According to a new study in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, an extinct bird known as the dodo (Raphus cucullatus) was in fact relatively...
A new study led by Nikolaos Karalis of the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München and Dr. Cyril Herry of the Neurocentre Magendie has shed light on what...
A variety of hypotheses on how the brain folds have been proposed but none have been directly used to make testable predictions. Now, a group of scientists...
Bacteria communicate with one another through similar electrical signaling mechanisms as neurons in the human brain, a new study published in the journal...
A large international team of researchers from the Blue Brain Project has digitally reconstructed and simulated a slice of a juvenile rat’s neocortex,...
A new study published in the Journal of Neuroscience has revealed an intrinsic biological difference between males and females in the molecular regulation...
A team of neuroscientists at Duke University published two separate studies today, one involving rats and the other involving rhesus macaque monkeys, that...
A gene that is responsible for brain size in modern Homo sapiens and their ancient relatives, Neanderthals and Denisovans, has been identified by a team...
The more curious we are about a topic, the easier it is to learn information about that topic. A new study carried out by California University scientists...
In a groundbreaking study, scientists led by Dr Giulio Ruffini of Starlab Barcelona, Spain, have successfully transmitted the words ‘hola’ and ‘ciao’...
According to a new study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, rats can feel regret – a cognitive behavior once thought to be uniquely human.
Rats...
Individuals who speak two or more languages, even those who acquired the second language in adulthood, may slow down cognitive decline from aging, according...
A multinational team of researchers led by Dr Philipp Khaitovich from Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has suggested...
A new study, reported in the American Journal of Human Genetics, confirms that a gene called USP9X is critical to the earliest stages of the human brain...
Researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology have discovered that dogs communicate more information about their feelings with their tails than...
Researchers from the University of Exeter, UK, have used the functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technology to map the different ways in which...
We would like to think that scientific efforts are free of trends and human whims and proceed in a straight line for the good of humanity; but this is...
According to a study published in journal Nature Communications, sleep deprivation can make us crave junk food more than healthy food.
The study sheds...
European scientists reporting in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences have identified how unique neural pathways in the brain allows...
