Study confirms why we need female mice in neuroscience research

Researchers found that female mice, despite ongoing hormonal fluctuations, exhibit exploratory behavior that is more stable than that of their male peers, countering the belief that the hormone cycle in females causes behavioral variation that could throw off results.

Catherine Caruso • harvard
March 8, 2023 ~12 min

Harvard study looks at how cephalopods develop their big brains

How squid and octopus get their big brains.

Juan Siliezar • harvard
Nov. 16, 2022 ~5 min


Progress doesn’t always mean movement, says Harvard study of daily exercise

Research comparing 19th- and 21st-century Americans finds a half-hour decline in physical activity. Blame it on planes, trains, and automobiles.

Juan Siliezar • harvard
Oct. 28, 2021 ~4 min

Challenging the lateral-to-sagittal shift in mammalian locomotion

Harvard study challenges lateral-to-sagittal shift in mammal spine evolution.

Juan Siliezar • harvard
March 15, 2021 ~6 min

Harvard researchers sequence Sapria genome

Sapria genome shows astonishing gene loss and gene theft.

Juan Siliezar • harvard
Jan. 22, 2021 ~8 min

Like humans, crows are more optimistic after making tools to solve a problem

A new paper, co-authored by Dakota McCoy, a graduate student working in the lab of George Putnam Professor of Biology David Haig, suggests that, after using tools, crows were more optimistic.

Peter Reuell • harvard
Aug. 22, 2019 ~7 min

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