Mothers of the most solitary great ape plan and structure playdates, even when it comes at a cost

Faini et al. develop CLOK, a method that labels neurons across a spectrum of colors according to when they were born, allowing successive generations of brain cells to be tracked as they take shape in...

How much of the way a brain works reflects fundamental principles shared across species—and how much has been shaped by the particular environments and behaviors a species has […]

Assistant Professor - Systems Neurophysiology

Comparative studies are essential for uncovering shared and divergent biological principles. Insects, with their extraordinary diversity, rich natural histories, and increasing experimental tractabil…

Just like all previous summers since the pandemic began, COVID-19 cases are ticking up again, even while other health threats make more headlines.

Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences directly laid off 75 staff across its social sciences units last week — nearly one-third of employees covered by the restructuring and more than twice the…

Spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs) maintain male fertility, but how their clonal dynamics change with age remains poorly understood. Here, we use in vivo CRISPR barcoding in zebrafish to label SSCs and ...

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Functional heterogeneity of dorsal raphe nucleus is not fully understood. Here authors show topographically organized sensory and locomotor responses from the zebrafish dorsal raphe and its forebrain ...

Why do animals respond differently to the same social situation? According to new research from the MCB lab of Florian Engert, the answer may depend as much on […]

By altering the definition of the word "harm" as used by the Endangered Species Act, the Trump administration may limit how wildlife is protected in the United States. Environmental groups are suing.

A major medical breakthrough, interrupted

Entomology; Biophysics; Complex systems

About 1 million insect species have been described, but a new analysis suggests tens of millions more may be out there

Harpo Marx — the "silent" Marx brother — can finally be heard speaking in a live album of recently recovered material, which was recorded just six months before he died in 1964.

Homosexual behavior among bonobos and other animals - 1500 species at least - is becoming a vibrant field of study for modern academics.

Are smartphones causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since the iPhone was introduced nearly two decades ago.