Worms don’t like the blues. At least not the blue-tinged toxic bacteria that are common in the environments where they live. But how does a bacteria-foraging worm — without eyes, photoreceptors, or the opsin genes that help animals perceive color — know...
In the past two decades, researchers have shown that biological traits in both species and individual cells can be shaped by the environment and inherited even without gene mutations, an outcome that contradicts one of the classical interpretations of...
Our brains respond differently when talking to a person from a different socioeconomic group than during a conversation with someone of a similar background, a novel new imaging study shows.
While neuroscientists have used brain imaging scans to track in...
Yale’s Daniel Colón-Ramos and Enrique De La Cruz have been named as two of the 100 most inspiring Hispanic/Latinx scientists in America by Cell Mentor, an online professional resource for scientists created by Cell Press.
In honor of National Hispanic...
Why people perceive motion in some static images has mystified not only those who view these optical illusions but neuroscientists who have tried to explain the phenomenon. Now Yale neuroscientists have found some answers in the eyes of flies, they report...
Three Yale researchers are among 30 pairs of scientists awarded grants to study the molecular origins of neurodegenerative diseases, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative announced Aug. 19.
The $4.5 million initiative is designed to foster collaborations between...
Holding a thought in mind is one of the human brain’s most remarkable tricks. Now researchers will take a closer look at how our brains evolved to accomplish this feat, thanks to a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to an international team of...