Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

Navigating the world is no mean feat, especially when the world pushes back. For instance, airflow hitting a fly on its right ...

Navigating a busy street, a new city, or even your own home requires more than just memory of landmarks. Deep inside your brain, specialized networks act like a compass, constantly recalibrating so ...

During brain development, neurons extend long processes called axons. Axons link different areas of the brain and carry ...

Swiss researchers have recently completed their project to digitize the first “Mouse Brain Atlas”! This remarkable ...

Neuroscientists reveal how the brain decides which locations will best anchor memories—before new experiences even happen.

To navigate, the brain must convert changing sensations into a map-like sense of the world, which remains stable as the body moves. A new study finds that the fly brain sometimes performs the ...