Scientists have long known that the brain's visual system isn't fully hardwired from the start—it becomes refined by what babies see—but the authors ...

India's Group Captain Shukla Tests Brain-Control Tech Aboard ISS - Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla led an experiment aboard the ISS using near-infrared technology to ...

According to a new study, we may have been thinking about dolphins’ echolocation all wrong. Rather than using it to “see” the ...

A better understanding of human smell is emerging as scientists interrogate its fundamental elements: the odor molecules that ...

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

The small grooves on the surface of our brain may play a key role in our reasoning. A recent study reveals that their depth ...

Neuroscientists want to understand how individual neurons encode information that allows us to distinguish objects, like ...