Human memory is a notoriously multitiered phenomenon. When you recall a moment, you might think of a constellation of details — sounds, sights, and feelings. This implies that experiences are stored ...

A University of Massachusetts Amherst neuroscientist has been awarded a $3.1 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disease and Stroke to advance knowledge on human brain ...

Losing your body from the neck down can be just another one of life’s annoying, but temporary, setbacks — at least for two kinds of rippling, green-tinged sea slugs. That’s the first time anyone has ...

“The brain [of the sea slug] actually gets bigger as the animal grows older and it adds more neurons, which is not true of you and me,” Katz says. “When humans are born, we have more neurons than when ...

Their severed heads get around just fine until they regenerate perfectly functioning, parasite-free new bodies, scientists say. By Annie Roth A few years ago, Sayaka Mitoh, a Ph.D. candidate at Nara ...

Two species of sea slugs can pop off their heads and regrow their entire bodies from the noggin down, scientists in Japan recently discovered. This incredible feat of regeneration can be achieved in ...

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