Planarians, small flatworms less than a centimeter long, have a rich and controversial history in the science of memory. It all began in 1955, when biopsychologist James McConnell and his colleague ...

Researchers demonstrated that the microscopic worm C. elegans uses a retrotransposon called Cer1 to transfer a learned behavior (avoidance of a pathogenic bacterium) between worms. In earlier work, ...

It's the kind of study science fiction dreams are made of: A team of neurobiologists at UCLA successfully "transplanted" a memory from the nervous system of one snail into another. It's the kind of ...