neuroscience

When you step outside and sense the transition from autumn to winter, or notice signals of a fast‑approaching spring, you likely experience a feeling of being transported back in time and place. Sensory stimuli have the power to involuntarily trigger such memories.

Robotic aerial vehicles designed for functions such as search and rescue need ways to avoid crashing into trees, buildings and walls. There's a lot that robot designers can learn from studying how insects conrol their flight.

Men and women have some obvious biological differences. But what about the brain? Are there such things as "female brains" and "male brains."

Here's a simple demonstration you can do with cool implications. Find a large object that is brightly colored, like a green door. Stand with that door to your side, but don't look directly at it.

Scientists recently found a way to drive a cockroach the way you might drive a car. They put electrodes in its brain, and by stimulating it in the right places they could move it around like a car.

On today's Moment of Science we're going to perform a little experiment in order to learn a little bit about the motor cortex--a strip of tissue running from ear to ear across the surface of the brain that is responsible for controlling voluntary movement.

Scientists have compared chimpanzee and bonobo brains and think their different behavior could be due to brain structure.