Using virtual reality experiments, Harvard neuroscientists have decoded how fruit fly brains integrate visual cues for navigation. Study also sheds light on a form of short-term memory known as unsupervised learning.

Jazz improvisation may get musicians into a flow state and improve cognitive flexibility, researchers report.

A new system can locate shooters through video and audio from 3 smartphones, which could help protect human rights workers and journalists.

Prior exposure to DDT pollution may explain the higher rate of diabetes among immigrants to the United States from India, say researchers.

"Kids are more susceptible to air pollution than adults, yet they're breathing in bus fumes twice a day, every school day."

Same-sex behavior in animals is not only "not costly" from a natural selection perspective, but it also may have important benefits.

Team of researchers including MIT Professor Angela Koehler obtains $5.8 million grant to study fusion-positive alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma.

With increasingly advanced data, Michael McDonald and colleagues study a galaxy cluster bursting with new stars.

The effectiveness of non-mechanical, low-energy methods for moderating temperature and humidity has been evaluated in a series of experiments by researchers from the University of Cambridge.

Among patients with Down syndrome, lorazepam and electroconvulsive therapy both resulted in reduced behavioral symptoms of catatonia over time.