Neurobiologist Angelo Forli has received the prestigious Career Development Grant from the Giovanni Armenise Harvard Foundation, worth 1 million dollars for a five-year project. The researcher has ...

Millions of people worldwide suffer from hydrocephalus, or a buildup of excess cerebrospinal fluid in the brain, and which recently received greater attention when Billy Joel announced his diagnosis.

How does our brain, which is capable of generating complex thoughts, actions and even self-reflection, grow out of essentially nothing? An experiment in tadpoles, in which an electronic implant was ...