A collaborative French-Swiss study reveals a previously unknown role for astrocytes in the brain's information processing. Dozens of synapses ...

Exercising increases synapses, creates more connections within the brain and helps extra cells to form. Better cardiovascular ...

This year’s version of the much-anticipated annual exhibition takes on memory, forgetting, and how we hold both at once ...

The hormone once associated with hugs and trust is now at the forefront of research on stress, adaptation, and the ...

Our ability to change our lives depends on realizing a fundamental insight: that life and reality are so much more than we ...

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 ...

Millions live with untreated hearing loss, and it's about more than volume. Research shows it rewires the brain in surprising ways. Here are 7 key findings.

For every motor skill you've ever learned, whether it's walking or watchmaking, there is a small ensemble of neurons in your brain that makes that movement happen. Our brains trigger these ...

Following a break from tropical activity, the Atlantic is once again stirring up trouble, and by the middle of next week, AccuWeather suggests a hurricane will impact the Caribbean. “People in the ...

“Today” show host Sheinelle Jones is back on the air and detailed the loss of her husband to brain cancer. Uche Ojeh died in May at the age of 45 from an aggressive form of brain cancer called ...

The National Hurricane Center on Friday continued to track a tropical disturbance that is likely to become the next named tropical storm soon. As of Friday morning the system was in the eastern ...

Picture an apple, any apple. As long as you don’t have aphantasia—the inability to visualize things in your mind’s eye—this suggestion triggers brain activity that’s surprisingly similar to what ...