This week, researchers reported a brain circuit linked to the intensity of political behavior. Microbiologists found that the ...

In a massive scientific effort, hundreds of researchers have helped to map the connections between hundreds of thousands of neurons in the mouse brain and then overlayed their firing patterns in ...

Stanford scientists have created a "digital twin" of a mouse brain. Just as pilots use flight simulators to safely practice ...

Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran ...

The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum (later renamed the Weston State Hospital) stands as one of America’s most significant ...

There’s something both fascinating and terrifying about standing in the shadow of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in ...

Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date — a ...

The Trump administration, pursuing its deeply skeptical approach to climate change, wants to severely cut back the research ...