It’s not easy living the high life. Take it from the Andean leaf-eared mouse, Earth’s highest-dwelling mammal. To tolerate ...

Living at altitudes with less than half the oxygen at sea level, these mice have adapted to their environment in unique ways ...

Consider a neural implant dubbed the Microscale Optoelectronic Tetherless Electrode, or MOTE, developed at Cornell University ...

Have you ever picked up a piece of fruit and taken one deep sniff to see if it was ripe? It turns out that mice do something ...

A breakthrough study revealed a primitive brain region that acts as a built-in filter to block out a noisy world.

Scientists find cognitive flexibility problems may signal Alzheimer's warning signs months before memory loss appears The ...

Picture a mouse taking rapid, staccato sniffs of a crumb it's found while foraging for food. Now compare that with a human, ...

The Multi-Sensory Convergence Ladder: As signals ascend deeper into the fish’s forebrain, specifically into a structure called the pallium, single-sense neurons give way to multi-sensory cells. This ...

Summary: Researchers reveal a deeply unified mammalian brain blueprint for olfaction. By tracking free-roaming mice with high-velocity robotic cameras and recording directly from the olfactory bulbs ...

Picture a mouse taking rapid, staccato sniffs of a crumb it's found while foraging for food. Now compare that with a human leaning in for a single, deep inhale to gauge whether a cantaloupe is ripe.

A new study shows how cats age in a remarkably similar way to humans, and this may be useful for geriatric medicine.

Nuttida Rungratsameetaweemana is challenging a story neuroscience has told for decades. According to the conventional account, our eyes collect raw ...