Here's a problem that probably never crossed your mind: if you're a scientist studying the microscopic roundworm C. elegans, how do you follow the same individual worm from the day it's born until the day it dies? These critters are about a millimeter long, they wiggle constantly, and picking them...

Imagine you've mapped every single wire in a city's electrical grid. Every connection, every junction, every tiny splice. Congratulations! You now have an incomprehensibly massive spreadsheet and absolutely no idea how the city actually powers itself. That's basically the situation neuroscientists...

Here's a plot twist in neurodegeneration research: there's an immune signaling pathway that can kill neurons without actually involving the immune system. It's like finding out a fire alarm can burn down your house all by itself, no actual fire needed.

Here's a needle-in-a-haystack story with a happy ending. Leigh syndrome is a devastating genetic disease where the brain's power supply goes haywire. Patients develop severe, drug-resistant seizures that are incredibly difficult to treat. The brain has 86 billion neurons. How do you figure out...

Within days or weeks after giving birth, some women experience something terrifying. Not the exhaustion everyone warns about. Not the hormone-fueled tearfulness of the "baby blues." Something far more severe: full-blown psychosis. Mania that comes out of nowhere. Delusions that the baby is...

Reaching for your coffee cup feels simple, but neurologically speaking, it's ridiculously complicated. A study in Cell Reports shows that movement information isn't just hanging out in the motor cortex like the textbooks suggest. It's distributed across large swaths of the brain, and researchers...

Here's a thought that should humble every philosopher, physicist, and person who's ever said "I think, therefore I am": what if your brain's primary function isn't thinking at all? What if all that reasoning, planning, and deep contemplation is basically a side project?

Neural imaging at high speeds produces noisy data. Self-supervised denoising helps, but existing methods are too slow for real-time use. A study in Nature Communications introduces FAST - a framework that cleans neural recordings faster than most cameras can capture them.

Predictive coding is everywhere in neuroscience. It has been for years. The theory claims the brain constantly predicts incoming sensory information, with feedback signals suppressing neurons whose activity matches predictions. It is elegant, computationally appealing, and according to a review in...

Laboratory neuroscience has long simplified behavior to its bare essentials. But there's a growing movement to study more naturalistic actions. A review in Trends in Neurosciences argues that foraging - the search for food and resources - offers an ideal framework for this shift.