Researchers at University of Tsukuba have achieved a significant breakthrough by employing scatterometry, a technique ...

Super-resolution microscopes have revealed a whole new type of connection between neurons in mouse and human brains. In the ...

Acute or short-lived pain, despite its bad reputation, is usually a lifesaver. It acts as a transient negative sensory ...

A groundbreaking study conducted by engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has developed an artificial neuron ...

Researchers have long believed that neurons rely on glucose nearly entirely for fuel. The brain’s enormous energy ...

Mirror neurons, in Heyes' view, aren't evolved specifically “for” understanding, imitation, or any other purpose – rather, they're simply ordinary motor-cortex neurons that happen to take on special ...

UMass Amherst engineers have built an artificial neuron powered by bacterial protein nanowires that functions like a real one ...

“It’s possible that the mice weren’t seeing them,” admits Shin, “because the technique has involved a relatively small number ...

This balance—neurons as the silent bee workers, waves as the queen’s rhythm holding the hive together—suggests consciousness ...

A team at University of Massachusetts Amherst developed artificial neurons that fire in the same voltage range as living ...

Researchers have pinpointed specific brain cells that control how animals react to social defeat, offering new insight into the biology of dominance and submission.

Activating specific neurons in a part of the brain that serves as the body's master circadian pacemaker caused mice to eat ...