Using an aging clock, researchers from the University of Cologne have used the Caenorhabditis elegans model organism to ...

I still vividly remember the first time we observed neurons responding not to audible sound, but to concentrated, precisely calibrated ultrasonic pulses. On the screen in front of us, calcium signals ...

Handwriting requirements were cut from school curricula around the world. Now it’s looping back, riding on a wave of evidence.

Scientists rebuilt human brain circuits in the lab and discovered that the thalamus acts as a central organizer of cortical wiring. The findings offer new insight into how brain networks form and why ...

Children learn long before they speak in full sentences. They watch faces, shoulders, hands, and pauses. A sigh after work, a ...

Screens today have gone from being helpful tools to something young children depend on too much. Doctors and child experts ...

How do we hear, and how does hearing affect how we play music? These questions are central to the work of Nikolas Alejandro Francis, 44, an assistant professor in the University of Maryland’s Biology ...

Although he's been dishing out this unusual parenting advice, Mellencamp said his son Hud might join the workforce soon John Mellencamp is sharing the unusual parenting advice he tells his kids The ...

The nervous system does an astonishing job of tracking sensory information, and does so using signals that would drive many computer scientists insane: a noisy stream of activity spikes that may be ...

UMass Amherst engineers have built an artificial neuron powered by bacterial protein nanowires that functions like a real one, but at extremely low voltage. This allows for seamless communication with ...