Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have identified three types of nerve cells connected to the intestinal villi, suggesting ...

These are nerves that go from the brain and brain stem to the eyes, nose, ears, tongue, face and shoulders. Cranial nerves carry messages from these areas about sensations such as taste, smell, sight ...

In the future, quantum technology will become the standard for extremely fast computers. These kinds of machines will be important in everything from space technology to mineral exploration and ...

What happens in the brains of these insects during sleep turns out to be not so different from what occurs in the human brain when we sleep. In other words, sleep appears to carry the same ...

The human brain, often hailed as nature’s most powerful computer, is surprisingly slow when it comes to handling information. While our senses gather a mountain of data every second, our actual ...

What’s more, recent research shows that some of these can cross the barrier designed to stop toxins from getting from blood vessels into brain tissues. Exactly if and how this might mess with ...

Researchers have discovered distinct roles for two dopamine receptors located on nerve cells within the portion of the brain that controls approach vs. avoidance behavior. Mount Sinai researchers ...

Cortical Labs out of Melbourne, Australia has created the CL1, the “world’s first code deployable biological computer” that runs on living, lab-grown human brain cells. Bonus: it is now available for ...

From birth to the last moments of life, the human brain is known to change and evolve significantly, both in terms of its physical organization (i.e., structural connectivity) and the coordination ...

Credit: SciTechDaily.com A landmark experiment has pitted two major theories of consciousness against each other in a massive, collaborative brain study. After seven years of work, researchers have ...