Neuroscience made simpler.
The brain, explained — reference entries and stories, written and reviewed by people who study it.
A human brain organoid wired to a chip improved at telling eight male speakers apart from Japanese vowel sounds, from about 51 to 78 percent in two days.
Twelve short lessons that start where you do — with what you see, feel, remember and forget — and show you the brain behind it. No background needed.
Explore the structures of the brain, one entry at a time.
Most of what we “know” about Phineas Gage was written after he died. The real story says more about how people recover from brain injuries.
Glial Cells
For much of the history of neuroscience, glial cells were treated like…
Sodium-Potassium Pump
The sodium-potassium pump (also known as the Na+/K+ pump or Na+/K+-ATPase) is…
Conflict days still came with worse mood, hug or no hug. The study, built on calls made years earlier for two cold-virus experiments, could…
In a lab study of couples, women's average pain score from a heated probe was 52 with their partners in the next room and…
