Scientists have long known that the brain's visual system isn't fully hardwired from the start—it becomes refined by what ...

First devised by Zoltan Takats, a chemist and professor at Imperial College London, the technology consists of a needle-like ...

Scientists have long known that the brain's visual system isn't fully hardwired from the start—it becomes refined by what babies see—but the authors ...

Elizabeth Jonas first got interested in mitochondria by chance. In 1995, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Yale, working ...

Scientists have discovered that forming a mental map of a new environment takes more than just recognizing individual ...

Australian start-up Cortical Labs and UK’s bit.bio have built CL1 with the aim of creating ‘synthetic biological intelligence’ ...

A study reveals that our moments of mental wandering could prepare the brain to learn more effectively. Far from being wasted time, this passive exploration would build internal models of the world.

Cryoelectron microscopy is a method for imaging frozen-hydrated specimens at cryogenic temperatures by electron microscopy. Specimens remain in their native state without the need for dyes or ...

Electron microscopy uses a beam of electrons to illuminate a sample and achieve much higher spatial resolution than light microscopy. Transmission electron microscopy generates an image of the ...