How the brain generates movement is not fully understood. This work uses neural network ensembles to infer likely inputs to a brain area from real neural data. In motor cortex of reaching monkeys, ...

Personalities in the animal kingdom can dictate everything from the hunting tactics of spiders to how long chimpanzee mothers ...

Lead-based light-emitting materials are widely studied for their light-emission properties. But lead contaminates the ...

The world’s farms depend on synthetic nitrogen fertilizers to increase crop yields, but the production and use of these ...

A promising biotechnology company developed a new approach that might treat a rare disease — but its sole employee didn’t do ...

A combination of body and organ-function metrics does better at classifying obesity than does body mass index.

Technology is making biological studies more powerful than ever. But people are the real force behind discovery.

A map of the movements of Brazilian wildlife and their exposure to human activities can inform protection initiatives.

One of Saturn’s rings consists of a diverse population of icy and rocky grains, each with a distinct composition. How this came about might now have an explanation.

The brain relies on crucial proteins to maintain neurons. This system is disrupted in mice with neurological disease.

Picture produced by fresh analysis of the data that yielded the first-ever image of a black hole outputs the same, ring-like ...

Zircon crystals found in some of Earth’s oldest rocks suggest that the source rock was once buried about 50 kilometres into ...