From spines on neurons to pollen on an insect’s eye, the winners of Nikon’s Small World photo contest offer a kaleidoscopic ...

This took about three hours of precise observation under the microscope to capture the right moment, involving many attempts ...

Princeton University scientists have mapped the brain of an adult fruit fly, making major strides to better understand the ...

Live imaging at single-vesicle resolution reveals rabphilin-3A as the first identified negative regulator of neuropeptide release in mammalian neurons.

What actually happens in the brain in cases of depression? Relatively unknown brain cells—"astrocytes"—are believed to play ...

Stanford researchers gained new insights into how to promote neuron growth, how oceans absorb carbon dioxide more slowly than ...