Navigating the world is no mean feat, especially when the world pushes back. For instance, airflow hitting a fly on its right ...

While probing the escape reflex in the fruit fly Drosophila, researchers at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz (JGU) and the ...

To navigate, the brain must convert changing sensations into a map-like sense of the world, which remains stable as the body moves. A new study finds that the fly brain sometimes performs the ...

Studies of brain injuries and electrical stimulation seemed to bear this out. Damaging the Broca’s area, for instance, ...

Scientists are developing a "sponge" that can soak up pain signals in the body before they reach the brain, potentially ...

If you have ever lifted a weight, you know the routine: challenge the muscle, give it rest, feed it and repeat. Over time, it ...

During brain development, neurons extend long processes called axons. Axons link different areas of the brain and carry signals within it and to the rest of the body. Growing axons "wire up" the brain ...

How do we hear, and how does hearing affect how we play music? These questions are central to the work of Nikolas Alejandro ...

A study in mice suggests infantile amnesia is not a failure of memory, but a developmentally useful process guided by brain ...

With a new year, a healthier brain can boost your happiness and career success in 2026, plus offset brain diseases, if you ...