Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

Time in space affects the body, but research has found that it can also quite literally affect the mind, prompting questions ...

By tracking brain activity as people listened to a spoken story, researchers found that the brain builds meaning step by step ...

Researchers in Japan built a miniature human brain circuit using fused stem-cell–derived organoids, allowing them to watch the thalamus and cortex interact in real time. They found that the thalamus ...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have characterized how cellular senescence—a biological process in ...

Astronauts are Returning to Earth with Alarming Brain Changes According to New Research ...

A new study from Northwestern University is reshaping how scientists think about brain evolution. The research suggests that ...

Brain development does not end at 25 but continues into the early 30s as neural networks become more efficient and ...

Study Finds , Petting a Dog , Boosts Brain Activity. CNN reports that a recent study took a look at the impact that petting a ...

Stressful study sessions help us pass exams, but curiosity promotes long-term understanding and information retention. In A ...

"Understanding how spaceflight impacts the human brain is crucial as space exploration and tourism expand," a ...