The Education and International Development MA introduces the concepts of development and educational development, and enables students to assess the role of education in the development process by ...

The Pakistan Development Update (PDU) is the World Bank Pakistan flagship report that discusses the latest macroeconomic developments and policy issues that are critical to the country’s long-term ...

Long lines of music lovers formed to hear a piece of history, as a previously unknown Mozart trio received its first public performance. It‘s not often that you can hear new music from Wolfgang ...

Hundreds of scientists and citizen scientists from around the world have mapped out more than 50 million connections in the tiny fruit fly brain, a step toward one day producing an intricate map ...

In the brain of a singular fruit fly, nerve cells weave themselves together, enabling flight, mating, eating, sleeping and every other activity of her fly life. Now, in nine papers published ...

For many heartbreaking diseases of the brain — dementia, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and others — doctors can only treat the symptoms. Medical science does not have a cure. Why? Because it’s difficult to ...

Your brain can’t always tell the difference between a jump scare and a real threat. But what’s thrilling for some people can be harmful for others. Whether you’re in real danger or just ...

The brain is your body’s command center. It powers all of your body’s mechanisms and processes: how you run and dance and figure out a waiter’s tip, your hunger for chocolate or roast ...

"Now that we have this brain map, we can close the loop on which neurons relate to which behaviors," said Dorkenwald. The development could lead to tailored treatments to brain diseases.

Bock thinks the discrepancy could be because the hemibrain fly might have starved while it was still growing, which harmed its brain development. The FlyWire researchers say that much work remains ...

They do each of these things on the basis of sophisticated processing of sound, smell, touch and vision, organised and run by a brain composed of about 140,000 neurons—more than the 300 or so ...