Photon upconversion through high harmonic generation, multiphoton absorption, Auger recombination and phonon scattering performs a vital role in energy conversion and renormalization. Excitons, the ...

Researchers led by Hokto Kazama at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS) in Japan have discovered how animals sense ...

Plants lack nerves, yet they can sensitively detect touch from other organisms. In the Venus flytrap, highly sensitive ...

A Nature Neuroscience study finds that special "illusion-encoding" neurons in the brain's visual cortex fill in missing ...

Neuroscientists are zeroing in on how special kinds of brain cells help us see things that aren't actually there.

Alzheimer's disease is marked by the buildup of amyloid plaques in the brain, but most ways of studying these deposits in ...

A single psilocybin dose relieved chronic pain and depression-like symptoms in mice by rebalancing brain circuits that regulate mood and pain.

The secret of the Venus flytrap's deadly bite has finally been revealed. The unique touch sensor of the carnivorous plant ...

Individual retinal ganglion cells are singularly activated in the living primate retina via an adaptive optics scanning light ophthalmoscope.

In trials studying stimulus-evoked brain responses in mice, HyFMRI successfully recorded cell-type-specific calcium signaling alongside whole-brain hemodynamics, revealing new details of how ...