Brain tissue is an optical mess. Water, lipids, and tangled cellular membranes all bend light in different directions. If ...

Virtual reality headsets like the Meta Quest or Apple Vision Pro will be a Christmas gift in more than one home this year. Now mice are getting in on the action. Researchers have developed a set of VR ...

Scientists at Oregon Health & Science University say they have zeroed in on a kind of brain switch that can make people hear ...

Credit: Youtube Scientists once connected living rat brain cells to a robot in a laboratory in London. The cells, kept alive in a nutrient bath, sent signals through electrodes to steer the robot's ...

Two squirts of a nasal spray, spaced days apart, were enough to quiet overactive immune cells in the brains of aging mice and ...

It just takes two sprays into the nasal cavity to make a difference. The post Scientists Intrigued by Nasal Spray That ...

Cells long thought to play a secondary role in brain function build their own far-reaching connections, a new study in mice showed. These pathways appear to connect distant regions in ways that have ...

One study found that rats emitted ultrasonic vocalizations when they were subjected to manual somatosensory stimulation, i.e., tickling. The results of this controversial research were published in ...