Mirror-image nerve cells, tight bonds between neuron pairs and surprising axon swirls abound in a bit of gray matter smaller than a grain of rice.

Scientists successfully entangled quantum memories linked by telecommunications fibers across two different urban environments.

A study in mice looked at how feelings of reward and withdrawal that opioids trigger play out in two separate circuits in the brain.

Ice’s weirdly slick exterior might originate from the boundaries between two different types of ice that form on the surface of frozen water.

Young people’s use of diabetes and weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy is surging, especially among females ages 18 to 25.

An experiment studying the neutrino’s “wave packet” sets a limit on the uncertainty of the subatomic particle’s position.

These findings suggest the plague could spread through lice bites — a new way for lice to spread disease. Body lice spread other bacterial diseases, including trench fever and typhus, to people when ...

Deciphering the messages that the heart sends to the brain could lead to new anxiety treatments and even unlock the secrets of consciousness.

The book explains how the race for ocean resources from fish to ores to new medicines — the Blue Acceleration — is playing out.

By 6 months old, young orangutans are experimenting with construction materials, and by 6 years old, they are building platforms 20 meters in the air.

MaNana isn’t a real company. However, it’s possible with today’s generative AI technology to use data from a grandparent who has died to create an interactive deepfake bot. Researchers used a research ...

Hundreds, not thousands, occupied the Turkish site of Çatalhöyük nearly 9,000 years ago, undermining arguments for a Neolithic social revolution.