Your heartbeat isn’t just keeping you alive; it's also talking to your brain and shaping how you experience pain. Recent research shows that the ...

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 ...

We strive to make neuroscience accessible to anyone interested in learning about the brain. Here, you can delve into the mind via stories, infographics, interviews, and more! Learn more about who we ...

Motherhood is a profoundly life-changing experience. Pregnancy not only alters daily routines and responsibilities, it also transforms the body in remarkable ways. Organs shift to make room for a baby ...

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?

Running his hands over a red armchair, Neo murmurs with hesitation, “This isn’t real.” Gazing at him intently, Morpheus responds, “What is real? How do you define real?” In the film The Matrix, the ...

La dislexia es una dificultad inesperada para aprender a leer a pesar de tener inteligencia y visión normales y acceso a una buena educación. Hoy en día, los científicos por lo general están de ...

Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flows through your central nervous system, serving multiple roles: it protects your brain, takes out the cellular trash, and even acts as a highway for immune cells. Although ...

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 ...

Thirteen years after the first Avatar movie came out in 2009, director James Cameron invites viewers to journey back to the faraway, lush exo-moon of Pandora with a sequel: Avatar: The Way of Water.

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 ...

When a clinical trial holds the power to change who you are, do you get a say in what happens next? This question made headlines when a participant in an Australian study was forced to part with the ...