Brain tissue is an optical mess. Water, lipids, and tangled cellular membranes all bend light in different directions. If ...

Virtual reality headsets like the Meta Quest or Apple Vision Pro will be a Christmas gift in more than one home this year. Now mice are getting in on the action. Researchers have developed a set of VR ...

Scientists at Oregon Health & Science University say they have zeroed in on a kind of brain switch that can make people hear ...

Two squirts of a nasal spray, spaced days apart, were enough to quiet overactive immune cells in the brains of aging mice and ...

The ancient Greeks were the first recorded people to dissect animals and study their insides for science some 2,400 years ago, and the practice hasn't stopped. Today, fish, dogs, cats, invertebrates, ...

Using advanced microscopes that capture brain cell anatomy and activity, a portion of a mouse's brain was mapped and rendered into a 3D atlas that creates new possibilities for neuroscience. When you ...

The brain has its own immune system, which detects threats and mounts a defense. A growing body of evidence has shown that in ...