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  1. Ramping up motivation

    Scientists have revealed how two parts of the brain’s frontal cortex work together to motivate goal-directed behaviour.

  2. Vulnerable cancer cells

    A genetic screen reveals genes that some ovarian cancer cells require to survive a period of inactivity.

  3. Understanding consciousness

    A mathematical framework provides new insights into how information is processed in the brain when consciousness is lost due to anaesthesia or brain injury.

  4. Hunting the elusive axo-axonic cell

    A new technique for specifically labelling a rare type of interneuron sheds light on their distribution and connectivity in the brain.

  5. A picture is worth more than one word

    The brain’s visual areas independently process rich levels of information from a scene to help identify objects while retaining other details.

  6. Breaking a sweat

    A heat-sensitive ion channel known as TRPV4 helps regulate sweating in mice, a finding that offers insights into human sweat disorders.

  7. Running scared

    Pavlovian fear conditioning triggers active fear responses as well as freezing.

  8. Immobilizing pancreatic cancer

    A protein known as CYRI-B is required for cancer cells to spread in a mouse model of pancreatic cancer.
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