Scientists discover cold-loving proteins called cryorhodopsins that could help control brain cells with light.

To test this hypothesis, Dr. Jineun Kim (KAIST Ph.D. graduate, now at Caltech) demonstrated during her doctoral research that ...

Starting with the question "How does our brain distinguish glucose from the many nutrients absorbed in the gut?" a KAIST research team has demonstrated that the brain can selectively recognize ...

Imagine the magnificent glaciers of Greenland, the eternal snow of the Tibetan high mountains, and the permanently ice-cold ...

In the frozen reaches of the planet—glaciers, mountaintops, and icy groundwater—scientists have uncovered strange ...

Claims about a brain implant technology that compresses prison sentences into minutes are based on a concept, not actual ...

New brain maps show dueling appetite circuits—one stops eating ... Both projects relied on the modern toolkit of neural biology - optogenetics to fire axons with laser light, chemogenetics to silence ...

Rare blue proteins from cold-adapted microbes can serve as prototypes to design molecular on-off switches for cells ...

Studies have shown that the symptoms of depressive patients avoiding social relationships are not just mood problems, but ...