Scientists tested bags of pre-washed salad from supermarkets across Europe. In the United Kingdom alone, 16% of the samples ...

Neuropsychologists examine how brain function influences behavior, focusing on cognitive processes rather than labels to ...

I found myself pouring my heart out, not to a human, but to a chatbot named Wysa on my phone. It nodded – virtually – asked me how I was feeling and gently suggested trying breathing exercises. As a ...

Visual artist Maria Lux appears to have answered this call with her exhibition Heart and Mind, Blood and Nerves at the Kenton ...

Everything the brain does—from storing memories to interpreting sights to regulating emotions—requires energy, all produced by cellular organelles called mitochondria.

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to understand what makes our brain different to our closest relatives. Our ...

Climate Our brains are filling with more and more microplastics, study shows A new study shows that microplastics have crossed the blood-brain barrier — and that their concentrations are rising.

Zero, which was invented late in history, is special among numbers. New studies are uncovering how the brain creates something out of nothing.

An international team of researchers and gamers, led by Princeton’s Mala Murthy and Sebastian Seung, mapped every neuron and every synaptic connection in an adult fruit fly's brain, building a ...

The social brain is connected to and in constant communication with a less evolved and older part of the human brain–the amygdala.