Neuroscience

The same mental processes that organize memories may also coordinate how we make decisions.

The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to three researchers who discovered how the brain navigates the world. Their work may also help illuminate how the mind stores memories.

Our bodies are a genetic patchwork, possessing variation from cell to cell. Is that a good thing?

Support is growing for a decades-old physics idea suggesting that localized episodes of disordered brain activity help keep the overall system in healthy balance.

Scientists have finally resolved the structure of the molecule that responds to chili peppers, high temperatures and spider toxins.

Mysterious episodes of genetic duplication in our great ape ancestors may have paved the way for human evolution.

A rare brain stimulation study suggests that a brain circuit known as the “salience network” contributes to differences in our ability to overcome challenges and cope with stress.

Neuroscientists have identified a network of highly linked brain regions that could prove essential in integrating information and facilitating higher-order cognitive tasks.

New technologies have launched the life sciences into the age of big data. Biologists must now make sense of their windfall.