Meet The Fish That Can Change Its Sex. Hint: It Happens When Another Fish Disappears

In response to social cues, individual clownfish will switch sexes. Cutting-edge research reveals the neural and genetic ...

Common drug residues trigger synaptic damage in fish brains

Behavioral assays linked these molecular disturbances to functional outcomes. Exposed fish displayed increased locomotor ...
eLife

Compressed sensing-based approach identifies modular neural circuitry driving learned pathogen avoidance

An efficient neural screening approach rapidly identifies circuit modules governing distinct behavioral transitions in ...
Medical Xpress

Mice use their tongues to 'see' tactile targets: Neural pathway discovery could help treat neurological disorders

Chewing a bagel while reading the morning news, speaking while driving, dislodging a piece of food stuck between two teeth: In these and other tasks, the tongue and the brain coordinate intricate ...
Ars Technica

Researchers isolate memorization from problem-solving in AI neural networks

When engineers build AI language models like GPT-5 from training data, at least two major processing features emerge: memorization (reciting exact text they’ve seen before, like famous quotes or ...
Ars Technica

Researchers get spiking neural behavior out of a pair of transistors

The growing energy use of AI has gotten a lot of people working on ways to make it less power hungry. One option is to develop processors that are a better match to the sort of computational needs of ...
GEN

Key Neural Pain-Sensing Pathway Recreated in a Lab Dish

Stanford Medicine investigators have replicated, in a lab dish, one of the most prominent human nervous pathways for sensing pain. This nerve circuit transmits sensations from the body’s skin to the ...