ...

Fred Hutch researchers have created a gene-expression map of glial cells of the tiny worm, C. elegans, adding the missing ...

A new discovery of how bees use their flight movements to facilitate remarkably accurate learning and recognition of complex visual patterns could mark a major change in how next-generation AI is ...

WEIGHT loss, warding off dementia, ‘curing’ diabetes and now… anti-ageing powers? Is there anything the so-called fat jabs can’t do? While a medicine that reverses the clock would be a ...

A new discovery of how bees use their flight movements to facilitate remarkably accurate learning and recognition of complex visual patterns could ...

First devised by Zoltan Takats, a chemist and professor at Imperial College London, the technology consists of a needle-like ...