Maria is a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, where she studies how neurons and astrocytes influence each other in regulating degradative pathways. She is passionate about the ...

Do you know that feeling when you help someone without thinking—like holding a door open or offering a kind word, and it just feels surprisingly good? Even when there was nothing in it for you?

It’s almost 1 a.m. Your test is in seven hours, and you’ve read the same three pages so many times that the words have started to blur. But it feels like you’re absorbing the information. Each ...

As spooky season descends upon us, it’s intriguing to explore the connections between neuroscience and a Halloween classic: the zombie. While the introduction of zombism to fiction can be attributed ...

Imagine standing in line at a café when someone blatantly cuts ahead of you. A flash of indignation flares up – “Hey, that’s not fair!” On the other hand, think about how you would feel when a ...

The idea that octopuses might be aliens emerged from the theory of panspermia (Steele et al., 2018), according to which life on Earth is not entirely of terrestrial origin, and microorganisms may have ...

La semana pasada, el presidente Obama anunció la Iniciativa de Investigación del Cerebro a través del Avance de Neurotecnologías Innovadoras (BRAIN), un proyecto de 10 años para trazar un esquema del ...

Since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, personalized information is now accessible to anyone online. Following the introduction of ChatGPT, other generative AI tools such as Claude, DeepSeek, and Grok ...

In the early 20th century, pioneering neurosurgeon Dr. Wilder Penfield made a groundbreaking discovery. While in the operating room, Penfield stimulated various regions of the motor cortex of his ...

Artificial intelligence and large-language models (LLMs) are now regularly used, with users touting their convenience, creativity, and productivity. This fits into the broader human tendency to take ...

Articolo originale: How the Olfactory System Makes You Run Toward Pumpkin Spice Lattes, and Away From Rotting Flesh, Ayushe Sharma e Brandon Mitchell Tradotto da Rebecca Uzzi ~~~ Mentre cammini per… ...

When we see, it feels as if we are simply looking through small windows onto the world, making it easy to forget about the extensive processing the visual system must carry out. Language has the same ...