The facility’s institutional review board failed to report a 2021 incident and “serious and ongoing noncompliance” by a principal investigator, according to a letter released by the federal agency this week. SourceSource: Spectrum News

We found an issue with a specific type of brain imaging study and tried to share it with the field. Then the backlash began. SourceSource: Spectrum News

Technological advancements have made it possible to study animals in more natural settings, but researchers are debating what that really means and whether natural is always better. SourceSource: Spectrum News

The link reported in prior studies likely reflects confounding factors, which sibling-matched controls in the new work address. SourceSource: Spectrum News

The U.S. National Institutes of Health wants to regulate research involving cephalopods. But there aren’t enough rigorous studies to base the regulations on, veteran cephalopod researchers say. SourceSource: Spectrum News

The retraction follows an editorial expression of concern that the journal applied to the paper in October, seven months after it was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. SourceSource: Spectrum News

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator discusses what drew him to study the brain and his current work at the University of California, San Francisco. SourceSource: Spectrum News

Activity in the tiny brain region helps submissive rodents learn to avoid aggressors, and aggressive mice to curb their attacks, according to two recent studies. SourceSource: Spectrum News

The award-winning researcher’s discoveries have changed the way we think about the brain; that’s exactly what her critics dislike. SourceSource: Spectrum News

The cerebellum swelled in size before flight evolved among modern birds’ dinosaur ancestors, according to a new comparison of fossilized skulls and living birds. SourceSource: Spectrum News