A recent study published in Perception suggests that playing outdoor sports improves peripheral color detection. The findings ...

Scientists have uncovered surprising complexity in a tiny sensory structure found in comb jellies, some of the oldest animals on Earth.

Advanced 3D reconstructions of the comb jelly’s aboral organ reveal a sensory system far more complex than scientists expected. The organ contains a wide variety of specialized cells and is closely ...

New 3D reconstructions of a key sensory organ in ctenophores reveal an unexpected structural and functional complexity. The ...

Examining brain plasticity and its implications for development, aging, and brain injury recovery.

“Our brains are very malleable,” lead researcher Erik Wing, a research associate at York University in Toronto, explained. Wait, what exactly is neuroplasticity? Neuroplasticity is basically the ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Laura holds ...

Isaiah Kletenik receives funding from the NIH. Nothing to disclose. Christopher M. Filley does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would ...

U.S. professional rock climber Alex Honnold upped the ante during his recent urban climb in Taiwan. The daredevil athlete scaled the Taipei 101 skyscraper on Jan. 25 with no ropes or protective ...

Consciousness remains one of science’s deepest mysteries, but a new brain-stimulation technique may offer a way to probe it more directly. MIT researchers have outlined how transcranial focused ...

For much of the 20th century, scientists believed that the adult human brain was largely fixed. According to this view, the brain developed during childhood, settled into a stable form in early ...

Increasing activity in a deep-brain region can boost the immune system’s response to vaccines—and people can be trained to do it themselves using the power of brain scans and positive thinking, ...