Janelia Farm; north of Route 7 at Janelia Farm Boulevard: Janelia was the creation of Vinton L. Pickens, a professional artist and civic leader, and her husband, author Robert S. Pickens.

Neuroscientists want to understand how individual neurons encode information that allows us to distinguish objects, like ...

Studies suggest allowing your mind to drift can reduce stress, enhance insight and connect the brain’s executive and ...

New research shows your brain may learn complex visual patterns without effort, reward, or feedback -- just by passively ...

New research reveals that the brain may be learning even during unstructured, aimless exploration. By recording activity in ...

Aimlessly wandering around a city or exploring the new mall may seem unproductive, but new research from HHMI's Janelia Research Campus suggests it ...

Imagine you're sitting at a pond, listening to the din of croaking frogs. You want to know how many frogs are in the pond, but you can't pick out the individual croaks—only the combined sound rising ...

In his lab at Janelia, Voigts now plans to investigate how other brain areas involved in navigation, such as the prefrontal cortex, are engaged as mice explore and forage in a more naturalistic ...

Wang, Tillberg, and their collaborators at Janelia and the University of Wisconsin-Madison wanted to see if they could use expansion to overcome mass spectrometry imaging's spatial resolution problem.

The results: In keeping with prior research, male fruit flies who had not yet mated were more drawn to alcohol. Those that consumed methanol showed a marked increase in the levels of pheromones ...

"Einstein said that when he uses his brain, it is like he is using a muscle, and in that respect, there is some parallel here," said Janelia Senior Group Leader Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz.

Now, a new technique developed at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus is allowing scientists to fill in these missing pages and reveal the motion of molecules inside cells like never before.