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How do you create strong, yet quick-release connections between living and non-living tissues? This is a question that continues to puzzle bioengineers who aim to create materials that bond together for advanced biomedical applications.

A key stress neurotransmitter is increased during heavy alcohol drinking, and may play a role in alcohol withdrawal symptoms, reports a new study in mice.

What happens in the human brain when we learn from positive and negative experiences? To help answer that question and better understand decision-making and human behavior, scientists are studying dopamine.

In a step toward more autonomous soft robots and wearable technologies, EPFL researchers have created a device that uses color to simultaneously sense multiple mechanical and temperature stimuli.

A class of small molecules has been shown to help mice regain brain function after a stroke, opening doors to new stroke recovery therapies.

When it comes to evoking empathy, our imagination is more powerful than we previously thought, and new research shows how the different ways to experience empathy affect our willingness to help others.

A study has found that chinstrap penguins sleep through thousands of short snoozes, each only a few seconds long.

Making an accurate model of the human visual system is one of the more ambitious goals of modern neuroscience. Researchers have now used AI-selected natural images and AI-generated synthetic images as neuroscientific tools for probing the visual processing areas of the brain.

According to a study, abnormally high levels of "good cholesterol", or HDL-C, likely caused by a metabolic disorder, are associated with an increased risk of dementia in older adults.

A new study is a proof-of-concept that functional ultrasound technology can be the basis for an "online" brain–machine interface, which reads brain activity, deciphers its meaning with decoders programmed with machine learning and consequently controls a computer that can accurately predict movement.