A new model of Alzheimer's disease has been proposed, which could speed up efforts to understand and cure the complex ...

Bob Dylan famously asked, “How many roads must a man walk down, before you can call him a man?”. The power of the question is ...

A University of Ottawa neuroscientist has led a Canadian research team to reveal important new insights into the activation ...

Phase transitions, shifts between different states of matter, are widely explored physical phenomena. So far, these ...

Columbia scientists have found specialized neurons in the brains of mice that order the animals to stop eating. The findings ...

Scientists have developed a new kind of laser-based artificial neuron that mimics a biological nerve cell. This artificial ...