Researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience have become the first to fully characterize cell activity from a ...

For most of photography’s roughly 200-year history, altering a photo convincingly required either a darkroom, some Photoshop ...

A vesicle, only a few nanometers in size and filled with neurotransmitters, approaches a cell membrane, fuses with it, and ...

Have you ever sat quietly in a chair, attempting to relax, only to be interrupted by a sudden itch on your foot or a tingling ...

A new peer-reviewed study led by scientists at the Perception Dynamics Institute and the University of California San Diego ...

Current AI models fail to recognize 'relational' image similarities, such as how the Earth’s layers are similar to a peach, ...

An optical illusion is a type of puzzle where the viewer perceives the image differently, but the answer is hidden in the ...

One of the most common human gestures, the pointing finger, appears frequently in Old Master paintings as a guiding cue.

It was once believed that mice had relatively poor vision. Turns out mice are far from blind – and studying how their vision ...

One scientist calls them “everyday hallucinations” to describe experiences like believing you hear your name called while you ...

Embodied artificial intelligence (AI) systems are robotic agents that rely on machine learning algorithms to sense their surroundings, plan their actions and execute them. A key aspect of these ...

When Nick Watkins was a child, he pasted articles about space exploration into scrapbooks and drew annotated diagrams of rockets. He knew this because, years later, he still had the scrapbooks, and ...