The theme we have chosen for this gift guide is transportation, a vast and thriving sector that is the backbone of human civilization, facilitating the movement of goods and connecting markets. Not ...

New psychoactive substances, originally developed as potential analgesics but abandoned due to adverse side effects, may ...

For the first time, scientists have resolved extremely intense tropical cyclones and their effect on the ocean carbon cycle ...

Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?

NASA is helping shape the future of urban air travel with a new simulation that will manage how electric air taxis and drones ...

From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run ...

We conclude that brain states are shaped by local circuit mechanisms, large-scale connectivity and neuromodulation. A unified multiscale theory of cortical dynamics is relevant not only for ...

This correspondence between brain state and brain responsiveness (statedependent responses) is outlined at different scales from the cellular and circuit level, to the mesoscale and macroscale level.