Neuroscience

  1. Neuroscience

    Giggling rats help reveal how brain creates joy

    Rats relish a good tickle, which activates nerve cells in a part of the brain that detects touch.

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  2. Neuroscience

    Shape-shifting molecule aids memory in fruit flies

    A prionlike protein may store long-term memories in fruit flies, a new study suggests.

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  3. Neuroscience

    Eyes offer window into brain’s timekeepers

    In new experiments of time perception, when pupils were large, monkeys underestimated a second.

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  4. Neuroscience

    Frequent liars show less activity in key brain structure

    Brain activity changed as people lied more, a new study finds.

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  5. Genetics

    Zika disrupts cellular processes to impair brain development

    Discoveries about how Zika virus slows brain cell development could lead to treatments.

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  6. Neuroscience

    Mice smell, share each other’s pain

    Pain can jump from one mouse to another, presumably through chemicals detected by the nose.

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  7. Animals

    Melatonin makes midshipman fish sing

    Melatonin lets people sleep but starts male midshipman fish melodiously humming their hearts out.

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  8. Neuroscience

    Out-of-sync body clock causes more woes than sleepiness

    The ailment, called circadian-time sickness, can be described with Bayesian math, scientists propose.

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  9. Animals

    Be careful what you say around jumping spiders

    Sensitive leg hairs may let jumping spiders hear sounds through the air at much greater distances than researchers imagined.

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  10. Animals

    Bees take longer to learn floral odors polluted by vehicle fumes

    Car and truck exhaust mingling with a floral scent can slow down the important process of honeybees learning the fragrance of a flower.

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  11. Neuroscience

    Nerve cell migration after birth may explain infant brain’s flexibility

    A large group of neurons migrates into babies’ frontal lobes after birth.

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  12. Animals

    Primitive signs of emotions spotted in sugar-buzzed bumblebees

    When bumblebees eat a sugary snack, they make more optimistic decisions, a new study finds. This could be early evidence for emotion in insects.

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