In the News
October 9, 2024
How neuroscience comics add KA-POW! to the field
Q&A with Kanaka Rajan, PhD
Growth & Development
September 6, 2024
Epigenetics & The Full Story of Inheritance
Neil deGrasse Tyson interviews Bianca Jones Marlin on Startalk.
Decision Making
August 28, 2024
Your Brain Wants You To Be Curious, Not Anxious
A new neuroimaging study from the Gottlieb lab reveals how brains process curiosity — and points to a better way to approach the unknown.
Disease
June 17, 2024
The Brainstem Fine-Tunes Inflammation Throughout the Body
The evolutionarily ancient part of the brain that controls breathing and heart rate also regulates the immune system — a discovery about the brain-body axis made by the Zuker lab.
Evolution
May 16, 2024
Some mice have a cheating heart. It’s a hormonal thing, scientists find
Andrés Bendesky, MD, PhD, discusses his research on monogamous Oldfield mice.
In the News
April 16, 2024
Pleasure or Pain? He Maps the Neural Circuits That Decide.
The work of the neuroscientist Ishmail Abdus-Saboor has opened up a world of insights into precisely how much pleasure and pain animals experience during different forms of touch.
Learning & Memory
March 29, 2024
Birds create barcode-like memories to locate stored food, scientists find
The Aronov lab describes a mechanism that allows black-capped chickadees to stash and relocate huge quantities of food.
The Senses
March 8, 2024
The "shocking" tactic electric fish use to collectively sense the world
Nate Sawtell, PhD, interviewed on National Public Radio.
In the News
March 8, 2024
Weaving Together The Tapestry Of Evolutionary Biology Using Jazz
Music on the Brain, with T.K. Blue and Wyatt Toure provides a captivating synthesis of evolutionary biology and jazz.
Computation
March 5, 2024
Theoretical and computational neuroscientists net 2024 Brain Prize
Larry Abbott, Terrence Sejnowski and Haim Sompolinsky split $1.45 million in recognition of their decades of work uncovering principles of brain structure and function.