Video and pictures available from another successful event organised by CNP outreach initiative Ar | Respire connosco.

What are the latest discoveries in neuroscience that can help us understand the brain, consciousness, memory and attention? What practical advice is there on detecting and coping with stress? What is ‘Mindfulness’, why is it important and how does one practice it?

State-of-the-art Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanners will establish Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown (CCU) as one of the most advanced preclinical imaging institutions worldwide.

How a side project became a powerful open-source tool.

What does Bonsai, the Japanese art form of carefully shaping miniature trees have to do with scientific research? For Gonçalo Lopes, a graduate student at Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Bonsai perfectly captures the essence of his doctoral thesis – “just like the art form, the main aesthetics and challenge of our work involve being able to recreate all the complexities of a living landscape in a very confined space.”

Time is represented by a slow wave of sequential activity across neurons within a specific brain area, say Researchers at Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon

The organisers of the Ar programme of events DançAr were invited to join a group who has been working on a very special project called Dancing with Pk, to celebrate International Dance Day 2015.

Dancing with PK started organising dance classes for Parkinson’s patients in late 2014. To celebrate the 2015 International Day of Dance, the team organised an event at the S. Pedro de Alcântara Convent, in Lisbon.

The European Research Council (ERC) awards Champalimaud Research Director Zachary Mainen an Advanced Grant for the sum of 2.5 M Euros.

The newly awarded research grant is the second consecutive ERC advanced grant awarded to Dr. Mainen, representing the first time a researcher working in Portugal receives this award two successive times.

This grant will be dedicated to study how serotonin influences the way we perceive the world and consequently our behaviour.

What are the challenges facing private foundations to promote research? How does the interaction between private foundations and public bodies work to advance science? High-level representatives from both private and public sectors came together to discuss these and other topics, last Wednesday, May 20th.

Scientists at the Molecular Medicine Institute in Lisbon, Portugal, namely, Dr. Domingos Henrique, who leads a research group associated with Champalimaud Research, in collaboration with scientists at the University College London Ear Institute, United Kingdom, have developed a simple and efficient protocol to generate inner ear hair cells, the cells responsible for our hearing and sense of balance.

Last week, on May 28-30, a group of CNP members attended the National Science Communication Conference – SciComPt 2015, in Lagos, Algarve.

The meeting was organised by three Science Centres – Centro Ciência Viva Lagos, Faro and Tavira and counted with Champalimaud Foundation as one of the sponsors.

Similarly to humans, rats offer help without self-benefit, say researchers at Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, in Lisbon, Portugal.

Our social connections and social compass define us to a large degree as human. Indeed, our tendency to act to benefit others without benefit to ourselves is regarded by some as the epitome of human nature and culture. But is it truly a quality unique to humans, or is this apparent virtue common to other species such as rats?