How's your weekend? Have you read about the muscular neutrino? It's so great. This week, we also reported on male stick ...

New research has revealed that birds, reptiles, and mammals have developed complex brain circuits independently, despite sharing a common ancestor. These findings challenge the traditional view of ...

Stressful or traumatic experiences in childhood have been shown to negatively impact an individual's health as an adult.

New studies show that bird and mammal brains evolved separately, with distinct genetic programs and developmental mechanisms.

The brains of birds and mammals have diverged substantially during the course of evolution. A research team at the Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University has investigated how similar ...

Researchers have discovered a new type of neuron that plays a fundamental role in recognition memory -- how the brain registers the difference between new and familiar objects and forms long-term ...

Three studies of the brain regions responsible for processing sensory information show that their neurons are and communicate ...

The pallium is the brain region where the neocortex forms in mammals, the part responsible for cognitive and complex ...

Two studies published in the latest issue of Science have revealed that birds, reptiles, and mammals have developed complex ...

A guardian molecule ensures that liver cells do not lose their identity. This has been discovered by researchers from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), the Hector Institute für Translational ...