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Studying the earliest events in visual development, Carla Shatz has learned the importance of looking at one’s data with open eyes—and an open mind.
This animation illustrates optogenetics—a radical new technology for controlling brain activity with light. Ed Boyden, the co-inventor of this technology, is a professor at the MIT Media Lab and at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, where he continues to develop new technologies for controlling brain activity.
United Nation officials declare rinderpest the first animal disease to be fully eradicated.
Scientists invent a method to control the timing and duration of sleep in fruit flies and find that snoozing helps form long-term memories
Whether it’s in the arctic or a commonplace kitchen appliance, deadly fungal species wait for the right opportunity to strike
Flying in a flock comes at a considerable energetic cost for pigeons, raising the question of why they do it
Researchers seeking a link between vision problems and the dangerous physiological effects of hypoxia in mountain climbers are taking their work to new heights.