Tag: Animals

  • Nation & World

    Big brains better for birds

    As you might guess, big-brained birds survive better in the wild than those less cerebral for their size. Scientists guessed that too, but they had to prove it to themselves.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Nanowire arrays can detect signals along individual neurons

    Opening a whole new interface between nanotechnology and neuroscience, scientists at Harvard University have used slender silicon nanowires to detect, stimulate, and inhibit nerve signals along the axons and dendrites of live mammalian neurons.

    3 minutes