How does human echolocation work? Researcher found that the brain accumulates information across multiple mouth clicks to create a mental map.

Alzheimer’s disease is one of the most serious diseases in an aging society, yet the cause is often unclear and there is no appropriate treatment method. Many patients with Alzheimer’s disease develop ...

Our thoughts are specified by our knowledge and plans, yet our cognition can also be fast and flexible in handling new information. How does the well-controlled and yet highly nimble nature of ...

A wave of spatial transcriptomics studies has produced gene-expression atlases that span entire organs and whole organisms, ...

A new single-cell atlas shows how epigenetic changes reshape brain cells during aging, revealing genomic instability, ...

The brain helps us navigate through the world, but it also functions as a navigational system. This is the opinion of neuroscientist Prof. Christian Doeller, who has just been awarded the Leibniz ...

With the development of GPS, it has become common for humans to rely on the location information of their smartphones wherever they go. Experiments have shown that people who used to walk looking at ...