Eight years of work. A collaboration between the Laboratory of Neuroethology of Non-Human Primates of the Department of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Parma, led by Luca Bonini, and a team ...

Blood vessels in the brain rhythmically constrict and dilate to drive waves of cleansing fluid through the organ.

Among the important scientific discoveries made every year are some that reveal that the world is way weirder than we give it ...

The world of mixology is like a mad scientist’s lab as bartenders experiment with different techniques to enhance the flavor ...

European scientists are turning an aircraft into a laboratory that simulates lunar gravity to prepare astronauts and technology for future moon landings as part of the NASA-led Artemis missions. The ...

Check out the Mad Scientist Laboratory website for a complete review of conference highlights, discussions, and a full conference report to be published in early 2025. Videos of each presentation ...

By following the connections throughout the insect’s brain, scientists are even beginning to parse which parts of the organ have certain functions. They created a computerized version of the ...

Why is it better? Personality patterns can be mapped on scans that measure brain activity. Personality types, on the other hand, cannot. Interpersonal neurobiology is the connection between our ...

To discover how brain cells respond to microgravity, scientists sent tiny clumps of ... To avoid the need for lab work on the ISS, the team pioneered a method for growing smaller-than-usual ...

This breakthrough provides scientists with a powerful new tool to study brain functions under controlled lab conditions. “Neurons that fire together, wire together” describes the neural plasticity ...

They don't accurately represent how a real brain ... in the lab is because the systems are much simpler," remarks Hideaki Yamamoto (Tohoku University), "Lab-grown neurons allow scientists to ...

Oxford University Press has chosen “brain rot” as its word of the year. The word is defined as “supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as a ...