Scientists have confirmed that spaceflight forces the brain to shift and stretch, a discovery that could change how we ...

On Monday, Jan. 12, findings published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) revealed that ...

A massive international brain study has revealed that memory decline with age isn’t driven by a single brain region or gene, ...

A study revealing the presence of microplastics in various parts of the human body has been successively published, but the ...

Does string theory—the controversial “theory of everything” from physics—tell us anything about consciousness and the human ...

A landmark international study that pooled brain scans and memory tests from thousands of adults has shed new light on how ...

Synaptic plasticity allows brains to learn, adapt, and rewire. It’s foundational to memory, problem-solving, and complex ...

A new study found that fixing energy balance in the brain reversed symptoms of advanced Alzheimer’s in mice.  Researchers ...

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the brain processes visual information for over a century. The development ...

Study shows alpha brain wave frequency shapes how the brain integrates touch and vision to create the feeling that your body ...

Adderall, Ritalin and other stimulants prescribed for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder seem to work on brain areas ...

Weizmann Institute researchers say that progesterone and the stress hormone cortisol drive circadian rhythms; when out of ...