Scientists have found 50 million reasons to study the brain of a fruit fly. That's how many connections they discovered in the first complete map— known as a connectome—of an adult insect's brain.

This post is in response to The Most Astounding Thing in the Universe By Robert Lanza M.D. I like this article, but it is more about consciousness than about physics. It simply is true that ...

A new study published in PNAS reveals that chronic exposure to artificial light at night (LAN) can trigger depression-like behaviors by activating a specific neural pathway in the brain. The study, ...