Strategies to make lab animals forget, remember, or experience false recollections probe how memory works, and may inspire treatments for neurological diseases.

Researchers have developed ways to manipulate neurons involved in a particular memory to make mice recall an experience or to remember something that never happened.

The plant geneticist has revolutionized researchers’ understanding of how light affects plant growth and development, and is engineering plants to combat climate change.

The click beetle’s intricate false eyes cast a deep black color with the help of pigment-coated hairs.

Flashing lights activate fly navigation neurons.

See a close-up of the deep-sea dragonfish’s transparent teeth.

Slithering snakes mimic waves of light, “diffracting” as they pass by an obstacle.

Researchers used infrared light to relieve itchy mice.

Researchers have outfitted brewer’s yeast with light-harvesting semiconductors to boost chemical productivity.