Humans and many other animals can innately recognize familiar objects in their surroundings, irrespective of the angle they are observed from, changes in lighting or other shifts in the surrounding ...

In a groundbreaking study, mice and AI agents independently learned to cooperate on tasks, revealing shared principles of ...

Anxiety is often described as a whole‑brain problem, but a series of mouse experiments suggests that, in some cases, a single misfiring circuit can tip the balance between calm and fear. By nudging ...

Scientist Laura Soucek, who removed tumors from rodents almost 20 years ago, invokes the ‘moral duty’ not to generate false expectations after Mariano Barbacid’s announcement ...

Food poisoning isn’t an experience you’re likely to forget — and now, scientists know why. A study published April 2 in Nature has unraveled neural circuitry in mice that makes food poisoning so ...

A confocal microscopy image of doublecortin-stained newborn neurons (pink) and nuclear stain DAPI (green), which shows that neurogenesis is occurring in the brain of a normal mouse. Scientists at ...