Neuroscience
How We Decide Where to Go
Neuroscientists discover a mechanism for brain-wide communication when selecting a route toward a destination.
How Women Came to Dominate Neuroendocrinology
A scientific field founded by men is now mostly female.
Why Is the Human Brain So Efficient?
How massive parallelism lifts the brain’s performance above that of AI.
How the Fencing Reflex Connects Life and Death
Primitive reflexes shepherd us into this world, and out.
Brains Cling to Old Habits When Learning New Tricks
Using a brain-computer interface, scientists are beginning to learn why learning is hard.
The Surprising Relativism of the Brain’s GPS
How new data is transforming our understanding of place cells.