The Victorian palaeontologist Richard Owen incorrectly argued that the human brain was the only brain to contain a small area ...

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Hundreds of cubes of human brain tissue help scientists to chart the energy-making capabilities of various brain regions.

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A study of thousands of people finds that neural connections in the brain start to break down quickly around age 44, but the ...

The human body is one of the most complex and fascinating machines ever studied, yet there’s still so much we don’t ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to ...

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"We still don't know exactly what makes labor start. We know all about the mechanics and physiology, but we don't know what ...

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We asked Mark Mattson, an American neuroscientist who has studied intermittent fasting for the last 25 years, about what goes ...