It may not give you overnight martial arts skills, but it could hook your brain up to the ultimate internet—unlocking the ability to summon answers to your questions in an instant, or even ...

PRINCETON, N.J. — For the first time, neuroscientists have just finished mapping out the entire brain of an adult fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster). The research reveals the most complete map of a ...

“You might be asking why we should care about the brain of a fruit fly,” Seung tells the Guardian’s Ian Sample. “My simple answer is that if we can truly understand how any brain ...

For any newcomers joining us, here’s how to play Quordle: Just start typing in words. You have four five-letter words to guess and nine attempts to find them all. The catch is that you play all ...

Scientists have mapped out how 140,000 neurons are wired in the brain of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. By Carl Zimmer A fruit fly’s brain is smaller than a poppy seed, but it packs ...

For many heartbreaking diseases of the brain — dementia, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and others — doctors can only treat the symptoms. Medical science does not have a cure. Why? Because it’s difficult to ...

The brain is your body’s command center. It powers all of your body’s mechanisms and processes: how you run and dance and figure out a waiter’s tip, your hunger for chocolate or roast ...

Previous researchers mapped the brain of a C. elegans worm, with its 302 neurons, and the brain of a larval fruit fly, which had 3,000 neurons, but the adult fruit fly is several orders of ...

Mapping the brain is a daunting task because it contains a huge number of cells and cell connections. It took almost 50 labs around the world to create a new neural map, or connectome, of an adult ...

When this happens, it’s inevitable to worry that you might be losing your mind. After all, the brain—like all our organs—inexorably declines over time. If you think there is nothing that can ...

Deep brain stimulation may provide immediate improvement in arm and hand strength and function weakened by traumatic brain injury or stroke. Deep brain stimulation may provide immediate ...

Today’s Strands is kind of tricky, though it depends on your interests I suppose. As someone not very familiar with what the theme ended up being, I was a bit lost and confused with some of ...