Mice turning tiny steering wheels to move shapes on a screen have helped scientists produce the first brain-wide map of decision-making at single-cell resolution in a mammal. For decades, most ...

Visualization of 75,000 neurons (colored dots) active across the brain of an adult mouse across different stages of a decision-making task. Dot size reflects a cell’s average firing rate, such that ...

Our cover feature from mid-October explores the rise of PUBG and the making of the next map. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This ...

Russell McLendon is a science writer with expertise in the natural environment, humans, and wildlife. He holds degrees in journalism and environmental anthropology. No matter how green your thumb is, ...

Daniel Kahneman is something of a sage. He is a psychologist, yet he has won the Nobel Prize for Economics. Why? Because he’s demonstrated through experiment and argument that humans are not entirely ...

It is now conventional wisdom that the brain is the seat of the mind; it is alone through the brain's workings that we think and feel and know. Trying to understand how the brain works by looking at ...

This article was originally published in the Jan. 15, 2018 issue of SpaceNews magazine. The European Space Agency team operating the star-mapping Gaia space telescope is preparing for its most ...

Americans inhabit an intricately mapped world. Type “Burger King” into an online box, and Google will cough up a dozen nearby options, each keyed to a precise latitude and longitude. But throughout ...