A team of researchers from Penn State and New York University has deconstructed an important "biological clock" in the zebra finch brain and found that the "wires" between neurons, called axons ...

Just like ChatGPT and other generative language models train on human texts to create grammatically correct sentences, a new ...

Brain samples contained 10 times more microplastics than other organs. The brain may contain higher -- and more significant -- amounts of microplastics than other organs in the body, according to ...

A man with paralysis who had electrodes implanted in his brain can pilot a virtual drone through an obstacle course simply by imagining moving his fingers. His brain signals are interpreted by an ...

That's what the findings of new research on a common backyard bird, the house finch, imply. A groundbreaking pangenomic study has revealed a major DNA flip that appears to have made the small bird ...

Cognitively normal human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards of plastic than samples collected eight years prior, according to a new study. Overall ...

CRISPR/cas9 is generally successful in a variety of animals, but as demonstrated in zebra finch, the road to genetic editing is not always straightforward. Imaging of specific neurons or areas of the ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Anthony Edwards retreated to the backcourt to grab the inbound pass and had 5 seconds to make something happen. As he pushed up the court, the Memphis Grizzlies surrounded him ...

They removed a slaughterhouse pig’s brain from its head and deprived it of oxygen at room temperature for four hours. Then, they hooked it up to their resuscitation machine and revived it—to ...

Globally, more than 140 million females give birth yearly, with previous neuroimaging research identifying significant brain architecture remodeling accompanying the process. These studies suggest ...