
Eye Treatment Stretches Mouse Sight Beyond Visible Spectrum
Nanoparticles that attach to photoreceptors allowed mice to see infrared and near-infrared light for up to two months.

Eye Treatment Stretches Mouse Sight Beyond Visible Spectrum
Nanoparticles that attach to photoreceptors allowed mice to see infrared and near-infrared light for up to two months.

Does the Nose Talk to the Womb?
Research suggests that the course of a pregnancy may be shaped by a man’s odor

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What Does a Guilty Brain Look Like?
Behavioral biomarkers and the new science of neuroprediction

Decoding a Disorder at the Interface of Mind and Brain
A mysterious condition once dismissed as hysteria is challenging the divide between neurology and psychiatry

Conservative and Liberal Brains Might Have Some Real Differences
Scanners try to watch the red-blue divide play out underneath the skull

The Science of Nerdiness
It’s a neurotransmitter thing

AI Assesses Alzheimer’s Risk by Analyzing Word Usage
New models used writing samples to predict the onset of the disease with 70 percent accuracy

Our Brain Is Better at Remembering Where to Find Brownies Than Cherry Tomatoes
Humans’ spatial recall makes mental notes about the location of high-calorie foods

New Tinnitus Treatment Alleviates Annoying Ringing in the Ears
A noninvasive device designed to rewire brain circuits reduced symptoms of tinnitus in a large, exploratory clinical trial

These Researchers Are Putting Fly Babies into Virtual Reality
A new system called PiVR creates working artificial environments for small animals such as zebra fish larvae and fruit flies. Developers say the system’s affordability could help expand research into animal behavior.

How Decoding Dyslexia Can Help Decode the Mind
Most people think it’s only a reading disorder—but it’s also a speech processing disorder

Bird Brains Are Far More Humanlike Than Once Thought
The avian cortex had been hiding in plain sight all along. Humans were just too birdbrained to see it