How do nervous systems produce behaviors? A new MIT study provides a detailed mechanistic mapping of exactly what happens in ...

If you know the gesture for "six seven" (whatever that means), ever described someone as having "negative aura," or instinctively sent a viral reaction GIF instead of using plain old emojis, there's a ...

In this video I walk you through real donated human brains to explore how the nervous system actually looks and works. I ...

Clinical therapist Hattie Awe, LPC, shared a video laying out three things she tells her patients all the time.

Researchers have demonstrated a new class of low-cost, scalable sensors that can be used to monitor electrical activity in ...

In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers demonstrate that functional nervous systems can form within self-organized living cellular robots, conferring complex movement patterns and distinct gene ...

Biobots, whose growing line of variants started with xenobots, are fascinating tiny self-powered living robots built exclusively using frog embryonic cells. Originally developed in the laboratories of ...

New research on heart rate variability suggests that composure isn’t a personality trait. It’s a physiological skill the nervous system can train—one that may determine who thrives when the stakes are ...

“Me everyday bc my nervous system doesn’t know the difference between a busy day at work or being attacked by a tiger,” a TikTok post reads. The sentiment is the same across dozens of videos online.

Heart attacks are often thought of as a plumbing issue, the result of a blockage preventing blood from flowing through one of the heart’s major thoroughfares. But scientists studying the heart’s ...