After spending more than four months studying the evolution of the brain, Jim Al-Khalili has never been so sure of its ...

Brain organoids, small structures grown from stem cells, are often described as simplified models of the human brain. They ...

The world, and countless generations of interactions with it, coaxed our brains to evolve in the unique way that humans perceive reality. And yet, thanks to the past century's developments in ...

Modern imaging is contributing significantly to giving us a better understanding of how our brains work. In the long term, this will also help us to treat learning disorders in a more targeted way and ...

Researchers have discovered that parts of the human brain age more slowly than previously thought—particularly in the region that processes touch. By using ultra-high-resolution brain scans, they ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

But researchers were concerned about whether this procedure might have other, less desirable effects. What happens when the right and left sides of the cerebral cortex—responsible for an enormous ...

By studying what other creatures can already achieve, researchers hope to uncover breakthroughs in human medicine and turn ...

The cerebellum, a brain region located at the back of the head that has long been known to support the coordination of muscle ...

Which is why you put off firing an underperforming employee; while your neocortex realizes he’s dragging the rest of your team down, your limbic system hates the thought of confrontation. (Because ...

Brain rot, once internet slang, is now recognized as a cognitive fatigue caused by endless online content, with emerging ...