While researching a story related to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, I stumbled across an Instagram page featuring recent posts involving massive alien-like sea creatures known as Mola molas. The ...

Research Interests: The primary vision of the Molas lab seeks to understand the neuronal circuits and mechanisms controlling novelty responses and adaptive learning processes with repeated exposures, ...

By placing high-tech satellite tags on molas and collecting tissue samples for genetic and pollutant analysis, Thys and her colleagues hope to uncover the molas' secrets: How did they come to ...

Research Interests: The primary vision of the Molas lab seeks to understand the neuronal circuits and mechanisms controlling novelty responses and adaptive learning processes with repeated exposures, ...