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If you're a morning person, you know how hard it is to function properly late at night. And don't even think of getting a night owl to talk sense at daybreak. Yet our society largely ignores these important differences.
More and more people's working and social lives are blighted by skewed sleep patterns. Is it time for the medical mainstream to take notice of what neuroscientists are learning about the body clock? Alison Abbott reports.
A large-scale effort to uncover the gene-expression profiles of individual neurons and create a demographic atlas of the brain is under way. First data from this project are revealing new information about neuronal development.
Why is the black hole at the centre of our Galaxy so dim, when those in other galaxies can outshine the stars around them? Newly discovered bursts of infrared radiation may give the first clues to what is going on.
Why did ancient flying reptiles have so much processing-power in the back of their brain? To provide highly responsive flight control, is an answer to emerge from an innovative analysis of pterosaur skulls.
Elderly but healthy people are often seriously injured in falls. Exploiting the phenomenon of stochastic resonance, biological physicists have designed a shoe with a vibrating insole that helps maintain balance.
In the brains of anaesthetized animals, neurons create spontaneous patterns of activity that resemble representations of visual stimuli. This finding may change our notions about visual perception.
Grant schemes supporting scientific entrepreneurs have induced job growth in the United States, but they haven't yet crossed the Atlantic, says Eugene Russo.
