Neurobiology

Researchers at The Johns Hopkins University and Yale University have discovered that a specialized receptor, normally found in the nose, is also in blood vessels throughout the body, sensing small molecules created by microbes that line mammalian...

Flowers are electric billboards! Bumblebees can sense the electric fields of flowers, and detect recently visited ones. …

On the list of humanity’s priorities, tissue regeneration finds itself near the very top; together with eternal youth and immortality.

1) SEIZURES A device delivers targeted drugs to calm overactive neurons For years, large clinical trials have treated people

Publication » Re-evaluating the role of the mammillary bodies in memory.

Erin Schuman is a neurobiologist who studies synapses, the connections between neurons. She was born in San Gabriel, California, and completed her bachelor's degree in psychology at the University of

All complex correlated systems, from Arctic melt ponds to the internet, appear to be governed by the same math as a random matrix.

It may be possible to use brain technology to learn to play a piano, reduce mental stress or hit a curve ball with little or no conscious effort, new research suggests. It's the kind of thing seen in Hollywood's "Matrix" franchise.

Tongueduino (credit: Gershon Dublon, Joseph A. Paradiso) Gershon Dublon of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has devised the Tongueduino --- a small

Chimpanzees have a faster working memory than humans according to a remarkable study showing that it takes them a fraction of a second to remember something that it would take several seconds for humans to memorise.

(Medical Xpress)—Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine have discovered that a protein called Jagged-1 stimulates human stem cells to differentiate into bone-producing cells.