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Brains made of neurons from two species raise new concerns.

The insect-cognition researcher has done his work across continents, but Argentina is never far from his mind.

An omitted citation in a high-profile paper led us to examine our own practices and to help others adopt tools that promote citation diversity.

As the U.S. Congress begins to discuss federal science funding for 2025, any plans to compensate for this year’s cuts to the neuroscience program face an uphill battle.

The French researcher’s accomplishments working with chinstrap penguins in the Antarctic highlight the importance of recording sleep in the wild.

This mashup of neuroscience, artificial intelligence and even linguistics and philosophy of mind aims to crack the deep question of what “understanding” is, however un-brain-like its models may be.

New research is resurfacing old ideas about where the protein forms the disease’s hallmark plaques.

Old heuristics to acknowledge contributors—calling out first and last authors, with everyone else in between—don’t work well for large collaborative and interdisciplinary projects, yet they remain the default.

Emerging methods make it possible to combine the two tactics from opposite ends of the analytic spectrum, enabling scientists to have their cake and eat it too.

As a new professor, I was caught off guard by one part of the job: my role as an evaluator.

Her advocacy work aided the discovery of a rare inherited form of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease and helped connect affected people with researchers.

Follow these four tips to avoid using the information in problematic ways, including as a proxy for environmental variables.

The feedback could lead to “novel ways” to conduct studies and reduce health disparities, a National Institutes of Health employee says.

Sympathetic neurons pepper the embryos of the jawless fish—Earth’s first vertebrates—and overturn the idea that “fight or flight” was an innovation of jawed vertebrates.

The facility’s institutional review board failed to report a 2021 incident and “serious and ongoing noncompliance” by a principal investigator, according to a letter released by the federal agency this week.

We found an issue with a specific type of brain imaging study and tried to share it with the field. Then the backlash began.

Technological advancements have made it possible to study animals in more natural settings, but researchers are debating what that really means and whether natural is always better.

The U.S. National Institutes of Health wants to regulate research involving cephalopods. But there aren’t enough rigorous studies to base the regulations on, veteran cephalopod researchers say.

The retraction follows an editorial expression of concern that the journal applied to the paper in October, seven months after it was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Activity in the tiny brain region helps submissive rodents learn to avoid aggressors, and aggressive mice to curb their attacks, according to two recent studies.

The award-winning researcher’s discoveries have changed the way we think about the brain; that’s exactly what her critics dislike.

The cerebellum swelled in size before flight evolved among modern birds’ dinosaur ancestors, according to a new comparison of fossilized skulls and living birds.

New technology that delivers much more than a simple DNA sequence could have a major impact on brain research, enabling researchers to study transcript diversity, imprinting and more.

To make data truly reusable, we need to invest in data curators, who help people enter the information into repositories.

People with electrodes embedded deep in their brain are collaborating with a growing posse of plucky researchers to uncover the mysteries of real-world recall.