Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory is in stores and getting fantastic reviews (including an Editor's Choice award from @Play). Ubisoft's Montreal development studio is basking in the glow of the accolades, ...

Brain cell signals travel along axons, the thin wire-like extensions of neurons, moving signals along the membrane in a pearl-like shape.

Some people have such a hectic existence they give the impression that, in order to fit it all in, they must be paying someone else to do their sleeping for them. One such is Siddhartha Mukherjee. His ...

In a previous post, I described the 1873 discovery by Camillo Golgi of a method to visualize neurons and his decades-long debate with co-Nobelist Santiago Ramón y Cajal, which led to our current ...