Researchers published a complete map of a male fruit fly’s nervous system, and programmers are already making it play video ...

A new map of the adult male fruit fly brain and nerve cord includes over 166,000 neurons and the millions of connections between them.

BFI London Film Festival 2026 premieres two films with unexpected scientific depth: Duncan Jones's Rogue Trooper, the first ...

Broken Saintess Season 2 premieres October 1, 2026 on TV Kanagawa with new director Saya Fukase. The anime's ...

In cell culture labs around the world, human brain organoids live out their short lives as neural guinea pigs, testing the effects of diseases, toxins, and new pharmaceuticals. But they may soon be on ...

As newborn neurons make their way through the developing brain, they must squeeze through incredibly tight spaces to reach their final destinations. Researchers discovered that this physical journey ...

When you get up out of a chair, your blood pressure instantly increases to compensate for the movement and keep you from fainting. For decades researchers thought neurons called baroreceptors in ...

For decades, multiple sclerosis research has focused on myelin, the insulation around the brain’s wiring, which gets worn away in MS. Scientists paid less attention to another loss that was happening ...

In a new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Nature Neuroscience, researchers have identified the neurogenic progenitor that gives rise to dopaminergic neurons, the primary neurons affected ...

New experiments reveal how astrocytes tune neuronal activity to modulate our mental and emotional states. The results suggest that neuron-only brain models, such as connectomes, leave out a crucial ...

Let us begin the new year with a renewed commitment to protecting our brain health. We often hear that the mind and body are connected—and this is absolutely true. Brain health is body health.