A recent study by a team of researchers led by TU Darmstadt has found that tiny amounts of liquid can navigate their way ...

The hippocampal formation generates a cognitive map of a familiar environment that supports the ability of an animal to identify its location, respond to changes in the environment and navigate to ...

T-mazes can be used in a variety of ways to assess the cognitive ability of an animal. The side (goal) arms can contain discriminative stimuli (cues) such as patterns or objects that the animal must ...

Maze has closed a $15 million Series A funding round led by Emergence Capital. The company lets you run user tests at scale so you can get feedback before rolling out a design update or test copy.

Product research generally involves determining whether an idea for a new product might be successful and how to best develop and sell that product. It’s a straightforward process, in theory, but the ...

Trung Phan’s science experiment began with a dare. His boss, Princeton University physicist Robert Austin, challenged him to design a maze that Austin couldn’t solve. To be sure, the challenge was ...

In a grainy film shot at Bell Laboratories in 1952, mathematician and Bell Labs researcher Claude Shannon, SM ’40, PhD ’40, stands beside a machine of his own construction. First built in 1950, it was ...

Maze Therapeutics leverages its Compass platform to translate human genetic insights into de-risked, high-probability drug candidates. MZE829 targets APOL1-mediated kidney disease with a dual ...

Genetically engineered bacteria, rigged up as a distributed computing system, might help realize synthetic biology’s loftier goals. E. coli thrives in our guts, sometimes to unfortunate effect, and it ...

Stephen Burke's drama 'Maze' recounts the real-life story of the 1983 breakout of 38 IRA inmates from a seemingly impregnable Irish prison. By Frank Scheck Prison break movies don’t come much subtler ...

With the digital equivalent of trowels and shovels, archaeologists are digging into the code of early video games to uncover long forgotten secrets that could have relevance today. “You and your team ...