New miniature virtual reality (VR) goggles provide more immersive experiences for mice living in laboratory settings. By more faithfully simulating natural environments, the researchers can more ...

Just a quick comment about two photos with your In Perspective story “The Four-Year Plan” (Jan. 7, 2009): It’s quite scary to think that the state of Alabama is requiring high school students to take ...

Northwestern University researchers have developed new virtual reality (VR) goggles for mice. Besides just being cute, these miniature goggles provide more immersive experiences for mice living in ...

Bad news, frat boys. (Or good news? I’m not sure.) It turns out, according to a new study, that “beer goggles”—that thing where you get wasted and then you accidentally think that ugly people are hot ...

With the new goggles, researchers should be able to design better experiments to learn how the animals perceive the world. Reading time 2 minutes At last, researchers say they’ve found a way for lab ...

Our nerves’ electrical impulses are created by a class of proteins called ion channels, which let ions flow into and out of cells. But controlling the flow of ions has uses that go well beyond ...

Attractive people are more likely to be perceived as having positive personalities, a new study shows – a phenomenon that has been dubbed 'beauty goggles'. Researchers presented photos of men and ...

Science is late to the party. A new report from Switzerland backs what college coeds have known forever — that drinking beer can make people more sociable and less sexually inhibited. Researchers from ...

Water is wet. The sky is blue. The sun is bright. Okay, no, but the sun is really bright. Really, really bright. “Even when 99 percent of the sun is blocked out by the moon, the amount of light is ...

Northwestern University researchers have developed new virtual reality (VR) goggles for mice. Besides just being cute, these miniature goggles provide more immersive experiences for mice living in ...