None of us would get on a plane that had its parts changed in mid-air, says Eve Marder, who has spent her career probing a very specific cluster of crustacean nerve cells. Yet we are all walking around undergoing a constant turnover of cellular parts, and so are the lobsters and crabs Marder studies.

This newly created ethylene-based material has shape memory that allows self-healing!

A new study shows that mice who learn to find goals in virtual reality use their hippocampus the same was as in the real world.